OK, I believe I was the first here to start mumbling about Google’s Schmidt being a mole inside of Apple via his board seat, and did that over a year ago.
He is your typical arrogant liberal { unlike Jobs, who is an ATYPICAL arrogant liberal } and like Bill Gates so long ago, was invited into the Cupertino Cafe to “get involved” in the planning and future, AS A BOARD MEMBER. What he did, was glean the ideas, run home to GOOG and tell the eggheads there, “Boys, WE GOTTA GET IN THAT GAME, they have some GREAT IDEAS!” Leading of course, to Google developing CHROME, a rival operating system, and ANDROID another operating system,and even GRABBING AWAY AdMob at the last minute, a company that AAPL had been trying to close a merger with. They they went and got into hardware, and phones.
Typical arrogant liberal “do no evil” but STEAL EVERYTHING, just change the paint on the cars you boosted.
So, GOOGLE is the enemy now?
Most would say so, but old cranky Tan, the Neanderthal knuckle dragging antediluvian dinosaur here on the AFB, has a different perspective here. Let me try and lay that out, so you left coast green boys, can rip into me for being so cranky and cantankerous.
I love Apple, despite it being seen as a bastion of pinko commie greenies and aging flower children. Why? Because they make things that NORMAL PEOPLE { unlike us here, and geeks around the world } can actually pick up, and work, without poring over user manuals, and tweaking and twiddling every obscure setting just to make the darned things work. AND the biggest thing of all, when it doesn’t work, make an appointment at the Apple Store, take the sucker in, give it to the Genius, say to him “Make this WORK please,” and they DO! Praise the Lord, pass the moonshine, and kiss the Genius!
But my “problem” with Apple personally, is their SLOW almost glacial like roll outs of the cutting edge of things, such issues as connectivity with FAST Net Servers, USB3, and other matters, including processors, come AFTER the Windoz people have been selling them for months, sometimes years.
And the penny pinching, like sub par cameras and no flash, and nickel dimeing you to death on peripherals and cables are just annoying.
But now, with ANDROID and CHROME breathing down their necks, and others coming in for BLOOD, Apple cannot afford to sit on their laurels, and leisurely issuing a tweak here, and a diddle there, calling them upgrades. If they don’t hit the metal HARD NOW, and get out and move FASTER than they are used to moving, they will, mark my words here, WILL…be AGAIN where they were when Bill Gates the MOLE, came in a grabbed the GUI and MOUSE and took away their markets, or when VHS took BETAMAX to the cleaners. Being “better” is only a temporary situation in these arenea’s you have to be WAY BETTER, MUCH FASTER, and move so fast the “Jonny-come-latelies” cannot catch you. Recently, that hasn’t been the case.
So, as much as I despise GOOG and their underhanded ways, IF THE BOYS AT CUPERTINO are as P.O.‘ed as the press makes them out to be, the next round of “improvements” needs to be full bore ahead, MOVE UP all the pending goodies, and LOAD UP this years releases with EVERYTHING.
But the iPad shows me that they haven’t learned that lesson yet. You have a camera that isn’t there, connectivity in and out limited, and they plan on nickel and dimeing you death with the cables, and input output devices.
Maybe GOOG needs to nip at their heels even more?
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