On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Michael Brian Bentley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am bemused by Google. I think Google feels the current wireless app model is broken. Their model is based on apps/services that bring new sources of revenue. Many things done with apps purchased from the iphone store could be done using a browser and google servers for data, and would be supported by "ads" rather than purchased. Its all about the data -- apps you purchase now must rely on "public" data with perhaps some minimal reformatting by the app vendor. You can do a lot more with data if there is an ongoing revenue stream based on the way the data are presented and used by mobile devices. > Where's the fit and finish? The originality and the persistence? > > Why the me-too approach? This got old with Microsoft Zune. Today's Apple > certainly isn't the Apple of the 80's and 90's. > > Seems like a waste of great engineering talent. Google's point is that Apple and Apple's business model is not the only way to use this class of device. Consider ebooks -- while some people purchase books to read from 1st byte to last, many books are used as references. Tools that search a library and provide a few pages from several sources are better suited to the reference model. I have an office full of books. Often I know one of them has some info I need, but can't remember which book it was, or a colleague has borrowed the book and gone into the field leaving it locked in the lab. I go to the library and the book is only available from interlibrary loan. Having a huge searchable reference library means that people working in less developed countries have the same level of access to refs as people at Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Oxford, etc. -- George N. White III <[email protected]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
