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Apple Kills Off Chomp App Discovery Services for Android
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This isn't a key feature like that, nor did google pay anything to Apple for the service. If the headline was "Apple spends $50 million on advertising for Google and Android" all the people saying Apple is evil would have a completely different reaction. That's essentially what continuing the service would be for Google, millions in free advertising.
Why is everyone complaining. It's about market share and business. Apple believes they can rather focus their iOS developers on enhancing their own products. Not a bad move.
If they would buy adobe for instance they'd have to keep offering versions for the PC market or the antitrust would know on the doors.
No one cares about small apps.
The only difference between Apple and Google is:
Apple sells us insanely great and simple products.
Google sells us.
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Hmm yeah, Windows is passable and half baked OS so far so it does games much better than OSX, it does have much more software, hardware support and developers.
And beside FCP, Aperture or Adobe there are only a few handful worthy apps out there which made for OSX. Microsoft actively develop Office for Mac, while Apple doesn't do the same for iWork. For normal users, there's no thing OSX can do that Windows already could. Average Mac users just trying to be special, unique and different
In fact, Lion is much more half baked OS compared to Windows7. Really sucks for games and It runs hotter than SL and Bootcamp. It crash on me more often than SL did. It eats up RAM like crazy and forcing a "resume" feature which not everyone would like to have. What a perfect OS huh?
Back to topic .. I dont really mind about Apple or any company buying small time apps, Google, Apple does that everyday. It's capitalism and free competition. But if I were Apple I wouldnt plug off support for Android, instead I'd use it to promote Apple on PlayStore. "Chomp by Apple" surely could even lure people to buy iOS hardware. Safari and iTunes for Windows were one of few reasons I bought a Mac computer.
Hmm yeah, Windows is passable and half baked OS so far so it does games much better than OSX, it does have much more software, hardware support and developers.
And beside FCP, Aperture or Adobe there are only a few handful worthy apps out there which made for OSX. Microsoft actively develop Office for Mac, while Apple doesn't do the same for iWork. For normal users, there's no thing OSX can do that Windows already could. Average Mac users just trying to be special, unique and different
In fact, Lion is much more half baked OS compared to Windows7. Really sucks for games and It runs hotter than SL and Bootcamp. It crash on me more often than SL did. It eats up RAM like crazy and forcing a "resume" feature which not everyone would like to have. What a perfect OS huh?
Back to topic .. I dont really mind about Apple or any company buying small time apps, Google, Apple does that everyday. It's capitalism and free competition. But if I were Apple I wouldnt plug off support for Android, instead I'd use it to promote Apple on PlayStore. "Chomp by Apple" surely could even lure people to buy iOS hardware. Safari and iTunes for Windows were one of few reasons I bought a Mac computer.
Yes, Lion crashed a lot when it came out but it's fine now.
You can disable the "resume" feature, no one's forcing it on you.
And how does gaming make an OS any more or less baked?
Since when does the "average" user need to play games?
Aside from Adobe, Office, FCP and Aperture, what other apps do you exactly need? Who cares what Apple does with iWork.. if it works for you then you use it, otherwise use Office.
Still complaining? Boot Camp/Parallels your lovely copy of Windows and run Office there. Last I checked, Windows can't do that.
Here's a huge thing the "average" users you mentioned care about.
No hassles, no maintenance and a user experience that doesn't make them feel stupid.
When I was exclusive to PC's I was maintaining that thing all the time. I can't remember the last time I had to do anything on my Mac other than click "Install" on Software Update.
Lol.. Average user dont need games? Tell that to iPhone/iPad users where games sells a lot. OSX does not get a good and new game (except for diablo3 in coming month) nor support it any better than even iOS, let alone windows. Average users do games.
Hmm windows have VMware if you want to be so pedantic about virtual machine capabilities on Windows.
Funny. I bring in my iMac twice within first year for display problem, the second was for crashed OS which happens to be a gpu failure. My old Pentium4 pc at least had been fine for the last 6 years
Please stop Apple is perfect attitude. Mac fails just as much as "the other side" and OSX is not as secure as you want to imagine. Only thing that I still happy with Apple is their excellent service support and AppleCare compared to other pc companies. Outside those, Mac repair and maintenance always cost you arms and legs. Just wait until your precious Macbook run out of warranty and lost its logic board or GPU. You'd hate them for life to make you pay absurd amount for it.
