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One has to assume that they want to eventually have full control over the Droid, ala Apple and their iPhone.
Google buying Motorolla
Makes sense. They've been trying to drive the Android platform with their Nexus phones, but don't have enough muscle behind the effort to make it go. This way they can drive out new features on a wider and more controlled base. Should be interesting.
That being said, interesting to be someone like HTC or the other people who make Android phones.
That being said, interesting to be someone like HTC or the other people who make Android phones.
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My brother-in-law is a hardware guy at Moto in northern Illinois. They've obviously been working pretty closely with Google over the past few years. He was telling stories, heck, last year or earlier, about Google:
1. A single Google software guy is better than a dozen Moto software guys.
2. Google thinks Google is God. Example: the handset manufacturers (Moto, Nokia, etc) are used to truckling to the carriers (AT&T, etc). When somebody at Moto said to Google something like, "oh the carriers aren't gonna like that," the response was, "We're fucking Google; we'll take care of it."
1. A single Google software guy is better than a dozen Moto software guys.
2. Google thinks Google is God. Example: the handset manufacturers (Moto, Nokia, etc) are used to truckling to the carriers (AT&T, etc). When somebody at Moto said to Google something like, "oh the carriers aren't gonna like that," the response was, "We're fucking Google; we'll take care of it."
2. Google thinks Google is God. Example: the handset manufacturers (Moto, Nokia, etc) are used to truckling to the carriers (AT&T, etc). When somebody at Moto said to Google something like, "oh the carriers aren't gonna like that," the response was, "We're fucking Google; we'll take care of it."
That's why someone needs to bitch slap Google in a big, big way.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
They've got to trip up substantially first, or else a new, sharper player needs to emerge. They'll sprawl out of control someday, the same way Macroshaft has currently, but they'll be around for a bit.Leisher wrote:That's why someone needs to bitch slap Google in a big, big way.2. Google thinks Google is God. Example: the handset manufacturers (Moto, Nokia, etc) are used to truckling to the carriers (AT&T, etc). When somebody at Moto said to Google something like, "oh the carriers aren't gonna like that," the response was, "We're fucking Google; we'll take care of it."
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
So far they're okay. They still allow their customers personal innovations with their products, and they have done less evil than most big corporations. Not perfect, but okay.
I'm sure someday they will turn into an evil empire. They always do eventually.
I'm sure someday they will turn into an evil empire. They always do eventually.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
Google does a lot of good. And part of that good is giving us an alternative to the real Evil Empire.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, said 2007 in an interview with the Financial Times: "The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ and ‘What job shall I take?'". Schmidt reaffirmed this 2010 in an interview with the Wall Street Journal: "I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions, they want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."
On December 2009, Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, declared after privacy concerns: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines – including Google – do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities."
Yeah. All sunshine and bunny rabbits there. No evil whatsoever.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."