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2007 holds a lot of surprises imho.
 
kresh said:
hehe I can't see any Apple share holders agreeing to a buyout on stock swapping. "Here you go Mr. Apple Shareholder. You get 1 share of Google for every 6 shares of Apple that you have".

I forgot where I saw it earlier yesterday, or today, but I agree. Web Bubble Burst 2.0 is on the horizon.
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While Google will not buy Apple, you do realize that this is not the reason. Even if you went from 6 Apple shares to 1 Google share, your stock would hold the same value, and it would probably be more, since companies pay a premium over market value when they buy another company.
 
Google needs to get smart; Microsoft now view them as a threat and are attempting to crush them. Anything they can do that undermines Microsoft's OS monopoly helps; so support Mac users as best as you can.

puckhead193 said:
why can't apple buy google. If they did they would be no need t for a partnership in the iTV thing
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I don't think Apple could afford to buy Google.
 
because google's stock price is above $400 a share and apple is still trying to get back to $80. google is huge, plus we will se much cooler stuff if they don't merge.
 
GFLPraxis said:
I don't think Apple could afford to buy Google.
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honestly, i cannot imagine Apple's Google ... these two firms has very different policys (compare .mac vs. google pages+gtalk+gmail)
 
Almost makes me wonder if Apple could be thinking of doing the right thing, put .Mac out of its underdeveloped, poorly maintained, expensive misery, and integrate the former .Mac functionality into Google products.

Day 1 iTools user
Day 1 .Mac subscriber
Not a hater
 
neven said:
Speaking of Picasa, it has its shortcomings, but iPhoto could learn a lot from it too. Why isn't Apple kicking Picasa's butt in the real-time effect department? The smoothly faded effect when you rotate and edit pictures in Picasa is more Apple than Apple.
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And at least Picasa stores metadata in the file and understands IPTC comments, which iPhoto amazingly doesn't.
 
To be honest, I think google is just as bad as microsoft. That google tools crap is the worse thing you could download for a WinPC. That's something microsoft would put out, not something you would think google would do.

I won't install anything google puts out for mac, it will be anything (software wise) you can get yourself without the google software/installer slowing you down. That's just a easy way for google to advertise.
 
OdduWon said:
because google's stock price is above $400 a share and apple is still trying to get back to $80. google is huge, plus we will se much cooler stuff if they don't merge.
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Yes but because Google and Apple have different numbers of shares the share price doesn't nessessarily represent how much they are worth. Microsoft's share price is around $27, but the company is worth more than Google and Apple put together.
 
truz said:
To be honest, I think google is just as bad as microsoft. That google tools crap is the worse thing you could download for a WinPC. That's something microsoft would put out, not something you would think google would do.

I won't install anything google puts out for mac, it will be anything (software wise) you can get yourself without the google software/installer slowing you down. That's just a easy way for google to advertise.
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To be honest, google products are sometimes better than apple ones, for example iPhoto vs. picasa - picasa is easy to use and much better than really slow iPhoto
 
Westside guy said:
And to range far and wide... regarding the "Web 2.0 bubble bursting" - you are aware that Google turns a profit, aren't you? I simply don't see any broad parallels with the dot-com bust. There are companies out there that have poorly thought out business plans, and they will certainly fail - but that's been happening since time immemorial. Those sorts of companies don't seem to be the norm, which was the case before that debacle.
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But then google did just buy youtube, who don't make a profit.
 
Stridder44 said:
Come on Picasa for Mac...
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Yes, please. I use Parallels and Win XP on my iMac just so I can have Picasa. I've been trying to make iPhoto work the way I want it to, but I'm not a fan. The organization aspects of iPhoto are substandard. Trying to import nearly 10,000 photos into iPhoto and then having to organize them into albums manually is just BS. The film roll concept doesn't work well for me, and that approach doesn't work well with Front Row.

So...please...Google...do SOMETHING about getting Picasa on the Mac. Please!!!

Getting off the soap box now...

😎

--DotComCTO
 
Eraserhead said:
Yes but because Google and Apple have different numbers of shares the share price doesn't nessessarily represent how much they are worth. Microsoft's share price is around $27, but the company is worth more than Google and Apple put together.
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This is correct, in theory, but Google is still worth over twice what Apple is worth. Doing two seconds of research told me:

GOOG - Market Cap (in millions of dollars) = 131,137.51
AAPL - Market Cap (in millions of dollars) = 62,831.10

For those of you who need to retake Finance 101 (not necessarily you Eraserhead), Market Capitalization is the market price of a share times the number of shares outstanding.

For comparisions sake:

MSFT - Market Cap (in millions of dollars) = 271,010.68

So you are correct in that the market values MSFT more than Google and Apple combined.

But this is just a factor in if a company can "afford" to buy another company.
 
slu said:
This is correct, in theory, but Google is still worth over twice what Apple is worth. Doing two seconds of research told me:

GOOG - Market Cap (in millions of dollars) = 131,137.51
AAPL - Market Cap (in millions of dollars) = 62,831.10

For those of you who need to retake Finance 101 (not necessarily you Eraserhead), Market Capitalization is the market price of a share times the number of shares outstanding.

For comparisions sake:

MSFT - Market Cap (in millions of dollars) = 271,010.68

So you are correct in that the market values MSFT more than Google and Apple combined.

But this is just a factor in if a company can "afford" to buy another company.
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Wow... didnt know they were all worth that much, but then I hadnt bothered to look it up. thanks though!
 
DotComCTO said:
Yes, please. I use Parallels and Win XP on my iMac just so I can have Picasa. I've been trying to make iPhoto work the way I want it to, but I'm not a fan. The organization aspects of iPhoto are substandard. Trying to import nearly 10,000 photos into iPhoto and then having to organize them into albums manually is just BS. The film roll concept doesn't work well for me, and that approach doesn't work well with Front Row.

So...please...Google...do SOMETHING about getting Picasa on the Mac. Please!!!

Getting off the soap box now...

😎

--DotComCTO
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How should a program automatically organize them for you? (I'm not saying there isn't a better way, I just want to understand your idea so I can be on the lookout for something that implements it better than iPhoto)
 
I really hope Google pushes their mac software in a big way- SketchUp is, by far, my favorite app and I really, really want a universal binary version. 🙂
 
speakerwizard said:
i used picasa on pc and to me it seemed just like an iphoto straight copy, other than 1 thing, it finds photos in other folders (which i wouldnt like, i keep my photoshop seperate). so what would be the point.
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You can specify what folders you want it to search and monitor.

Picasa is far from being an iPhoto wannabe. For me, it's one of the reasons that I use my Windows computer as much as I do.
 
Westside guy said:
I think what's missing is a Mac version of Google Talk.
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i couldnt agree more, i would love a google made google talk client for mac. i use adium right now, but there isnt voice calls, voice mail, and all that cool stuff.
 
Good thing

I definitely see this as a positive and a way for the iTV to potentially view YouTube Stuff ... I can't wait to see "MadV" on my TV. (MadV = famous YouTube magician)
 
count chocula said:
i couldnt agree more, i would love a google made google talk client for mac. i use adium right now, but there isnt voice calls, voice mail, and all that cool stuff.
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Why not just use iChat (still no voice, but at least you can use one program for AIM and Google buddies). Now I just wish iChat wouldn't handle the buddy windows so separately (all those windows make me nervous, and you can't see more than one list of buddies at a time from the menu bar icon drop down).
 
User created video- where users could submit their own movies to a Apple site (with vopyright considerations in place). Or YouTube export in iMovie.
 
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