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Google to Take on Apple in Health and Fitness Tracking with 'Google Fit'
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Google's messaging app is on par with iMessages.
Google's Maps are far superior to that of Apple's.
Google's search algorithms are vastly superior to that of Apple's, Microsoft's, and Yahoo's.
Google Docs and Sheets are better than Apple's Pages & Numbers in the cloud.
Source or it didn't happen.
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Google is infinitely better than Microsoft, but Google Maps has actually been worse for me. It took me to the wrong destination for a U-Haul drop off, about a mile off, yesterday, and I've had other issues. Apple Maps has never given me bad directions, plus the app is way less laggy and easier to use.
HEY EVERYBODY! This guy copied that Black is the New Black thing from Netflix..... Oh, wait. ;-)
The difference being Apple wants to work with health professionals, and Google will be targeting you with ads for high blood pressure pills, viagra, and hemorrhoid cream.
Google's Privacy Policy is right here.
http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/#infouse
Google Chrome's privacy policy and EULA is right here
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/
No where as much as Facebook and Google, their whole business model is to sell user info and data. Apple's business model is to sell you their products and gears. In this case I trust Apple lot more.
If you don't see the difference, I can't help you.
I don't think Google sells user data, as it would probably be a bad decision for them to do so. The user data is one of the most valuable things they have. What they do is *they* use the data for targeting the ads that advertisers pay for (other than maybe some aggregate data such as how much search volume certain terms get, etc.) No need to sell the keys to the kingdom.
Not sure why people are saying google are copying? wasn't it samsung that have been making a huge push for health before apple? with there heart rate monitor and applications they released with the Galaxy s4?
Besides if they do announce and release a health app/features in 2 weeks time, wouldn't it be clear they have been working on in for a while? aka before apple annouched it? or do people think it would be that quick to create an app, API etc in the space of 3 weeks?
Besides if they do announce and release a health app/features in 2 weeks time, wouldn't it be clear they have been working on in for a while? aka before apple annouched it? or do people think it would be that quick to create an app, API etc in the space of 3 weeks?
Yeah, even though Google had already announced a platform dedicated to smart wearables (you can easily assume that would include fitness-tracking products) before we had any word from Apple about HealthKit.
Anyway, it's not like Apple don't copy others - look at iOS 8. I'm an iOS developer but I'm not afraid to look at the reality of things here. Both companies will have had their respective projects in the making for a long time, it's inevitable that this is the next step in smart products that big players like Apple, Google and Microsoft will want to take.
Yes, Apple offering is worst than Microsoft and Samsung offerings in health
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I'm sure that people write those comments to have a good laugh, no one with just a little common sense can write such ridiculous things
Isn't that the point? Apple does something that has been done before and you cry about it for four years. The competition does it at least four or five times a year.
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No, like they did with iPod, iPhone, iPad, aluminum bodied PC's, phones, and tablets, capacitive screens, gyroscopes, accelerometers, fingerprint sensors, etc. Software certainly isn't Apple's strongest point.
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Oh you'll be paying one way or another.
Here... get your facts straight: http://zurb.com/article/801/steve-jobs-and-xerox-the-truth-about-inno
You can jab back and fourth all you want. All comes down to how much money made form the platform.
My take on Android is it's consumer market is the biggest hoard of cheap bastards I have ever met. They don't want to pay for anything except their cell phone bill.
About the only way to make money off Android is in enterprise apps or selling your own Android devices. The rest of the Android market is table scraps.
Perhaps in you own mind. Everything you've created is based on or borrowed from something in existence (copied) and combined with others things to produce something different.
Yes its sad that their I/O reveal of this is coming after Apple announced theirs. I mean the nerve of the company. I give them credit though for copyinging a whole fitness app system in just mere weeks though. I mean wow imagine what they could have done if they were developing it months ago and wanted to show it off for their I/O showcase.....
Their fitness app and integration was a precursor to their health applications today. Fitness is related to health. Its also been developed over the years.
It is quite a coincidence when Steve Jobs biography came out about solving television we saw a resurgence with smart TV's.