Google will win this war. But, they will be as bad, if not worse, than M$. And, they'll prove to be much more difficult competition for Apple than M$, especially if they run Mac …
I don't think that Mac compatibility is going to be an issue for the future. Esp. with Apple migrating to Intel and reducing porting hurdles. Also Goog is placing some bets with Ja…
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Originally Posted by Wiskedjak
Google will win this war. But, they will be as bad, if not worse, than M$. And, they'll prove to be much more difficult competition for A…
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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…