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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Funny how this comes up in the "news" section and the first couple of words in the description are "The latest rumor."
- tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -7/+27google + apple will be like watching hot lesbian sex
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Yea, I can hear them now. "A blogger is speculating, we're fuxed!"
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18It could also be a match made in hell. Apple has made a 30 year dynasty out of the power of client driven applications with heavy hardware/software integration. Google is of the "If you can get it to run a browser and run a network stack..." philosophy. I can see some short term benefits for both, but their long term goals are definitely opposed.
- joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18You strange, strange, nerd. Not to say everyone else here isn't a nerd, but most people don't have sexual fantasies that correlated to business alliances.
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21I really don't want Google becoming a part of the "Microsoft vs. Apple" drama, and that will happen when they take actions which everyone out there will percieve as 'taking sides.' People tend to put so much attention on their emotionally powered perceptions that it over-shadows the entire original point.This will only lead a barrage of unnecessary mac-ego uproar, with something random from the left like angry-Linux community's or something.
The tech. industry is like a liquid jig-saw puzzle; and that doesn't even make sense.
Google, you have the money, just do what ever it is you want your own way and we'll all love you for it. :) - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Well.. a rumor is just unconfirmed news to an Apple geek..
- Videlicet, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15In related news, Apple may partner with Jesus to cure cancer, poverty, and global warming (and finally release that damn touchscreen video iPod). Look for more info next week...
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11If it did, we would need to develop a new language. One powerful enough to handle the advanced buzz words and buzz phrases that the goopple would develop and have endlessly repeated in digg headlines.
- whickywhickyjim, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13This. Will. Never. Happen
- unloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Midget porn is a strange fetish?
- DarkSideofMoon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10And I thought midget porn was a strange fetish...
- countmandible, on 11/15/2007, -6/+12@mikesbaker
I never had any problems with Itunes on my PC. Worked so much better than WinAmp or MusicMatch. - swiftekho, on 10/12/2007, -12/+16Google should just team up with Linux... GG
- geezusfreeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@simpleid: The truth is that there is also already a Microsoft vs. Google war going on as well. There a very few people in these parts that won't see such an alliance between Google and Apple as a way of joining forces against a common enemy.
- nikebud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5apologies, "Do no evil, unless it affects our ipod users and market share."
- drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4msn competes with google, microsoft competes with apple.
They have had this same "alliance" for the past decade. - starmanjones, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12>I really don't want Google becoming a part of the "Microsoft vs.
>Apple" drama, and that will happen when they take actions which
>everyone out there will percieve as 'taking sides.'
hmm... i perceive you're taking sides. microsoft is the aggressor. they... invented FUD. microsoft went after google. i would also suggest that when you make a product and sell it making claims of quality and technical superiority when its really just the opposite- costing government billions in tech support, same for business... and private use... that they have acted in an agressive/hostile way to the consumers they force windows on.
that would be the reason mac people rub it in. they coudn't put apple out of business. microsoft is the guilty party attacking apple and google. - countmandible, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3I agree, the author of this article really isn't doing anything but speculating, and there is really not even any documented history of his predicting other such technology advances in the past. Just some dude guessing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Apoogle, Macintoogle, Googltosh
- iam1e3t, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2um...one word: nope
this will never happen...ever. - Toupee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'll give you some iGoo.
- nikebud, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4well... let's see... Apple, although creative, have been catering to the Lowest Common Denominator lately. and they have their monopolistic aspirations.
Google has always been on the cutting edge, until recently, but their coolness factor, and perhaps their growth, is based on their independence.
I don't think their union would be a good thing. "Do no evil" would get diluted to "Do no evil to no one but our ipod users and market share." not a good idea. - saichele, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6goople? gapple? oople?
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Firefox does it, and it's super simple. You just select which one you want from the popup button left of the search window. This popup in Safari only has your search history. In Firefox, it includes selecting your search provider.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1..I wasn't trying to fight them either. Google rules.
- 405994, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google would be better off charging into the hardware world with its own company, and it's own OS.
What would would a google-created OS be called? - computerdude33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Think that may just be because it would be a pain in the ass to configure? The various extensions that do that aren't exactly simple.
- milomilomilo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this may be a little out there, but hear me out:
As is obvious lately, media content is progressively shifting from sitting on a consumers pc, to sitting on some remote server. Who wants to sit and wait for a download to finish in this "I want it and I want it now" society. Next we have google which claims they want to index the internet in its entirety, really, most things would never be found if it wasn't for google. Lets not forget that they have a cached page for most of what is indexed except for video. That is until recently anyway when they purchased youtube, the only thing they could not cache, streaming media.
Now I'm sure many of us have seen some of the older versions of windows and mac emulated on a remote server that we can access thru a browser or similar interface. heck, windows has that built in. It is my speculation that within the next 10 years google will BE the internet. Now stay with me on this. It really is expensive to have to regularly upgrade your hardware, and sometimes a real nuisance for non tech savy customer who know very little about what hardware is suitable to their needs.
