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By: How Apple could slay Google at WWDC 2010 — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

How Apple could slay Google at WWDC 2010 — RoughlyDrafted Magazine — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:11:35 +0000

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By: PeterR

PeterR — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:13:04 +0000

Hi Daniel, really excellent analysis. I keep wondering why Americans are so absolutely not worried about the amount of personal information that Google collects… free is all that matters. (And I am not talking about the information they share consciously when registering, but all the click tracking that is going on invisibly, emails etc.) It seems they are selling their most intimate information with an anonymous superpower to save a couple of dollars! (Same applies to Europeans, increasingly, unfortunately, even though they have all this past with Stasi etc. and should know what it means if somebody knows you better than your best friends.)

By: kisap

kisap — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:59:04 +0000

Thanks for one more good and well thought writing :-)

>Or paid through socialist TV licensing taxes, like the BBC

This is not necessarily bad. In Finland we have also this “socialist” system (YLE, Finnish Broadcasting Company). It is the only provider which sends stuff that people with brains care to watch. Then we tons of free and pay channels which make sick. The YLE license costs c.a. $360 per year. Compared to the high quality content the license fee is a steal.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:52:23 +0000

Thanks a lot ChuckO for your words. We have a lot of idea to improve our eccellio.com project. But for now we don’t have enough money so we need an underlying technology like Google. But we can easily replace Google with Yahoo or Ask, or something else. We will try next year. Now it’s time to rest. All the best for new year to everybody.

By: ChuckO

ChuckO — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:20:17 +0000

Peter, I feel for you. There’s nothing worse than doing all the work to realize a labor of love like a web site and then being let down by somebody like Google not delivering what they promised. I hope it works out for you in the long run.

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:21:16 +0000

Dan, A couple more links. As you may have gathered, I'm hoping to inspire you into writing more :) Android HTC Profile How Microsoft blew it Oh, and here's a rant of my own, responding to a Doctor Ficsor of the WIPO, who appears to have some problems with rational thought.

By: RDM: Apple vs Google; it’s all about who pays « Day and Age

RDM: Apple vs Google; it’s all about who pays « Day and Age — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:10:35 +0000

[...] Daniel Eran Dilger on the two waring ideologies behind Google and Apple: Apple is all about micropayments, voting with your dollars, while Google is all about finding a sponsor to subsidize your services. This results in premium-oriented buyers flocking to Apple (explaining why the company sells the vast majority of all PCs over $1000) and why the freetards can’t stop defending Google, even when its really doing something bad. Sides have been picked, the war is on, and it really all has nothing to do with Apple’s products or Google’s offerings. It’s the division of freetards and those who want to drop cash on things that they deem worth it. [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:57:11 +0000

But there is, in my opinion, a slightly difference. People can earn money from the AppStore. With AdSense you can’t get any money, see all the complain on the Net. AdSense doesn’t work. Google has no interest in give this framework to the community but it gives you the perception you can. With the AppStore you have a clear app workflow approval. It’s working and people can establish a business. Google instead offer a very poor service and it’s ignoring the users that try to establish a business using their technology.

By: ChuckO

ChuckO — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:50:54 +0000

Peter,
I don’t know if a small business would have any more luck with Apple in a similar situation than Google. See all the complaints about the app store. On the scale of platforms like the app store or Adsense if small would-be partners can’t get the platform to work for them Apple or Google can’t spend the time working on these issues. They just have to many people coming at them.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:57:14 +0000

If you want to take a look on my project, here is the link: http://www.eccellio.com