Comments on: Apple+Google: Now That's Hot

By: Dempsey

Dempsey — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:12:03 +0000

If this means they'll finally get GTalk and the Picasa desktop app for the Mac, it's good news.

By: blemmy

blemmy — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:14:11 +0000

Google is going to take over the world.

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By: Harrison Dwyer

Harrison Dwyer — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:56:42 +0000

I wonder how OpenOffice plays into this. It has far higher penetration than either Google's apps or Mac OS...

By: Tom B

Tom B — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:57:25 +0000

"I just switched from Outlook to GMail and GCal. It’s spectacular. Everyone I know has a GCal and we coordinate with unimagined ease. This is the way office software should work."

You are SO right. I use MS Outlook at work-- product, it seems EVERY business HAS to use-- and it's simply awful.

By: Jesse Beach

Jesse Beach — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 19:31:10 +0000

I just switched from Outlook to GMail and GCal. It's spectacular. Everyone I know has a GCal and we coordinate with unimagined ease. This is the way office software should work.

By: Steve Atkinson

Steve Atkinson — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:33:20 +0000

I'm not convinced that online apps are the way to go. It seems to be the direction that some would like us to go, but what's wrong with the apps on the computer. If the internet is down or slow, you still can work. All I've seen with the online apps, especially the ones from google are slow. Even with gmail, I find it easier to use after the mail is downloaded to my email client.

By: jim

jim — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:16:47 +0000

itd be ill to publish docs to google docs from pages/iwork

By: Patrick Hunt

Patrick Hunt — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:17:00 +0000

Here's the way this should go down, IMO. ;-)

The current .mac is completely replaced with a new version that includes Apple-branded versions of many apps "Powered by Google' plus some other apps. For example, Apple's .mac webmail replaced with Gmail that looks like Apple and works like Gmail. The new .mac includes Google Office, etc.

Apple's desktop apps are updated to include tight integration between the desktop and webtop. So, in Pages, you can choose to sync the file with .mac, which in fact syncs it with Google Docs, and you can choose to share it or keep it private. All files designated for sync can be automatically done so using .mac sync services, and sessions can also be managed... leave the office, commute home, and voila, you've got the exact same version of a file whether you access it via .mac or your local app.

This integration will occur over multiple apps: Pages > Docs, Keynote > a Google slideshow app, a new Apple spreadsheet app > Spreadsheets, Mail > Gmail, iCal > Google Calendar, iPhoto > Picasa, and so on. The real killer app in all of this will be that Apple + Google will support APIs for connectivity via other apps. Apple won't make a "clipping" application, but Yojimbo, which already supports .mac sync services, will sync with Google Notebook.

And to boot, all of this interconnectivity will be one of the secret features of Leopard announced at WWDC this coming week. And coming soon to an iPhone near you...

By: Sebhelyesfarku

Sebhelyesfarku — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:46:29 +0000

WTF cares about Apple and Google.

By: Dimitris

Dimitris — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:44:09 +0000

As someone said earlier great things can come about if brilliant engineers meet up with brilliant design. Their primary goal will not be to beat down MS - but it'll be their secondary one, anything to better their chances of corporate survival.

What I do worry about though is if there's any room left for the small guy who wants to contribute when the merges and the cooperations start. And the question is obviously already here when the major players are still 3 instead of 2. Are we just constantly waiting for the next big thing from the old big sources?

By: Markus Goebel

Markus Goebel — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:31:37 +0000

I am so bored by the OS discussion and use always the same apps on Linux, Win and Symbian phone: Email, Office and Browser. Mostly GMail, Openoffice and Firefox. I switch my OS constantly with few problems.

By: Berges

Berges — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:30:18 +0000

True Google is a much better corporate than Microsoft! Google does complement Apple's work but it sure is working against Microsoft.. Does seem like enemy of my enemy is a Friend!!! hope in the end its us consumers who benefit

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:19:58 +0000

The Swiss Army Knife of search engines – Google is an amazing, powerful search tool for internet users. Google is so huge and offers so many free apps. Can’t be beat! I love Google…. come on… it’s a verb in the dictionary for goodness sake.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:06:50 +0000

I guess I'm confused here. Don't you already get all of Google's stuff for free?

What's the sales pitch here? "Buy a .Mac account now we'll show you how to sign up for Google's free internet apps!"

Wooptee frickin do. If I wanted adware, I'd already have a Google account. Nothing turns me off faster than ads; that's why I pay for the services I use.

Google taking over .Mac. Ick,

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:33:14 +0000

I never thought Steve Jobs ever wanted to rule the word much like Bill Gates did. Instead he wanted to make cool products. He has done this, and the world is a better place because of him. I think Google is the next Microsoft except a kinder gentler one. The strange thing is that it complements what Apple is doing, instead of trying to kill it like Microsoft did.

By: atmasphere

atmasphere — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:04:22 +0000

The Google Office suite has a long way to go compared to MS Office, but I am hooked on Gmail, Reader and Calendar currently and am all Mac.... I'd like to see .Mac get a complete overhaul or simply merge into what Google can do. Bring it on!