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Given Google makes more money from iPhones,iPads,iPods than it does from Android that would harm them more than Apple. It would also be seen as a highly anti-competitive move and would likely see legal action by the government.
So, not thats not even close to happening.
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You mean like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc are doing too ?????
Yes and no.
Choice is not always a good thing. People have the choice to buy bad products or run up credit card debts or infect their own computers with viruses/maleware/trojans. Not smart choices and the people who eliminate these bad choices from people's options are great in my books.
If google pulled the plug of search etc from iOS the users would hurt. But google would hurt too. Lots of revenue there lost. Google is on iOS for it's own benefit not ours. We just are lucky to also benefit.
"Irrational thinkers, ie; blind Apple fanbase is a serious problem."
I remember a quote from Steve Jobs:
Yada yada you know the whole speech. The point? Irrational or crazy thinkers are not bad. They are just different. And we all need to respect this.
childish
Now that the crying has stopped and having removed my self from the floor of which I was rolling in hysterical laughter.
Personally I wish Google which I like as a company did remove Maps, please Google oh pretty please remove that useless app that Apple should have moved on from years ago. Its a broken app that is so limited its not even funny any more. I am not blaming Google at all, I blame Apple for not moving on from it and creating a UI that either uses the data but to its full potential or buying with their trillion dollars a small company that can put out a good built in map application. Plenty of GPS based applications that do a great job so why this old tired app?
The company they bought is about finding apps, so its not like Google can't find or built an alternative, not everyone is using the app on Android devices or did I miss the memo where it says Google must have or company fold and closes shop.
Just incase your Google search is not working on your Android phone?
http://alternativeto.net/software/chompapp/
Your welcome, cheers.
Mail, really do you even understand what pop3 and SMTP are?
Now that the crying has stopped and having removed my self from the floor of which I was rolling in hysterical laughter.
Personally I wish Google which I like as a company did remove Maps, please Google oh pretty please remove that useless app that Apple should have moved on from years ago. Its a broken app that is so limited its not even funny any more. I am not blaming Google at all, I blame Apple for not moving on from it and creating a UI that either uses the data but to its full potential or buying with their trillion dollars a small company that can put out a good built in map application. Plenty of GPS based applications that do a great job so why this old tired app?
The company they bought is about finding apps, so its not like Google can't find or built an alternative, not everyone is using the app on Android devices or did I miss the memo where it says Google must have or company fold and closes shop.
Just incase your Google search is not working on your Android phone?
http://alternativeto.net/software/chompapp/
Your welcome, cheers.
Mail, really do you even understand what pop3 and SMTP are?
This is not Sparta! There are tons of search engines its just that Google for now is very good at what it does, and well its their bread and butter.
Inovation is fine, just make sure SOPA or what ever they are calling it now never happens that will be an innovation killer.
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Lol.. Average user dont need games? Tell that to iPhone/iPad users where games sells a lot. OSX does not get a good and new game (except for diablo3 in coming month) nor support it any better than even iOS, let alone windows. Average users do games.
Hmm windows have VMware if you want to be so pedantic about virtual machine capabilities on Windows.
Funny. I bring in my iMac twice within first year for display problem, the second was for crashed OS which happens to be a gpu failure. My old Pentium4 pc at least had been fine for the last 6 years
Please stop Apple is perfect attitude. Mac fails just as much as "the other side" and OSX is not as secure as you want to imagine. Only thing that I still happy with Apple is their excellent service support and AppleCare compared to other pc companies. Outside those, Mac repair and maintenance always cost you arms and legs. Just wait until your precious Macbook run out of warranty and lost its logic board or GPU. You'd hate them for life to make you pay absurd amount for it.
Your Apple products must have gremlins in them. Please take notice and call your local Ghost Buster exterminators.
I have only once in 15 years had an Apple product not functions as expected and when it did, Macbook Pro, I took it back and received with little fan fare or excuses a brand new one. End of story. Now get your self back to Dell and live in true Utopia, I know I do since I make a ton of money dealing with Win world problems.
I for one am Glad Apple products do not rule the corporate world, after all money is very important to me.Then we wouldn't have to worry about this post or any other apple related news would we?
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Then we wouldn't have to worry about this post or any other apple related news would we? And you wouldn't have made such a dumb question.
