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- cablefish, on 10/12/2007, -8/+60reduce Microsoft by 10%?
- unloud, on 10/12/2007, -4/+49Please please please give us .Mac by Google (and free too).
- TonyCubed, on 10/12/2007, -12/+49Decimating another company isn't actually a good thing. :P
- Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37"reduce Microsoft by 10%?"
I love the way cablefish is being dugg down when, in fact, he's the only one who's demonstrated an actual understanding of what the word 'decimated' means. It was a Roman Army term to kill one man in ten in a squad/legion/whatever that performed badly. It was an example to everyone else.
Probably worked as well. - roxya, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20*worships the great wall of text*
- MadOtaku, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18I want a .Mac so badly. But at $99 per year, it's a rip off — good deal about 3 years ago, when they made it.
- Gurubanks, on 10/12/2007, -26/+43This is really exciting. Imagine the Google search algorithm used for spotlight. Or unlimited .Mac server space by Google. I'd love to see an Apple-Google alliance decimate Microsoft.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -12/+27***** you.
Sincerely,
Employed, making more than you, enjoying my Mac and healthy sex life. - Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"Apple and Google working on many more projects." First thoughts = YouTube + Google Video on Apple TV.
- qpid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15oooh misspellings, using dollar signs as an s, saying words like interweb, and then the greatest ever: "Mikro$haft"
We have a winner! - Vermifax, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15I thought that only PC gamers were unemployed virgins.
Well, what do I know... I'm just a married music producer, with two children and a few top ten hits. Oh yeah. I'm also a Mac user of 22 years and counting. - Arkitan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Thats funny because they can't seem to put out a gtalk client for the mac.
- Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11"Make dot Mac free!!!"
Like it used to be.
I can still remember the Keynote where Steve Jobs announced that .Mac was now going to be a paid-for service. I thought he was going to be lynched... - EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8It seems like a reasonable partnership to me.
I could see them dropping .mac or turning it over to Google and embedding whatever Google does with .mac (and their own similar stuff) into future Leopard revisions.
If it's a new partnership, then it's too close to Leopard to see anything included when it's released.
http://mac.google.com/ ??? Soon I bet.
Maybe they'll fall in love and Google can spin off an OS for special applications on Mac hardware. A Octa Mac Pro its pretty hefty hardware should someone create an OS for it for a specific application... a data farm OS or something to plug into all that dark fiber. - Sanchez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9It's every digg user's wet dream.
- Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7That would be way, way cool. As a paid-for service .Mac doesn't have enough for me to justify the cost. As a free service it would.
- Abatrour, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I think Google is going to start using some of the unused fiber optics they own to help distribute the apple TV service.
- MadOtaku, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I hope he meant the anti-fanboy fanboys. They are the worst *hint hint*.
- KevinJim, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9"We have similar goals"
aah? Global domination ?
"Similar competitors"
Why don't you just say " we want to ***** m$ in the ass ! " - awhiteflame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Apple isn't really the underdog anymore..
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Make dot Mac free!!!
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What, no GoogleTV? Guess buying Youtube was just for ***** and giggles.
- poohat1000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5MMmm ichat google earth integration... tasty
- kethraal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Gindows"
Is that what happens when programmers drink? - Vlatro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Google's design is perfect. Simplicity wins out over eye-candy any day. It loads fast and presents results in a clear, easy to understand list. If anything, Apple could learn from them.
- aristotle0dude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Do you hate their quality software too?
- freebit50, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4History repeats itself over and over and over again. See the parallels between MS and IBM when IBM began its long slow road downhill? See the parallels between MS and AOL when AOL began its slow death march to obscurity. I remember when IBM was the ultimate computer company and no one could believe that one day soon they would fall and become the puny David instead of Goliath. I remember when AOL was the ultimate internet provider and no one could believe that one day they would sink into obscurity. AOL-who you ask? I remember when MS was the ultimate provider of OS's and no one could believe that one day they could be relegated to the OS backwaters of history. Oops, I suppose that last one hasn't happened yet. Hmmm, my time machine must have arrived a few years too early.
- esquilax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"This is really exciting. Imagine the Google search algorithm used for spotlight."
Um, how would that work? There are no hypertext links between the majority of my files. Google indexes which pages link to which to figure out which pages are better hits for a search keyword. - monototo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7don't worry geekitechture, such perspective will subside quickly
http://xkcd.com/c198.html :D - ihaveplans, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You are the Lord of all typesetting.
- MadOtaku, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What do you think they are working on? My bet is web apps for leopard, and iPhone stuff.
- kelly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3People never supported Apple because they were the underdog... its always been because they sell better products and that the industry standard was so much inferior.
- colincornaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3iChat works pretty well with GTalk. You just have to set up iChat's Jabber client.
- Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8"and you Sir, are the living embodiment of pendentic "
Oh, I'm a card carrying pedant, I assure you. But thanks for the expanded explanation. I was really only having a laugh at the way cablefish was (initially) being dugg down. - Vlatro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3When AOL was the "Ultimate" ISP? Define ultimate. Sure they may have conned my elderly grandparents into buying, but who here ever took them as being little more than a joke? IBM is still on top of the mainframe market, a niche where MS, Apple, and even distributed Linux networks fail to compete. Apple has yet to establish themselves in the business market. Until they do, they will not knock MS off it's throne. The average user doesn't want to learn one system for work and another for home use. The success of the iPod, and likely the iPhone have done wonderful things for the company. In the computer market they have failed to impress me. Their systems are great, but nothing I couldn't achieve on my PC under Windows or Linux. There is no "Must Have" app on the Mac for the average user.
You also neglect the fact that Apple once fell before the feet of Microsoft. They dominated the personal computer market for years and then rapidly vanished into obscurity.
I welcome anything Apple offers to the marketplace. I want to see competition. We, the consumers will gain from it. But I want to see competition come from innovation, not clever marketing. Hopefully any cooperation between Google and Apple will inspire that kind of innovation, but Apple has yet to impress me. - smithco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4If Google + YouTube = GooTube, does Google + Apple + YouTube = GooppleTube? I hope so, "GooppleTube" is fun to say.
- Oetzi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Damn. I really dislike apple and their stylish image
- monototo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hey geekitechture,
admittedly I was excited by this news. But I agree, some people need to take a reality check - it's just bits and bytes. Often it seems like the comments hype this ***** harder than the advertising or the PR firms. People - don't start to speculate that this is going to revolutionise spotlight or => a better .mac
such cretin behaviour was criticised brilliantly here: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/feature/horseshoes-and-hand-grenades-joel-johnson-returnsto-spank-us-all-for-supporting-crap-236310.php
on the other hand (back in reality) this google project looks like it has great potential: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ Check it out here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3138515991250095768&q=macfuse#4m27s - sgirard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2MacFUSE: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
I wonder if this is an example of how Apple and Google might work together? I can see Apple incorporating MacFUSE-like functionality into Leopard with Google providing secure server space, similar to Amazon S3. - smithco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'd be perfectly happy staying with iChat as a GTalk client, except for the lacking support for voice and video with people using Google's client.
- schneb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@unloud
I agree. What I like about Apple is their stuff just works. What I like about Google is their ads don't blink and their offerings are clean and free. Apple, learn from Google. Free! - rkettner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I hope Google eventually creates offline versions of their apps. I know some people that just can't adopt their stuff until it is available offline (so they can work during a flight, or when otherwise offline, and send e-mails and upload documents when connected again).
It would be cool if they made Mac versions... cause you know they still have to make PC versions. - donsmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No kidding!! .mac used to make improvements all the time, but nothing "new" since who know when. I stopped service a few months back and don't miss it a bit.
- Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You can use it from iChat though. Google have instructions for doing so.
http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24076
I've used it, seems to work fine. - Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If .Mac becomes free, more people will use it. Lots more. In turn more people (maybe not many, but some) will become aware of the Mac and switch, or consider it at least.
Now I actually don't think that some sort of enhanced, free .Mac is on the cards but that's one example of what Google and Apple could achieve together. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Probably never.
They DO however have a linux distro they've been working on called Goobuntu.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/
Probably just something they use in-house though. - geekitechture, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I know my reply is a little late but I just found yours. I love xkcd, he's always sharp-witted and funny. And I'm not worried; making that comment was my way of throwing myself to the lions at the Forum, after all, knowing full well I'd get buried in a heartbeat. Sometimes you just weigh your options and do what you think is best, even if that means that boo-hooo, waaaaaaah, I guess they won't *like* me for saying that!!!
So what. Life goes on. - Oetzi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What quality software? The best stuff is made by 3rd party developers. I make music so you have no idea how much I get "how can you use windows? pro tools is so awsome" or "man mac's are so good for music cause they just are". Macs have nearly no real advantages over windows except the ability to route midi around your system and this isn't significant seeing as I can use real cables to this in a much more versatile way. Macs are purely pretentious computers for people who don't know how to use window. (except for all the digital editors and animators out there, I realise you sorta have to use macs)
- chrisabraham, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think this will all be pushed forward by an AOL, Google, and Apple joint. Follow the IM... AOL is opening itself to Google Talk, which is already open iChat, etc... which is, of course, also ICQ, right? Well, I think this is where the combo will go... Google has said itself that is is transitioning from geek to chic (media) and so it is my opinion that with the deep connection that Google has with the NY Times and with a growing relationship Google is building with all the other media giants because of YouTube and Google AdWords, I believe that the "undisclosed" deal that Apple and Google are hashing out may be the most high-profile but I am almost certain that Google is not for the life of it being monogamous. I just plopped down $50/user for Business Google Apps and Google owns part of OpenOffice (where is that going?) and so forth... this is not about Google and Apple being equals, this is about Apple being the smartest little revolutionary around and realising that its core competency is Apple Inc and not Google Inc and that .Mac is not working for them and that Apple is now more of a hardware company than it is a service company (remember eWorld anyone?) and so Apple is just being smart, like they sometimes are. What I am curious about is how a company like Google, which is SO OPEN and "open aperture" is going to deal with a company that is so proprietary and closed? We shall see, we shall see.
- appleswitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Adium works great for me.
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