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While I usually don't agree with the convoluted and twisted logic of Asymco, Gruber and Marco (they do get a lot of undeserved traction on HN thanks to its big
by recoiledsnake 15y ago
While I usually don't agree with the convoluted and twisted logic of Asymco, Gruber and Marco (they do get a lot of undeserved traction on HN thanks to its big section of Apple fans), I think this time he does have a point.
It will be a tightrope walk for Google about who and how to share the longterm plans of the OS with etc.
- ellyagg 15y agoUndeserved traction? Isn't Apple performing outrageously well with consumers and as a company? Were they not the largest capitalized company in the world at one point recently? If Apple were not being reported on here heavily (and positively), a site devoted to the intersection of hacking and business, that would be awfully weird, no? As far as I know, developer revenue from iPhone apps still dwarfs Android. Shouldn't that be pretty interesting to a community more than partly devoted to making money off of programming? If anything, I suggest the extremely large number of Google employees who participate here swings the bias the other way. I found it exceedingly odd that--regarding a story about a company paying $12 billion to buy another company, the type of move that is normally considered incredibly risky, and the type of move which does not have a great track record in the annals of corporate history--after making it 3/4 of the way down the comment thread here on HN, there was virtually no criticism. Really? This move is a slam dunk?
- recoiledsnake 15y agoI was talking about _some_ posts from sites like Asymco, Gruber's and Marco and some HN comments. I don't know how you construed it as if my comment was against general(if a little overactive) Apple coverage, which is think is well deserved since Apple is doing a lot lately. You were attacking a strawman.