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Apple vs. Google: Tech's Newest Rivalry?

• ellyagg 17y ago
  Pretty interesting match-up really: ruthless efficiency versus individuality; process versus personality; open versus closed; workaday versus sublime; dauntingly powerful Borgian collective versus one man's vision.
  • vaksel 17y ago
    so which one is Google and which one is Apple
  • Locke1689 17y ago
    dauntingly powerful Borgian collective Indeed. I'm not sure Apple will put up much of a fight. Resistance is futile.
  • ubernostrum 17y ago
    How fickle are our tastes, and how brief our memories. Not long ago, Google was roundly denounced as a privacy-invading censorious copyright enforcer extending its monopolistic tendrils into every aspect of our lives. Then Apple started doing stupid crap with its mobile platform, and suddenly Google is truth and justice and freedom and puppies. How long until it swings round again?
• TweedHeads 17y ago
  webware vs fashionware Nop, not a rivalry.
• kevbin 17y ago
  I think it's less a rivalry than a kind of surprised CYA response to the new administration's ramped-up FTC, FCC enforcement. This made me laugh: "[Apple] relies more than any other tech company on so-called 'native code'…"