Comments on: In Google-Apple partnership, Jobs gets the Bill Gates he always wanted http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/19/in-google-apple-partnership-jobs-gets-the-bill-gates-he-always-wanted/ This can all be made better. Ready? Begin. Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:32:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Google Chrome Roundup http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/19/in-google-apple-partnership-jobs-gets-the-bill-gates-he-always-wanted/comment-page-1/#comment-100076 Google Chrome Roundup Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:44:26 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/19/in-google-apple-partnership-jobs-gets-the-bill-gates-he-always-wanted/#comment-100076 [...] Turns out that it’s going to be Apple and Google who will usher in the future of browsers, and who will get to determine just what that future of [...] [...] Turns out that it’s going to be Apple and Google who will usher in the future of browsers, and who will get to determine just what that future of [...]

]]> By: Buzz Andersen http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/19/in-google-apple-partnership-jobs-gets-the-bill-gates-he-always-wanted/comment-page-1/#comment-96183 Buzz Andersen Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:14:20 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/19/in-google-apple-partnership-jobs-gets-the-bill-gates-he-always-wanted/#comment-96183 You know, I've been meaning to write about this for a long time (maybe when I finally get the Sci-Fi Hi-Fi blog relaunched I finally will), but in a nutshell, I think people tend to give companies like Apple and Google way too much credit for this sort of long term thinking. One of my favorite examples of this was reading Dave Winer awhile back talking about podcasting being added to iTunes, and how it was evidence of this massive strategy Apple had been brewing up. In reality, from what I saw, it was far more of an afterthought. Hell, iTunes *itself* was a bit of an afterthought--it's easy to forget, given what a digital music powerhouse Apple has become, but iTunes was born out of a perception that Apple was lagging the PC market in digital media by not bundling CD burning drives. Meanwhile, while I'm no expert on Google, what I've seen there leads me to believe that, while they've got some general ideas about what they want to do in terms of massive computing power, they're flailing around as much as anyone trying to figure out what their next big thing is going to be. Even this supposed Apple/Google alliance is, I think, far less organized and concrete than people would like to believe. My suspicion is that both companies have some general ideas about where they're headed and how they might work together, but beyond that any collaboration is pretty ad-hoc. You know, I’ve been meaning to write about this for a long time (maybe when I finally get the Sci-Fi Hi-Fi blog relaunched I finally will), but in a nutshell, I think people tend to give companies like Apple and Google way too much credit for this sort of long term thinking.

One of my favorite examples of this was reading Dave Winer awhile back talking about podcasting being added to iTunes, and how it was evidence of this massive strategy Apple had been brewing up. In reality, from what I saw, it was far more of an afterthought. Hell, iTunes *itself* was a bit of an afterthought–it’s easy to forget, given what a digital music powerhouse Apple has become, but iTunes was born out of a perception that Apple was lagging the PC market in digital media by not bundling CD burning drives. Meanwhile, while I’m no expert on Google, what I’ve seen there leads me to believe that, while they’ve got some general ideas about what they want to do in terms of massive computing power, they’re flailing around as much as anyone trying to figure out what their next big thing is going to be. Even this supposed Apple/Google alliance is, I think, far less organized and concrete than people would like to believe.

My suspicion is that both companies have some general ideas about where they’re headed and how they might work together, but beyond that any collaboration is pretty ad-hoc.

]]> By: Steve Borsch http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/19/in-google-apple-partnership-jobs-gets-the-bill-gates-he-always-wanted/comment-page-1/#comment-96139 Steve Borsch Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:00:29 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/19/in-google-apple-partnership-jobs-gets-the-bill-gates-he-always-wanted/#comment-96139 To me, this connection has been so obvious for so long that I wrote these two posts that mostly sync with what Nick Carr surmises: Will Apple Own Mass Market Web Applications? http://www.iconnectdots.com/ctd/2006/12/will_apple_own_.html Will Safari be an Rich Internet Application Container? http://www.iconnectdots.com/ctd/2007/06/will_apples_saf.html To me, this connection has been so obvious for so long that I wrote these two posts that mostly sync with what Nick Carr surmises:

Will Apple Own Mass Market Web Applications?
http://www.iconnectdots.com/ctd/2006/12/will_apple_own_.html

Will Safari be an Rich Internet Application Container?
http://www.iconnectdots.com/ctd/2007/06/will_apples_saf.html

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