What might be good for Google might not fit into Apples culture as seamlessly.Just because x% time works at Google doesn't mean its a great idea for Apple.
Everyday it seems that Tim's main mission is to make Apple more like any other tech company, rather leveraging what makes Apple unique. Their half-assed "me-to" nexus 7 clone aka ipad mini is the best example of this to date.
Forget the silly-assed side projects. Fix OSX.
As long as it has the Apple logo it is going to sell and sell well.
Forget the silly-assed side projects. Fix OSX.
I've kind of been wondering if the C-level moves were to open up the field for the next level(s) down to crave out some space to shine. This would seem to be another move in the same direction. Will it work, no idea without more info or time. It really could go either way.
To me it seems like a good transition plan for finding the right people to replace the top brass when the time comes.
May help Google in what way? By completely taking our privacy from us? Give me a break. Apple is one of the few where you know what the deal is. I commend Apple for having this initiative for it actually may help Apple in their good innovation trail, not spying on internet and mobile phone users like Google.
I think their special project should be debugging Maps.
Answer this for me please:
What has Google taken from you that Apple has not, and what proof do you have that Google spy on your internet and mobile phone activities?
Lets put it this way:
Google takes the following details, anonymously, and they use it to serve up adverts - note that at no point do they pass these details to 3rd parties:
- Browsing activity within the Google sites (e.g search results, YouTube plays, etc)
- Generic stuff that EVERY site notes down (e.g browser, OS, IP, approx. Location)
Other than that - nothing else is used. They dont read your friggin emails, and dont sit there spying on you.
Now, lets look at Apple's iAds.
Funnily enough, they use the exact same information as Google. So does Bing, Yahoo and just about every damn website in the world.
This 'Google is stealing my data' talk is pure crap.
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Apple is allowing a small group of employees to spend up to two weeks working on projects outside their standard job responsibilities. This was originally reported by the Wall Street Journal's Jessica Lessin, by way of Business Insider.
We don't have too many details for how the program, reportedly nicknamed "Blue Sky", works. It may allow employees to spend time on their own projects, or if they could be temporarily assigned to other working groups within Apple.
Update: Lessin's full Wall Street Journal article is now live. Lessin focuses on how the corporate culture is changing at Apple since Tim Cook took over as CEO, noting that Cook has been more accepting of sabbaticals, has praised employees at Apple's media events, and that the company is more frequently giving counteroffers to employees considering posts at other companies.
Article Link: Apple Allowing Select Employees to Devote Time to Special Projects [Updated]
Steve Jobs would have done this under his rule if this idea had any merit. Tim Cook, you may very well be the next Ballmer.
Well their stock seems to be taking a ****...get the Steve Jobs military formula back and keep making that $$$
I wonder if this has to do with the hordes of employees who have been leaving Apple recently. Tons of Apple designers I follow on Twitter have been recently leaving.
Answer this for me please:
What has Google taken from you that Apple has not, and what proof do you have that Google spy on your internet and mobile phone activities?
Lets put it this way:
Google takes the following details, anonymously, and they use it to serve up adverts - note that at no point do they pass these details to 3rd parties:
- Browsing activity within the Google sites (e.g search results, YouTube plays, etc)
- Generic stuff that EVERY site notes down (e.g browser, OS, IP, approx. Location)
Other than that - nothing else is used. They dont read your friggin emails, and dont sit there spying on you.
Now, lets look at Apple's iAds.
Funnily enough, they use the exact same information as Google. So does Bing, Yahoo and just about every damn website in the world.
This 'Google is stealing my data' talk is pure crap.
Google has actually been convicted to pay a $22 million fine because they circumventing privacy settings both in Safari and in Internet Explorer. And this wasn't some programming error, because they used two different techniques for both browsers, which are both not used on other browsers.
They most certainly do get the rights. In their employee contract there is likely a clause that says anything 'invented' on the campus belongs to the company. The author will get small compensation.
My undergraduate school owned the rights to your senior project and had publishing rights to it. Even if you wanted to publish it, you couldn't as it wasn't technically your own.
If you read the coverage, you'd know it wasn't a "programming error", it was a bug fix gone wrong. Google were basically trying to fix the +1 button for ads. The programmer who "fixed" it, circumvented the privacy settings using legitimate javascript. It just ended up biting them in the ass.
Yeh right, so they weren't collecting everyone's WiFi traffic from their street view cars
Google makes all their money from marketing so tracks you and collects as much information about you as they possibly can to sell to their marketing clients. All the search companies work the same way, data harvesting is big business for them so every search, every YouTube video you watch, every time you use maps its all cataloged, profiled and sold.
Last year, in a session of Apple's internal management program Apple University, officials discussed how the company is in some ways more like the military than a traditional corporation, according to a person who was told about the presentation.
well, this is still the case
What a Google apologist.
They circumvented user privacy settings in _two_ browsers. Using different methods. Sure they fixed a bug. But the bug wasn't that a "+1" button didn't work