Wouldn't it be nice if some other computer could do all that processing for you? That my friends is what google would like to do IMO. You would sign up for an account (subscription per month or something similar) and on on your pc would be little to no OS, maybe just the drivers to run the video on your screen an internet card and a small processor to deal with keyboard input and video rendering and such. You would than log into your google internet account and instead of worrying about the speeds of any given site, they would all be fast as the companies would make their site and register it to googles database where it is stored and accessed by customers, with the blazing speed google is famous for.
This may sound to some like craziness, but it really is the only step forward for google that is left. If you really copnsider the issue you come to the same conclusion, google doesn't want to INDEX the internet... It wants to BE the internet.
Think about it. - renegadeafk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1googleOS
- vare2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Im not talking about Apple here.
- JeffH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I really want to be a pro-analyst. I'd get to sit around all day and say stupid ***** that fanboys dream of (but will most likely never happen), and it makes "front page" news in the tech community.
- KyleGoetz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Say it with me: If someone "generates" a theory, it is not a rumor. Dugg down just for stupid summary.
- ebs16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This reminds me about an article written just over a year ago relating Google, home entertainment, and their data-center-in-shipping-container project. I can't find the original article, but it basically made the case that Google will sell home media hubs that regulate internet access and television for an entire household. Google would track the search and browsing habits of household members and deliver targeted ads to their TV sets during commercial breaks. This would fit in line with A) increasing Google's ad revenue, which is its primary source of income, and B) put their compact shipping container data centers to good use. They could distribute these containers nationally to be easily hooked up to local communications lines to handle local data processing and bandwidth. Targeted ads means more money from advertisers and a small increase in the chance that people might stick around for the ads.
Google + Apple = iTV? - corsairstw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've had this nagging feeling that Steve is going to announce a new feature in iMovie '07 that allows people to upload directly to YouTube. Since that guy from Google is on the Apple board, this doesn't seem too farfetched. I, for one, am definitely expecting great things from Apple and Google.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2They don't already have one?
Safari only does google searching. No configuration options. - andysimmons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1iGoo
- starmanjones, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6>Without Microsoft, Google would be a little pile of crap. Know how
>many people have Apple computers? Know how many more people have
>Windows computers? Dude, think how many millions upon billions of
>dollars Google would not have if it wasn't for Microsoft.
sorry. faulty conclusions. if microsoft didn't exist another company would take their place. i think a case could be made that if microsoft didn't exist that the computers and software would be much better. like or not windows is not as good as OSX or linux or Be... or warp. how many billions and billions of dollars have been lost in productivity as a direct result of windows lamness. how much has been lost by consumers? if microsoft had to conform to product liability standards they would just shut the doors. - andysimmons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/architect
Actually, it is. - nikebud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1um, yeah, maybe google is getting too big for their britches. imagine what the Internet would be like if, suddenly, google ceased to exist. scary thought. Especially now that AT&T is back together, and there are talks of microsoft/yahoo google/apple mergers abounding. The whole "net neutrality" issue is getting more complicated by the day.
poor AOL. - FuzzyCat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Unconfirmed reports are appearing on the street that Steve Jobs may pull a rabbit out of his arse...
... then again he may not.. - peterjhill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/
This story is even better. A great story aboutt scamming scammers. - drcreek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
Also .Mac is a mess. It would be nice to see google take over that since they are sort of king of the web apps at the moment. - starmanjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1bigot
- macinbest, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2LOL RUMORS
- applebyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Big name analyst firms like Merrill Lynch, Piper Jaffray, and UBS have trouble predicting what Apple will do next. What makes you think the predictions by some no name firm called Arnold IT is reliable?
- sparkmonkeyz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7This could be very good for both. It would be a nice way for google to get into hardware and maybe get a hold of some people that aren't engineers, and Apple would have the go with youtube and google video.
- gigamike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1LOL, did anyone find the source a bit odd? I mean some guy who owns a small IT shop in Kentucky makes a guess about some partnership but doesn't have any specifics as to what his guess would be? It's almost as if the article was making fun of the fanboy rumor mill leading up to these shows. LOL, again.
- saichele, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Google has fiber and servers - basically a networked OS. Apple will soon have the iPhone. Now, what if that iPhone made use of networked apps(for example, using a networked app to download a webpage and customize it for the phone prior to loading it on that phone - which would save the client the problem of downloading the entire page and then formatting it - much as Opera is currently doing with their cellphone web app). Imagine tying together a network, a networked OS, Apple's hardware, and a subscription service of some sort. Bingo: domination of the 'content on the fly' domain.
- drcreek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1That means he is either going to announce a partnership with duracell or playboy possibly the easter bunny.
Now a Playboy edition mac would be awesome! -
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