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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:47 am
by Leisher
Article.
One has to assume that they want to eventually have full control over the Droid, ala Apple and their iPhone.
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:55 am
by TheCatt
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.
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 11:06 am
by TheCatt
Oh, and patents. I bet they want the patents too.
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 11:45 am
by thibodeaux
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."
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 12:25 pm
by Leisher
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.
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 12:57 pm
by thibodeaux
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:37 pm
by Malcolm
Leisher wrote: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.
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.
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:20 pm
by TPRJones
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.
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:27 pm
by GORDON
TPRJones wrote:I'm sure someday they will turn into an evil empire. They always do eventually.
Usually when the accountants take over control of the company. Seems like the techies are still generally in charge at the moment.
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:43 pm
by TheCatt
Google does a lot of good. And part of that good is giving us an alternative to the real Evil Empire.
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:06 am
by Malcolm
TPRJones wrote:I'm sure someday they will turn into an evil empire.
They already are and have been for a bit now.
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:29 am
by Malcolm
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.