On Mar 4, 1:21 am, Augusto Sellhorn <[email protected]> wrote: > So because he worked at Microsoft and now is at Google, the conference > is going to be full of such nonsense?
At last year's Google I/O, Vic and other Google executives laid heavily into Apple (http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100521/viral-video- googles-laughable-but-not-funny-apple-tantrum, http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/google-says-i-o-jabs-at-apple-in-a-spirit-of-good-fun-as-they). Two things stood out: Apple was painted as the "Big Brother" from "1984". This is coming from a company that knows so much more about you than Big Brother ever did - all your phone calls, emails, contacts, friends, appointments, tasks, text messages, documents, pictures, videos, web searches, the places you've been, everything you type into your browser and that you buy. And that company thinks privacy is for people who have something to hide and that users expect Google to tell them what to do next (Schmidt quotes). After Schmidt was ousted and Sergey Brin "wozniaked", it really is now down to one man at Google - Larry Page. Who's the Big Brother again? And then Vic said this (http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100520/ qotd-but-were-just-fine-with-the-two-men-one-company-one-search-engine- model/): “If we did not act, we faced a draconian future. Where one man, one company, one carrier was the future.” This smells like history rewriting to me: Google bought Android in 2005, and I doubt they knew about the iPhone then. With Android, Google has been a "fast follower" for the most part, copying the leading smartphone. Initially, that was the Blackberry (http:// gizmodo.com/?_escaped_fragment_=334909/google-android-prototype-in-the- wild), then the iPhone (and yes, Google has their own share of innovations in Android, like the speech recognition). Hands up for all those who believe that Google did Android to save humanity and not to make more money in the end! Yeah, I didn't think so either. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
