Jean-Louis Gassée has a blog, can anyone translate?

[treblah]

http://gassee.blog.20minutes.fr/

Could be interesting if only I could read it… 😱

 

[WildCowboy]

There's always the Google translation.

"You now have sesame for the Google universe..."

 

[treblah]

"You now have sesame for the Google universe..."

Yeah, already tried that 😉

 

[yankeefan24]

go with google. best bet out there.

 

[treblah]

go with google. best bet out there.

Did you read the Google translation?

Anyone?

 

[OutThere]

Sésame = sesame in english. He's saying "the key to the google universe"

The google translater is piss poor, but that's a lot to translate.

Here's some of the beginning, I took a little liberty to make it readable, instead of word-for-word:

You've got a computer, add an operating system and Firefox, the free browser, and now you've got the key to the Google universe, with all of your applications running between gigantic servers and Firefox.

Microsoft, Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer are out of the game.

Nonbelievers will say it's just a question of allegiance.

Us and them: For Google, it's a question of survival, a warcry. Survival? But Google is prospering, their cup runneth over 🙂p), their share of the market for search engines continues to grow, so where's the problem? On Wall Street and in Redmond. Investors are asking themselves just how far Google's earnings will grow, and the answer depends mostly on what Microsoft will do or not do to take hold of Google's empire. That's why Google needs to combat Microsoft on all fronts, now and in the future.

If that whets your appetite I can maybe do some selections from the rest, but it's kind of a dry article. Too long for me to do the whole thing.

 

[treblah]

If that whets your appetite I can maybe do some selections from the rest, but it's kind of a dry article. Too long for me to do the whole thing.

Thank you, the google translation made my head hurt. I really appreciate that. 🙂

I was really wondering if there are any Apple/Be related posts. 😕

 

[OutThere]

Thank you, the google translation made my head hurt. I really appreciate that. 🙂

I was really wondering if there are any Apple/Be related posts. 😕

Nope, just 2 on hybrid-fuel cars and one on Google vs. Microsoft for the moment. He mentions some stuff about Apple and his work at Be in his bio:

Apple France was was becoming the most prosperous of Apple's branches in the world. Returning to 1985: the Macintosh had trouble settling in, and fire burned between the founder, Steve Jobs, and the PDG hired to compensate for Steve, John Scully. Steve was fired (he brought success with him when he came back in 1997) and Sculley moved me to "The Valley", and entrusted me with the research & development department at Apple. I later became the president of the Product Division (R&D, factories and marketing products). I quit Apple in 1990 and founded Be, Inc., a software company for multimedia applications. Be was publicly traded on Nasdaq (BEOS) in 1999, before being sold to Palm in 2001. The next enterprise was separated in two: Palm, the organizers, and PalmSource, the software; I became chairman of PalmSource. In 2005, we sold the enterprise to Access Co., a software company for multimedia telephones and organizers. In parallel, in 2002, after selling Be, I began my third career: corpocrat, entrepreneur, and now venture capitalist.

Mostly stuff that's available elsewhere...felt I'd put it out there anyway. Interesting guy, even if he does come across as a little full of himself. 🙂