Do any of them besides ads/search make money, though?
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Sam Kirsch <[email protected]> wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products > > There's a little more to them then just a Search Engine ;) > > I don't see how anything changes with Apple not being around either. > There's absolutely nothing in an Apple product that's super > groundbreaking... Many companies had already attempted to combine a PDA and > a Cell Phone long before the iPhone, they just did it the most mass > marketable way first. And that goes for just able every Apple product I > can think of. MP3 players existed. Music platforms existed. They just > weren't unified and mass marketed in the same way... so, Apple really just > copied a bunch of other guys too (and has been doing that since the > company's inception, the mouse, the GUI, etc) NOTHING CHANGES ;) > > > > *-- Samuel Kirsch, Network SupportPlexicomm - Internet Solutions | > www.plexicomm.net <http://www.plexicomm.net>* > *Office: 1.866.759.4678 x109 <1.866.759.4678%20x109> | Fax: 1.866.852.4688 > <1.866.852.4688>* > *Emergency Support: 1.866.759.9713 <1.866.759.9713> | [email protected] > <[email protected]>* > > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Travis Johnson" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: 2/2/2016 12:22:36 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SAD day > > > At least Apple makes products... products that literally changed the > computing world, the phone world, the retail world, created apps, and the > music world. Google created a search engine (actually copying Yahoo, > Webcrawler, Altavista and several others at the time). They aren't a > "product". They don't "sell" anything. They are a webpage, just like > Facebook. > > Imagine your life without Google or Facebook. NOTHING CHANGES. > > Yes, they built a better mousetrap using their intelligence and hard > work... but they aren't "inventors". They didn't create anything new or > groundbreaking. > > Travis > > On 2/1/2016 10:09 PM, Colin Stanners wrote: > > I'd much rather Google / Alphabet Inc. be in that position than Apple with > their overpriced yet restricted / non-upgradable / crappy consumer > electronics. > > Google is making themselves the curator of access to the world's > information and communications. When you consider the value of those, it's > not just the most valuable company in matters of money. The founders had > incredible foresight in addition to their intelligence and hard work. > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Travis Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> <http://www.ibtimes.com/alphabet-inc-goog-surpasses-apple-inc-aapl-become-worlds-most-valuable-public-company-2289113> >> http://www.ibtimes.com/alphabet-inc-goog-surpasses-apple-inc-aapl-become-worlds-most-valuable-public-company-2289113 >> >> "The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by >> little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons." >> ~ Cosmo (Sneakers 1992) >> >> Literally, a one page website for a company that is less than 19 years >> old is now the most valuable company in the world. :( >> >> Travis >> >> > >
