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No more than Toyota and BMW are at war. Regardless of how good Google's products get, their core business doesn't involve building the products that Apple is b

by roc 17y ago

No more than Toyota and BMW are at war. Regardless of how good Google's products get, their core business doesn't involve building the products that Apple is building. And even if beige box PCs came with an operating system and applications that better compared to a Mac, they'll still lack that integrated quality-assured ecosystem joining them together. E.g. For the average user, a web-app-focused OS is going to have even more confusing UI inconsistencies than Windows.

jacquesm 17y ago
For a war to exist you have to have a frontier. The 'google' territory centers around eyeballs, ads and possibly at some point in the future paid services (though it looks like google wants to avoid that). The 'apple' territory is a unified media presentation vision centered around slick hardware and a common user interface design. The 'microsoft' territory is mostly (xbox) centered around licensing software. All three companies have a completely different take on how to make money of their IT business. Sure there are overlaps, and for sure there will be users crossing over from the one service to the other. But if this were a 'real' war google would be selling hardware (or worse, giving it away), Apple would be getting in to the search business and microsoft would be going for the eyeballs at the expense of their licensing strategy. Some of this is happening, but at least for the foreseeable time things are relatively stable and market shares will slowly fluctuate, no 'mass casualties' are expected. For an idea of what happens when there is a war check out what happened to digital research, netscape and altavista. Skirmishes, yes, sure. War ? Definitely not.
alain94040 17y ago
Precisely. Will the Google OS be the best at video editing, so that when I plug my camcorder, I can edit video footage of my kids intuitively? Manage my photo album? Apple has shown their strenght in combining great apps with tailored hardware so that simple "multimedia" tasks just work. Anything can be replicated, but so far, I haven't see Google go after the same target at all.

by roc 17y ago

jacquesm 17y ago

For a war to exist you have to have a frontier. The 'google' territory centers around eyeballs, ads and possibly at some point in the future paid services (though it looks like google wants to avoid that). The 'apple' territory is a unified media presentation vision centered around slick hardware and a common user interface design. The 'microsoft' territory is mostly (xbox) centered around licensing software. All three companies have a completely different take on how to make money of their IT business. Sure there are overlaps, and for sure there will be users crossing over from the one service to the other. But if this were a 'real' war google would be selling hardware (or worse, giving it away), Apple would be getting in to the search business and microsoft would be going for the eyeballs at the expense of their licensing strategy. Some of this is happening, but at least for the foreseeable time things are relatively stable and market shares will slowly fluctuate, no 'mass casualties' are expected. For an idea of what happens when there is a war check out what happened to digital research, netscape and altavista. Skirmishes, yes, sure. War ? Definitely not.

alain94040 17y ago

Precisely. Will the Google OS be the best at video editing, so that when I plug my camcorder, I can edit video footage of my kids intuitively? Manage my photo album? Apple has shown their strenght in combining great apps with tailored hardware so that simple "multimedia" tasks just work. Anything can be replicated, but so far, I haven't see Google go after the same target at all.