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Heh, that’s cute. And it still seems reasonably close to reality - the only thing I think it’s missing OTOH is Google One. Apple has Books, Pay, Wallet, Store,

Heh, that’s cute. And it still seems reasonably close to reality - the only thing I think it’s missing OTOH is Google One. Apple has Books, Pay, Wallet, Store, App Store, One, and TV. All they’re missing is Cast and Go!

rblatz 6y ago
Yes but Apple has one of each google has multiple of each.
- cgriswald 6y ago
  True. But Apple TV/Apple TV+ are cutting it pretty close.
  - dependsontheq 6y ago
    But I think that is a temporary thing - I don't think Apple TV is going to be long term product - TVs are too smart now
    - AznHisoka 6y ago
      Do you think they are going to stop making them, or do you see them entering the smart TV market with their own TV?
      - dependsontheq 6y ago
        No they won’t this is a low margin market. They will just offer Apps.
        philtar 6y ago
        1) Phones were a low margin market. Laptops are the lowest of margins. Desktops too. Apple doesn't care about what the current margin of a market is because it slaps a premium on it to reach the margin its looking for. 2) Apple does not create apps for other platforms as a source of profit. They have never done that. To guess that they would do that now is a gigantic leap in logic.
    - Anthony-G 6y ago
      TVs may be “smart” but they are becomingly increasingly user-hostile with regard to tracking and force-feeding advertisements. I want to have the option of using devices that respects my privacy. Hopefully, I’m not alone and there continues to be a market demand for sudh user-friendly products.
    - brirec 6y ago
      >TVs are too smart now This is why I’m so reluctant to look into modern TVs. The quality on my mid-range 2014 Sony is pretty average at best by today’s standards, but at least it’s not smart enough to know what I’m watching and has no network connectivity. This also means I can’t easily control it with a smartphone without something like Logitech Harmony which is just awful in UX, but still… it can’t track what I’m doing on the TV either.
quicklime 6y ago
Also the Pixelbook Go - whoever named that must’ve been throwing two darts at the same time!
Angostura 6y ago
"One" is always the moment of self-realisation. "We have all these complex services, lets ... err ... try to make them look coherent by putting them under the "One" brand".
kristopolous 6y ago
It still beats hardware naming schemes: MAG, MPG and MEG for MSI and then a string of "pro" "extreme" "enhanced" and characters like "+" lobbed on to various words, usually in combination ... Do I want MAG pro extreme+ or MPG enhanced pro 2? And then there's Intel which literally reused numbers for its Xeon series so you have to check the chipset/socket type otherwise you could be 10 years off. And then there's RAM where vendors will put numbers like "3600" after say 2400Mhz RAM because it's that product's series number but knows full well that it's also a common clockspeed. You'd think they're just trying to trick you and do an upsell to fools but sometimes they also go the other way as well. I don't think they realize how confusing it is So yeah, Google isn't doing that bad
shi314 6y ago
Google has Google One but currently it's only Cloud Storage and some PlayStore benefits. In few years, you could expect few more google services in it.
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  > Google has Google One but currently it's only Cloud Storage and some PlayStore benefits. And paid support for all Google consumer services.

rblatz 6y ago

Yes but Apple has one of each google has multiple of each.

cgriswald 6y ago
True. But Apple TV/Apple TV+ are cutting it pretty close.
- dependsontheq 6y ago
  But I think that is a temporary thing - I don't think Apple TV is going to be long term product - TVs are too smart now
  - AznHisoka 6y ago
    Do you think they are going to stop making them, or do you see them entering the smart TV market with their own TV?
    - dependsontheq 6y ago
      No they won’t this is a low margin market. They will just offer Apps.
      - philtar 6y ago
        1) Phones were a low margin market. Laptops are the lowest of margins. Desktops too. Apple doesn't care about what the current margin of a market is because it slaps a premium on it to reach the margin its looking for. 2) Apple does not create apps for other platforms as a source of profit. They have never done that. To guess that they would do that now is a gigantic leap in logic.
  - Anthony-G 6y ago
    TVs may be “smart” but they are becomingly increasingly user-hostile with regard to tracking and force-feeding advertisements. I want to have the option of using devices that respects my privacy. Hopefully, I’m not alone and there continues to be a market demand for sudh user-friendly products.
  - brirec 6y ago
    >TVs are too smart now This is why I’m so reluctant to look into modern TVs. The quality on my mid-range 2014 Sony is pretty average at best by today’s standards, but at least it’s not smart enough to know what I’m watching and has no network connectivity. This also means I can’t easily control it with a smartphone without something like Logitech Harmony which is just awful in UX, but still… it can’t track what I’m doing on the TV either.

quicklime 6y ago

Also the Pixelbook Go - whoever named that must’ve been throwing two darts at the same time!

Angostura 6y ago

"One" is always the moment of self-realisation. "We have all these complex services, lets ... err ... try to make them look coherent by putting them under the "One" brand".

kristopolous 6y ago

It still beats hardware naming schemes: MAG, MPG and MEG for MSI and then a string of "pro" "extreme" "enhanced" and characters like "+" lobbed on to various words, usually in combination ... Do I want MAG pro extreme+ or MPG enhanced pro 2? And then there's Intel which literally reused numbers for its Xeon series so you have to check the chipset/socket type otherwise you could be 10 years off. And then there's RAM where vendors will put numbers like "3600" after say 2400Mhz RAM because it's that product's series number but knows full well that it's also a common clockspeed. You'd think they're just trying to trick you and do an upsell to fools but sometimes they also go the other way as well. I don't think they realize how confusing it is So yeah, Google isn't doing that bad

shi314 6y ago

Google has Google One but currently it's only Cloud Storage and some PlayStore benefits. In few years, you could expect few more google services in it.

dragonwriter 6y ago
> Google has Google One but currently it's only Cloud Storage and some PlayStore benefits. And paid support for all Google consumer services.