Wow, for a marketing or sales guys this is a big boost for them. Leeches love google for sure. lol
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Wow, for a marketing or sales guys this is a big boost for them. Leeches love google for sure. lol
Lesser of two evils when attached to GMS and the best of the lot without GMS.
Better yet can apple engineers type in "topless girls on the beach" and bring up all the topless girls on the beach pictures from all users? #
A quick GOOGLE search tells me otherwise. In fact EU copyright length is basically the same as it is in America,
I was curious by your claim because it left the door open for art to be locked away forever with nobody ever able to use it again if an artist and their lineage died out. That seemed unlikely.
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What business school teaches you to charge for products based on how much money you have in the bank?
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That apple didn't name apple pay apple wallet. Seems his point was pretty obvious.
Did you mean to write "unless you don't mind" instead of "as long as"?
Personally, as for Google or Apple showing me targeted ads via an automated system, I like it. Spam detection is also automated, and I like that too (although sometimes it catches things it shouldn't).
I have no problem with a machine figuring out that I've uploaded pictures of Playa del Carmen, and then later on when a machine sees that I'm searching for flights to Cancun, showing me ads for condos in Playacar instead of ads for tires or diapers.
Such smarter, more contextual searches are the future. Apple knows this, too, and has filed for patents as strange as figuring out our mood from what we do on our devices, and tailoring ads to fit that mood. Credit card issuers know it too, and have been exploring the idea of selling realtime recommendations based on our past spending history. (E.g. they know, more than any other source, exactly what restaurants and spending levels we usually favor.)
Of course, if this extra automated help worries someone, then they should use and pay for different photo services, that's all. They're not required to use it.
I hope that it means that App data will now be backed up as well.
A big issue with Android and "switching devices" is that individual app data can only be backed up via 3rd party backup tools, many requiring root.
Google currently only backs up your settings, and as of Lollipop, at least backsup the "look" of your homescreens with what programs were installed and where they were located. Makes a fresh start easier. But you still lose all the data inside the apps themselves.
A big issue with Android and "switching devices" is that individual app data can only be backed up via 3rd party backup tools, many requiring root.
Google currently only backs up your settings, and as of Lollipop, at least backsup the "look" of your homescreens with what programs were installed and where they were located. Makes a fresh start easier. But you still lose all the data inside the apps themselves.
Once again Google Copies Apple. From Apple pay to the way photos and their OS functions. When will Google and Samsung have a thought of their own?
I couldn't care less who copies who as long as the product keeps getting better. Especially when it's not platform-specific. The Google Photos app is way better than anything Apple has right now. If it pushes Apple to put out a better product with more (free) storage then great.
In other words, Google lets advertisers foot the bill. Smart. Advertisers are going to display ads anyway, so why not get something in return.
The different business model, is that Apple has an extra hundred billion dollars in the bank from charging premium prices, partly due to a pretext of giving "more privacy". Some of that surcharge could be used to pay for services that would otherwise be paid for by advertising.
Of course, Apple isn't really that private. Not only does Apple sell anonymous slots for iAds (just like Google does), but they also get paid by banks to let all the usual info flow through to them via Apple Pay (instead of being withheld as with the original Google Wallet or other private wallets).
Moreover, Apple gets over a billion dollars a year from Google as kickback for being the default iOS search engine, AND sharing what Google gets from selling ad space to be seen by iOS users. In other words, Apple is sharing directly in the profits made by selling their iOS users as a product to Google's advertisers.
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Are you aware that this app is the same Google+ Photos app that was released before Apple Photos?
When people will investigate a little or read the threads before writing claims like yours?
Apple Photos has been in the works for quite a while. Maybe you should research just cuz Google dumped it out early doesn't mean they were first.
Apple does not take from Google, they take form Jailbreakers. Again just cuz Google pooped it out first does not mean they thought of it first.
Google = Copy paste
They've now copied each other, which is fine.
I like that Android is using "Pay", and Apple has renamed "Passbook" to "Wallet".
Now they're both basically aligned the same way, which will make it easier for users:
- Wallet = container for cards and coupons
- Pay = a purchase action
durrr
Google is the modern Windows, copy paste
You must not pay attention. When the first Google phone was made it looked like BlackBerry... then iPhone launched... Google phone scrapped... a few years later.. shocker it looked just like an iPhone.. copy paste.... From that point forward... copy paste... add some changes, copy paste, add some changes.... the root of Android and Google's obsession to copy is Apple. I guess it is flattery.
I take it you're going to blatantly ignore anything that went the other way, right?