Comments on: Is Google Apple…or Microsoft? Neither, I Hope!

By: tom b

tom b — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:04:24 +0000

“Google seem to copy Apple and Microsoft all over the place. They just make their versions web based”

True, which COULD be “innovative enough”. Time will tell

Google will have a hard time beating the ease-of-use; dev tools; and HW integration you see from Apple..

They’ll have no trouble at all beating MSFT is every category. People don’t use MSFT for the sake of quality; they use MSFT products out of false economy, or because the IT drone MAKES them. But, since the MSFT ecosphere is largely coercive, moving people into the 21st century will be slow for Google. Apple’s been working on that task for about 25 years and they still are below 10% worldwide market share.

By: william

william — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:18:45 +0000

Google is now a huge public company. It would be very surprising to find that they do not start to suffer from some of the same problems that have plagued every other huge public company.

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By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:59:22 +0000

Google seem to copy Apple and Microsoft all over the place. They just make their versions web based, and in some cases such as GMail, they make a better product, other such as Google Docs are inferior. Others such as Google Maps, take off because they are free. I remember using mapping software for Windows 3.1, hardly a new idea there! It’s just the implementation that is new.
I would rather Google concentrated on making it’s existing products better, rather than trying to dominate the world !

By: coldbrew

coldbrew — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:39:20 +0000

McCracken: I’m curious about how a new protocol based on HTTP and XMPP, designed specifically with federation as a core principle (minimizes potential for lock-in), and where an open-source implementation will be released at, or near, launch sounds “Microsoftian” in any way. Is there a specific MS project to which you are referring? Azure? Silverlight? ODF standards? HTML5? CSS?

By: AJ

AJ — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:16:56 +0000

@Simon, maps is through an acquisition as well. Google did not develop it on their own (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Development_history)

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By: James

James — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:21:21 +0000

All in all hopefully they put out a good product. we will see though

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By: T

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:41:45 +0000

This ism’t about products this is abiut business udeas. 98 percent of Google’s revenues come from one business: search advertising.It’s a he’ll of a first act, but they have yet to find a second.