Good, and the battle goes on....... Just more confusion to what we already have. Hopefully, we will come out the winner, and not the whiner.
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Google Developing Web-Based iTunes Competitor, Acquires Simplify Media for Android Me
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Sorry but Simplify Media was a great idea with spotty implementation. Try streaming from a library with over 8000 tracks and see how it takes over an hour to update the library data before you can play a track. I stopped using it a while ago. Honestly, sync and change and get more capacity each revision, but OTA streaming of music catalogs is unnecessary, network dependent and straining, relies too much on having a consistent signal which isn't easy while driving. Not to mention the battery drain of streaming.
Apple won't outspend google. Apple could do so, but they won't.
Google wants to be every thing to every one every where. To do so, gioogle (1) copies Apple, (2) outspends apple, (3) mocks apple, only to wait to see what apple does to re-start the cycle again.
Apple wants to be the best at what it does. Then every one copies, mocks and sues them. Oh well...
Meanwhile, some folks actually enjoy the apple idev and macs... not giving a dam about google and their friends, but using their products when convenient.
It is easy to enjoy technology now-a-days... for some of us that is.
Google wants to be every thing to every one every where. To do so, gioogle (1) copies Apple, (2) outspends apple, (3) mocks apple, only to wait to see what apple does to re-start the cycle again.
Apple wants to be the best at what it does. Then every one copies, mocks and sues them. Oh well...
Meanwhile, some folks actually enjoy the apple idev and macs... not giving a dam about google and their friends, but using their products when convenient.
It is easy to enjoy technology now-a-days... for some of us that is.
Engadget has said it perfectly.
"We'd like to take this moment, as our Managing Editor Nilay Patel would like to ask the world at large how is this any different than Web TV ?"
"We'd like to take this moment, as our Managing Editor Nilay Patel would like to ask the world at large how is this any different than Web TV ?"
Maybe Steve needs to re-think this one through
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20005000-233.html
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20005000-233.html
Some observations
1. Competition IS a good thing.
2. The mythology that Apple is based on being 'open', is just that: a myth. And the iTunes store is just one example.
3. On the other hand, the loyalty and profits that come with a 'closed' environment is impressive. People want things to 'just work'.
4. If, from Apple's perspective, Microsoft has been the Evil Empire, then Google is a 'V' spaceship hovering over every major city in the world...acting nice and 'open' but plotting on how to eat everything it sees. Hell, they even had their 'leader' on Apple's board for a long time.
1. Competition IS a good thing.
2. The mythology that Apple is based on being 'open', is just that: a myth. And the iTunes store is just one example.
3. On the other hand, the loyalty and profits that come with a 'closed' environment is impressive. People want things to 'just work'.
4. If, from Apple's perspective, Microsoft has been the Evil Empire, then Google is a 'V' spaceship hovering over every major city in the world...acting nice and 'open' but plotting on how to eat everything it sees. Hell, they even had their 'leader' on Apple's board for a long time.
No offense..but i think he will. Google released a bunch of features at once. Apple is not known to do that. They leave you craving more. WHy change the business model if its working.
These "features" won't be here until mid-2011.
By then Apple will have a much better system in place and running.
Honestly
Google is just pissing me off
Like what most said, this is NOT innovating.... this is just copying what Apple is doing....
Competition is good.... only when you have your own idea that parallels a competitor, and does not actually OVERLAP what the competitor is doing....
Google is just pissing me off
Like what most said, this is NOT innovating.... this is just copying what Apple is doing....
Competition is good.... only when you have your own idea that parallels a competitor, and does not actually OVERLAP what the competitor is doing....
Isnt this what apple does also...remember whats good for the goose is good for the gander!
Just waiting on the 'open' platform that Google will have to agree to in order to protect RIAA and hollywood investments..
Oh and the annoyance of Android users that they will actually have to pay for content/apps..
I'm still waiting on Apple to announce Apple Maps to replace Google Maps, Apple Search to replace Google.. Apple Facebook that only allows beautiful people and of course Apple Twitter.. iJest..
You mix Google TV with Android 2.2 which will be available in June.
And I guess with Google's HTML5 app store out now Apple will probably ban HTML5 from the iPhone/iPad...
And it is about time for that too! Now that some of us will be just fine on shorter trips with our iPads, I would definitely want to start moving my MBP out of the syncing process.
What does Google TV have to do with a web based iTunes competitor or wireless sync with Android?
That's the schedule for Google TV. Try harder.
What? I see ads in some free applications I've downloaded from the market but that's it. I don't see any ads while I'm in the phone OS itself. The exact same can be said for iPhone apps as well.