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I agree though that Google has more impact than Apple. Every student, every high schooler or college student, professor, scientist etc around the world use Goog

I agree though that Google has more impact than Apple. Every student, every high schooler or college student, professor, scientist etc around the world use Google to get access to knowledge, learn and get their job done. I live in Peru where every student use google to get knowledge, I haven't seen anyone with an idevice anywhere here. I think the service Google has done to humanity by making information accessible to all and that easily is hard to match by any company today on earth. Apple makes pretty devices, and accelerated the smartphone revolution (which was already en marche with blackberry as the article say), but on the whole, Google reached and helped (and keep doing so today) much more people than Apple ever has. Not to mention the billions of dollars Google give to publishers from India to Peru helping them make a living, not to mention Android, youtube, blogger etc. So yes, Google has changed the world much more than Apple in my opinion and experience here and everywhere I've been.

raganwald 15y ago
You write as if Google invented web search. They made it dramatically better. But was it so much better that it changed the world? I am certain it was so much better that they killed off their competition, but somehow I don't think they were so much better that students in Peru wouldn't be using Web Search if Google hadn't come along.
- patrickaljord 15y ago
  Yes, Web Search was pretty useless before Google, I was there so I can remember (and I guess you probably were there too).
nirvana 15y ago
Every one of those people using Google are doing so on a system running a graphical user interface that Apple invented. In fact, it was Apple that invented the personal computer. Full stop.
- tintin 15y ago
  You never heard about Xerox did you?
  - schmittz 15y ago
    Although, important to note that while Xerox invented GUIs, they were about to trash the project before Apple stepped in and nurtured it. Speculation about what would have happened if they didn't do this is mostly meaningless, but disregarding the promulgation and popularization of GUIs in lieu of crediting only their original inventor is totally unfair.
    - nirvana 15y ago
      Actually, Xerox invented some important technologies, such as the mouse and the idea of a windowed interface, but this was not the GUI. That was invented by Apple. The xerox interface was more akin to emacs multi-document mode, there was no desktop metaphor, no file/folders organization, no trash can, the menubar was a very different conceptualization, etc.
      - sbuk 15y ago
        Xerox categorically did not invent the mouse. Doug Engelbart invented the mouse in the mid-to-late 1960s. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs for what is described as "The Mother of All Demos". As to the GUI, again PARC then Apple innovated on the original ideas of others. Ivan Sutherland is credited ad really being the first to develop the notion of the "GUI" - again in the late 60s - with Sketchpad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZqRJzE8xg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZqRJzE8xg. The Xerox interface was in fact essentially Smalltalk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk and http://homepage3.nifty.com/old_apple_world/photo/SmallTalk21.JPG http://homepage3.nifty.com/old_apple_world/photo/SmallTalk21...
        schmittz 15y ago
Anechoic 15y ago
I live in Peru where every student use google to get knowledge, Sure, but if Google wasn't around they would probably be using Yahoo or AltaVista to get knowledge.
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- mayanksinghal 15y ago
  To extend that analogy, we do have Yahoo!, Bing and AltaVista but Google is the leading search engine. iPhone is 14% and Android 50% [Ref:http://www.fsyaonline.com/apple-iphone-vs-google-android-market-share/ http://www.fsyaonline.com/apple-iphone-vs-google-android-mar... <-- Not sure how reliable it is, but the numbers cannot be inverted I suppose] So even if we look at the ideology that Apple takes up ideas and does brilliant executions that become insanely popular, then the game-point must go to Google for developing Android.

raganwald 15y ago

You write as if Google invented web search. They made it dramatically better. But was it so much better that it changed the world? I am certain it was so much better that they killed off their competition, but somehow I don't think they were so much better that students in Peru wouldn't be using Web Search if Google hadn't come along.

patrickaljord 15y ago
Yes, Web Search was pretty useless before Google, I was there so I can remember (and I guess you probably were there too).

nirvana 15y ago

Every one of those people using Google are doing so on a system running a graphical user interface that Apple invented. In fact, it was Apple that invented the personal computer. Full stop.

tintin 15y ago
You never heard about Xerox did you?
- schmittz 15y ago
  Although, important to note that while Xerox invented GUIs, they were about to trash the project before Apple stepped in and nurtured it. Speculation about what would have happened if they didn't do this is mostly meaningless, but disregarding the promulgation and popularization of GUIs in lieu of crediting only their original inventor is totally unfair.
  - nirvana 15y ago
    Actually, Xerox invented some important technologies, such as the mouse and the idea of a windowed interface, but this was not the GUI. That was invented by Apple. The xerox interface was more akin to emacs multi-document mode, there was no desktop metaphor, no file/folders organization, no trash can, the menubar was a very different conceptualization, etc.
    - sbuk 15y ago
      Xerox categorically did not invent the mouse. Doug Engelbart invented the mouse in the mid-to-late 1960s. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs for what is described as "The Mother of All Demos". As to the GUI, again PARC then Apple innovated on the original ideas of others. Ivan Sutherland is credited ad really being the first to develop the notion of the "GUI" - again in the late 60s - with Sketchpad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZqRJzE8xg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZqRJzE8xg. The Xerox interface was in fact essentially Smalltalk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk and http://homepage3.nifty.com/old_apple_world/photo/SmallTalk21.JPG http://homepage3.nifty.com/old_apple_world/photo/SmallTalk21...
      - schmittz 15y ago

Anechoic 15y ago

I live in Peru where every student use google to get knowledge, Sure, but if Google wasn't around they would probably be using Yahoo or AltaVista to get knowledge.

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mayanksinghal 15y ago
To extend that analogy, we do have Yahoo!, Bing and AltaVista but Google is the leading search engine. iPhone is 14% and Android 50% [Ref:http://www.fsyaonline.com/apple-iphone-vs-google-android-market-share/ http://www.fsyaonline.com/apple-iphone-vs-google-android-mar... <-- Not sure how reliable it is, but the numbers cannot be inverted I suppose] So even if we look at the ideology that Apple takes up ideas and does brilliant executions that become insanely popular, then the game-point must go to Google for developing Android.