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- inactive, on 07/09/2009, -10/+54Apple: 6% market share
Windows: 85% market share
Yea... I really bet Google's target is apple..... - serif69, on 07/09/2009, -3/+31This seems to have been written by someone who just heard the phrase "operating system" for the first time.
- ChrisLondon, on 07/09/2009, -4/+32"...a bid by Google to keep the Web a viable, robust place — even as users (especially Apple users) are starting to be enticed away from it."
How on earth are Apple users being enticed away from the world wide web? Is this guy really writing for Time magazine or is this a joke? - inactive, on 07/09/2009, -5/+30Can we just give Google it's own category on Digg?
- apzdsx, on 07/09/2009, -3/+24I doubt it'll be able to do B anytime soon.
- Astrad, on 07/09/2009, -0/+20Some people are either posting before reading or too smug to get it. The article isn't saying people won't use the web. It's saying they could potentially move away from 'browsing' the web to using tailored webapps that target particular sets of data (i.e. iphone apps). This would hurt google who would lose ad revenue if this became a significant trend.
- homercles337, on 07/09/2009, -7/+266% is being generous.
- gavintlgold, on 07/09/2009, -0/+17There is an Apple section, so it makes sense...
its* - grimacebrown, on 07/09/2009, -2/+17I'm convinced normal news sources like Time shouldn't be allowed to write tech articles. Leave it to nerds who regularly write for the PC industry...
- zoomaKabu, on 07/09/2009, -3/+17"runs everything Windows does"?? What are you smoking? Don't bogart that joint.
- bmcnally, on 07/09/2009, -0/+12Probably should have used the right form of "its" in your letter.
- CoreyTamas, on 07/09/2009, -3/+13Now... do that same comparison for the mobile phone market.
Still think Google doesn't care about Apple? - Shadoblak, on 07/09/2009, -0/+10That's actually not a bad idea....
- AndrewDB, on 07/09/2009, -0/+10I predict you're going to be wrong.
- glitchbit, on 07/09/2009, -2/+12What? There is a world beyond the U.S.?
- acitodg, on 07/09/2009, -0/+9It does seem like Chrome is getting more and more popular.
- ChrisLondon, on 07/09/2009, -2/+10I couldn't agree more.
"The iPhone is all about apps — not browsing the Web."
I wonder if he knows that the majority of these apps actually actually get their data from the web. - inactive, on 07/09/2009, -2/+10I was being sarcastic, but since you put it that way, yeah, it does kinda make sense.
- dronkmunk, on 07/09/2009, -3/+11July 6th, 2023: Chrome becomes self aware.
- Jektal, on 07/09/2009, -0/+8But circumvent Google Ads
- tnoy, on 07/09/2009, -6/+13Close to 10% last year, Gartner numbers have shown it dropping since 4Q08.
Gartner and IDC peg Apples U.S. market share at around 7.5% - apzdsx, on 07/09/2009, -1/+7Despite what some here on Digg may think (since you're being dugg down), that is true. Just look at uTorrent.
- hoju7887, on 07/09/2009, -0/+6Yeah that's his point. If apps can access the internet for specific reasons, completely circumventing the browser, that's bad news bears for google.
I didn't know a TIME article can fly over so many digg user's heads. - MSP1, on 07/09/2009, -7/+13Only taking current market share into account is a very naive way of looking at things.
- siwasher, on 07/09/2009, -0/+5So grimacbrown's argument is that the author is wrong and stupid. What piercing logic. That'll show 'em.
- FredFredrickson, on 07/09/2009, -0/+510% is the U.S. market share. In the world, it's around 4%.
- diggdatt, on 07/09/2009, -0/+5Exactly its been overdue. This would help filtering, although I dont have a problem seeing their news, but others might not want to.
- FXNGLAS, on 07/09/2009, -0/+5Poorly written article.
- TVarmy, on 07/09/2009, -0/+5Or at least hire a freelancer who knows what he's doing. This is like saying Walmart selling a crappy electric scooter is proof they want to compete with GM.
- RumpleForeskin3, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4Google killed Teddy Cho!!
- TVarmy, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4The thing about Apple is that they put a lot of effort into making sure their interfaces are intuitive and work well. It's true almost all of their products had similar models on the market ahead of them, but usually Apple's take is easier to understand at a glance and easier to use. MP3 players with hard drives were generally a pain to use with larger libraries before Apple introduced the iPod, which offered a precise, scrolling motion to find songs.
It's a bit like the difference between a cheap car that has a cruddy plastic and cloth interior and a nice car with leather and a beautiful instrument panel. Even if the cars handle the same, go at the same speed, and get the same mileage, you're bound to be happier with the car with the nice interior and pay more for that quality.
