Craig Gibson
Apple looking to kick Google off of the iPhone?
by Craig Gibson on 20 January 2010
I’m not sure what percentage of the Venerable Crowhill readership cares about such matters, but this story struck me this morning. Google releases the Nexus One phone, and Apple is mad, so it is looking to kick Google off as the main portal on the iPhone? Apple has been good at designing devices people want to use, and Google has been good at providing Internet services people want to use. But there seems to be a strange trend forming where a company seeks to be all things to all people. This could quickly lead to a place where no companies are good at anything.
2010-01-20 » Craig Gibson
20 January 2010 @ 2:23 pm
Or at least, you can’t choose to get the best available service of any particular kind, because you have to choose between one company’s inferior hardware and superior web services, or the other company’s superior hardware and inferior web services.
I’m just glad Google’s finally starting to tell the Chinese where to get off.
20 January 2010 @ 3:34 pm
Great points, pentamom!
Re: the Chinese – it’ll be interesting to see how long and fast they can keep growing with the Communist Party’s (why are they still called that when they don’t practice communist principles anymore?) iron grip squeezing and redirecting creativity and expression at every turn.