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Originally Posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO
People don't hate google like they hate Microsoft.
They aren't all that mac friendly but they are better than MS.
Tha…
Google strikes me as a company that's trying to do things to make life easier and cooler. Like Apple. they're trying to make computing work for people. Microsoft doesn't do that. M…
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Originally Posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO
People don't hate google like they hate Microsoft.
Don't worry, that'll come.
Remember, people hated IBM more than t…
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Originally Posted by kcmac
I'll never understand the Picasa love thing. I use it at work on my PC only because Windows is lame in this regard. Would never want Picasa on …
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Originally Posted by brokenjago
As far as I know, the only Macintosh compatible software Google has ever released is the gMail notifier for Mac OS X.
Most Google softw…
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Originally Posted by tavilach
Most Google software is via the web browser. Google. Google Maps. GMail.
That's kind of the genius of it, isn't it? Isn't that exactly …
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Originally Posted by SirCastor
That's kind of the genius of it, isn't it? Isn't that exactly what Microsoft wanted to do with .Net? They wanted your applications to resid…
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Originally Posted by teszeract
THE WAR
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Originally Posted by Tesseract
They are selling ads, mostly.
They also sell search appliances and "Google minis".
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It always takes Microsoft a few years to catch on to new technologies, but when they do they always shut out the competition. Let's have a quick run through the graveyard of Micro…
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Originally Posted by Kerrigan
It always takes Microsoft a few years to catch on to new technologies, but when they do they always shut out the competition. Let's have a …
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Originally Posted by Kerrigan
It always takes Microsoft a few years to catch on to new technologies, but when they do they always shut out the competition. Let's have a …
I love how Google is using Microsoft's own tactics against it, i.e. giving stuff away to compete. I'm not sure there'll be a clear victor - Microsoft has deep pockets but I think i…
I'd just like to see a few different companies shaking things up. And if it comes to the point where you just have two formats that work well with both programs then the consumer …
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Originally Posted by Salty
I'd just like to see a few different companies shaking things up. And if it comes to the point where you just have two formats that work well …
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Originally Posted by JackNN
Actually I'd like to see a duopoly where Google owns the information
Google already does own the information. Google knows when you eat, w…
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Originally Posted by edgr
Google already does own the information. Google knows when you eat, when you sleep and who you sleep with, what brand of car you drive and what …
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Originally Posted by edgr
Pretty soon you'll see little googlebots buzzing around the streets: "GoogleBot: indexing your life."
Do you have any proof of this?
M$ is trying very hard to become the next General Motors, a company living on past glories staffed by brain-dead execs whose only concern is quarterly financials and obscene execut…
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Originally Posted by amsalpemkcus
IMHO. The only way M$ is going to compete well against Google is by splitting up. The size of M$ is its own biggest problem.
That's…
1) Yes; that's the only way the iPod will recognize your computer in a way that lets it accept playable music.
2) Yes. The iPod even comes with iTunes on CD for both Mac and Wind…