Personally, I think Apple's future is in consumer electronics mostly. I like their computers, but as more and more of computing moves online, all PCs of the future will need is a good browser and OS won't matter as much. Having hardware that's pleasant to work with is important to people. - Spire3660, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4First of all, its not a 'Hitler' insignia. The swastika design has a history that FAR predates the National Socialist party (Nazis)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika - LOLMadness, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4lol
2022: Google, after being the only company to survive the 2012 disaster besides Apple, and with its mass takeover of the united states, decides to jokingly call itself Skynet in a reference to a movie made back in the mid 1980's
Early 2023: Google (aka Skynet) discovers how to time travel. New line of cyborgs come to the market sporting the new "Google Chrome OS 6" software. - s0ny, on 07/09/2009, -1/+5"A Google OS will hurt Apple more than MS, for at least two reasons:
- Being primarily on netbooks, it won't take a large chunk out of MS's sales, because MS doesn't make a huge business off netbooks"
Yeah, because almost ALL of Apples sales are definitely coming from their awesome cheap Netbooks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
/sarcasm - thomas, on 07/09/2009, -1/+5The person that wrote this article is a dumb ass. Half the crap he says doesn't even make sense. Just reading this part maid my brain hurt.
"Launching its Chrome OS in the second half of 2010 may be simply a bid by Google to keep the Web a viable, robust place — even as users (especially Apple users) are starting to be enticed away from it." - BlackSheep882, on 07/09/2009, -2/+6Mac Software?
LOL - MacParrot, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4I think it will be more about the apps. An OS without apps is pretty useless.
- UnWeave, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3He did say IF, people.
- FredFredrickson, on 07/09/2009, -1/+4Thank you! I love how everyone gets all offended and says the guy doesn't know what he's talking about, when they simply didn't understand what he was saying. The guy made a good observation that most of them would never have caught onto.
- MacParrot, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3First off you CAN build a computer that will run an unmodified version of OS X (EFI-X dongle + recommended hardware set), you CAN (even easier) build a computer to run Linux.
Computer progress has been doing just fine as far as advancement goes unless you meant OS developement and even that's pretty far-fetched since Microsoft has come out with XP (far and away the most popular OS ever), Vista (which has been pretty good since SP2 and the hardware finally caught up to it), Windows 7 (the best OS Microsoft has created up to now), Apple had System 9 (far and away the crashiest OS ever), and OS X (IMO the best OS, but your mileage may vary). That's not even counting the great work the Linux teams have done.
You CAN'T build an OS that will run (unmodified or without a virtual environment) all Windows, Linux, and whatever cloud apps that Google comes out with. Apple DIDN'T create OS X from Linux. You can currently buy computers with a choice of three different OS, Windows, OS X, and Linux making your point of have two choices kinda useless.
Marketshare predictions are entirely useless especially trying to factor in an OS that no one has even seen yet.
Have I covered all the mistakes you made yet? - FredFredrickson, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3Thanks "Googlelady"
- ergo98, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3Android failed miserably? Give me a break.
http://ostatic.com/blog/report-android-now-has-6-p ...
That's with one phone with a lot of weaknesses. In the coming months you'll see handsets from Motorola, Samsung, among a variety of others.
I think you're declaring it a failure a bit prematurely. - glitchbit, on 07/09/2009, -1/+4Apple computers are used by both Professionals and light computer users, the pros being the hardcore original followers. They will stay.
- Samueul, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3This announcement is Google's way of padding their stock price in a ***** financial market... They had to throw out some sort of bone to the shareholders....
- MacParrot, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3Google EFI-X and OS X. You'll find a company that makes (or at least did last I checked) an internal USB dongle that allows (as I said) any computer made from their recommended hardware list to install and boot OS X right from the retail disk. I never said ANY hardware. Comprehension can be your friend.
Linux works just fine for those that prefer and know how to get all the right drivers, so you're wrong there too.
Lastly you left out an apostrophe in "doesn't" and "I'm (didn't capitalize it either) AND also it's "you're" not "your". - LilRabbitFooFoo, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3Who gives a rat's ass in the OPERATING SYSTEM market about MP3 players?! Honestly.
- ontain, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3@Invincible
erm apple is way more locked in than windows.
I can install windows on a mac but OSX is locked into only apple. - evilsnoopi3, on 07/09/2009, -1/+4Buried for pure BS speculation. "Here's a wacky thought:" was there any journalism in that piece of mere fading rag discussion of an industry the author doesn't understand?
Of course Google is worried about the iPhone stealing their ads... that's why they have an ad generator for free *gasp* iPhone apps. Use the Google app on iPhone and watch as it delivers the same targeted advertising of Google right on your iPhone. The free OS is obviously meant to encourage a widespread adoption of the Google cloud for netbook computing. GDocs instead of MS Office, GMail instead of any other mail portal, etc. All of which targets mainly MS products or conventional linux counter-parts.
Now learn what an OS is and STFU. - FredFredrickson, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3The point was that people will stop interacting via a browser, and may shift to a collection of specialized apps. It's certainly possible.
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