Your Apple products must have gremlins in them. Please take notice and call your local Ghost Buster exterminators.
I have only once in 15 years had an Apple product not functions as expected and when it did, Macbook Pro, I took it back and received with little fan fare or excuses a brand new one. End of story. Now get your self back to Dell and live in true Utopia, I know I do since I make a ton of money dealing with Win world problems.
Ouchh, wow .. I paid premium price for my Mac just to find out there are gremlins inside them. Wow I thought OSX is the safest OS on earth. Yeah I called Ghostbusters and luckily they sort it out so far
Thank God though Apple Genius and technician is 1000x nicer than you
Excellent service and attitude made me able to endure and tolerate problems which overcome my Mac.I enjoy and love Apple products just as the girl next door. But reading people praising OSX as perfect environment and bashing Windows completely is just a funny frivolity.
I personally respect and admire what Microsoft has achieved with Windows 7. There are no more constant maintenace or problems some Mac fanatics seem to claim for a looong time.
It is pointless to attempt to have a discussion with someone like that. They are one of hundreds who have earned the right to be put on ignore by macrumors users.
Ouchh, wow .. I paid premium price for my Mac just to find out there are gremlins inside them. Wow I thought OSX is the safest OS on earth. Yeah I called Ghostbusters and luckily they sort it out so far
Thank God though Apple Genius and technician is 1000x nicer than you
I enjoy and love Apple products just as the girl next door. But reading people praising OSX as perfect environment and bashing Windows completely is just a funny frivolity.
The mere existence of AppleCare and Apple Geniuses are proof enough that Macs aren't perfect. I guess some people have just had completely perfect experiences with their makes and this deludes them from the reality of others experiences on any other platform.
I gladly use Bing already because of Bing rewards. Free Microsoft Points for Xbox just for searching? Thank you! At least with Bing Microsoft makes me feel like their customer and not their product (I'm looking at you Google, though your Zerg Rush joke was pretty awesome).
And their search always gets me to the pages I'm looking for, so no worries there either.
Hmm yeah, Windows is passable and half baked OS so far so it does games much better than OSX, it does have much more software, hardware support and developers.
And beside FCP, Aperture or Adobe there are only a few handful worthy apps out there which made for OSX. Microsoft actively develop Office for Mac, while Apple doesn't do the same for iWork. For normal users, there's no thing OSX can do that Windows already could. Average Mac users just trying to be special, unique and different
In fact, Lion is much more half baked OS compared to Windows7. Really sucks for games and It runs hotter than SL and Bootcamp. It crash on me more often than SL did. It eats up RAM like crazy and forcing a "resume" feature which not everyone would like to have. What a perfect OS huh?
Back to topic .. I dont really mind about Apple or any company buying small time apps, Google, Apple does that everyday. It's capitalism and free competition. But if I were Apple I wouldnt plug off support for Android, instead I'd use it to promote Apple on PlayStore. "Chomp by Apple" surely could even lure people to buy iOS hardware. Safari and iTunes for Windows were one of few reasons I bought a Mac computer.
Saying Lion eats up RAM like crazy is misconstruing the actual behavior. It's more correct to say Lion caches things to RAM like crazy, but is happy to relinquish cached space when more active memory is required. This allows for faster access to those cached services but does come with a slight tradeoff when you must quickly clear a bunch of pages to load in completely new information.
Those services are usually left as is. Apple tends to heavily integrate and absorb services it purchases.
That's what Apple needs to do. Buy all the good services and be the only one with reliable and quality apps. Is the Apps that drive Apple always to the top. I remember when Steve didn't saw that clearly and the power of unity between the developers make the change that today put iOS where is standing now.
If Apple just buy the best of the best then windows Phone and Android can fight each other for crap and Apple will be the best of them all!
(devilish laugh) HA HA HA A AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
If Apple just buy the best of the best then windows Phone and Android can fight each other for crap and Apple will be the best of them all!
(devilish laugh) HA HA HA A AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
That's hilarious - you very likely have the post typed out and ready to post, whatever the posts before you say.
Because there was only *one* post above yours - not "some", one - that might be "very... telling" as per your post.
Judging from half the users on MacRumors, it is that easy
Seriously, every time Apple is mentioned here teaming up or partnering up with another company for anything. It will be asked
that used to be the case but since Apple has gone with iAds they now sell both good products and us.