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Initial reactions: 1. If Google did something like this, we'd be hearing from their competitors about privacy implications from products that read your message

Initial reactions: 1. If Google did something like this, we'd be hearing from their competitors about privacy implications from products that read your messages. 2. Autocorrect (or SwiftKey for that matter) is already obnoxious enough, not that I would purposely go without. I can only imagine getting spurious ratings injected to my chats being MORE frustrating.

kaolinite 12y ago
1. That's purely because of trust and reputation. Google is in the business of tracking people, Apple just wants to sell expensive hardware. 2. You might be right there, although I'm sure it'd be possible to disable it. Overall, I'd love it if they added this. I'm surprised however that Apple hasn't attempted (or perhaps they have) to buy Yelp - seems like it would make a lot of sense for them, especially as Yelp is fairly heavily integrated into iOS anyway.
- mtmail 12y ago
  Yelp has over 2500 full time employees and $3 billion market capitalization. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=YELP+Profile http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=YELP+Profile
  - kaolinite 12y ago
    Sure, it would definitely be a large acquisition but I feel it would work quite well with their efforts to improve Maps. It seems that they might becoming less timid, under Cook, to spend large amounts on companies.
  - sanderjd 12y ago
    Huh, really didn't realize they had so many employees. What do most of them do? Surely that's not mostly engineering staff...
    - sosborn 12y ago
      Extor… uh, I mean, Sales.
    - coke12 12y ago
      They have a TON of salespeople. Only several hundred engineers last time I heard.
      - zaroth 12y ago
        I thought the latest news was that their R&D budget has absolutely exploded?
- mfisher87 12y ago
  Apple isn't in the business of tracking people? http://advertising.apple.com/ http://advertising.apple.com/
  - kaolinite 12y ago
    iAd is such a low priority for them you wouldn't believe. From what I've heard it doesn't have basic features that other advertising networks have and it prioritises privacy pretty heavily. In fact, I suspect that reducing the market share of advertising networks that are less privacy concerned in favour of one they control was likely a major reason they launched it. Even if not, it hardly compares to the likes of Google, etc. http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/02/apple-struggling-ad-sales-due-strict-privacy-settings.html http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/02/apple-struggling-ad-sales...
notatoad 12y ago
Google recently acquired emu, an app that does pretty much exactly this. Look for it to happen soon. http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/06/google-buys-emu/ http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/06/google-buys-emu/
Chevalier 12y ago
Google HAS done this. I'm one of Google+'s very few fanatics, and searches for local businesses and so on turn up recommendations from friends. G+ is everything this guy dreams of. And it's already very well-executed. All that's needed is a critical mass of users, which Google is (wisely) wooing with photo enhancements and great privacy settings. It might take a generation of teenage turnover, but I just don't see how Google can lose this war.
- Pxtl 12y ago
  Hangouts and Android seem to be gradually winning people over into Google social. My younger geek coworkers actually are using plus a bit.
gcb0 12y ago
Heh. like if there is any trust left on google. they are even pre-fetching ads using android account sync nowadays.

kaolinite 12y ago

1. That's purely because of trust and reputation. Google is in the business of tracking people, Apple just wants to sell expensive hardware. 2. You might be right there, although I'm sure it'd be possible to disable it. Overall, I'd love it if they added this. I'm surprised however that Apple hasn't attempted (or perhaps they have) to buy Yelp - seems like it would make a lot of sense for them, especially as Yelp is fairly heavily integrated into iOS anyway.

mtmail 12y ago
Yelp has over 2500 full time employees and $3 billion market capitalization. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=YELP+Profile http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=YELP+Profile
- kaolinite 12y ago
  Sure, it would definitely be a large acquisition but I feel it would work quite well with their efforts to improve Maps. It seems that they might becoming less timid, under Cook, to spend large amounts on companies.
- sanderjd 12y ago
  Huh, really didn't realize they had so many employees. What do most of them do? Surely that's not mostly engineering staff...
  - sosborn 12y ago
    Extor… uh, I mean, Sales.
  - coke12 12y ago
    They have a TON of salespeople. Only several hundred engineers last time I heard.
    - zaroth 12y ago
      I thought the latest news was that their R&D budget has absolutely exploded?
mfisher87 12y ago
Apple isn't in the business of tracking people? http://advertising.apple.com/ http://advertising.apple.com/
- kaolinite 12y ago
  iAd is such a low priority for them you wouldn't believe. From what I've heard it doesn't have basic features that other advertising networks have and it prioritises privacy pretty heavily. In fact, I suspect that reducing the market share of advertising networks that are less privacy concerned in favour of one they control was likely a major reason they launched it. Even if not, it hardly compares to the likes of Google, etc. http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/02/apple-struggling-ad-sales-due-strict-privacy-settings.html http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/02/apple-struggling-ad-sales...

notatoad 12y ago

Google recently acquired emu, an app that does pretty much exactly this. Look for it to happen soon. http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/06/google-buys-emu/ http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/06/google-buys-emu/

Chevalier 12y ago

Google HAS done this. I'm one of Google+'s very few fanatics, and searches for local businesses and so on turn up recommendations from friends. G+ is everything this guy dreams of. And it's already very well-executed. All that's needed is a critical mass of users, which Google is (wisely) wooing with photo enhancements and great privacy settings. It might take a generation of teenage turnover, but I just don't see how Google can lose this war.

Pxtl 12y ago
Hangouts and Android seem to be gradually winning people over into Google social. My younger geek coworkers actually are using plus a bit.

gcb0 12y ago

Heh. like if there is any trust left on google. they are even pre-fetching ads using android account sync nowadays.