Calling the Android Market a “copycat” of the iTunes App Store seems about as realistic as calling the App Store a copycat of Cydia or Installer. Or Apt-get. The idea of software repositories has been around for a while, and Apple wasn’t even the frst to bring the concept to their own phone.
The AppStore was a copycat of “Installer”… in fact, Apple hired several people involved in the early days of jailbreaking to develop their AppStore. With that in mind, Google certainly was a copycat with their Android Store in that they understood that native apps for mobile devices were a “game changer”. The problem for Android and Google? There’s no innovation in copying.
But you’ve got to consider that Google built Android from the ground up to allow app developers to create native (and web-based) apps, oblivious of the inclusion of the Android Market, Android devices have always allowed you to install your own applications (as .apk files), without the need for rooting your device, unless you need to access some restricted parts of the OS/hardware, such as for WiFi Tethering.
Apple, on the other hand, needed a big kick up the backside before they allowed native apps, which is something people seem to forget when crediting them with ‘innovating’ a Linux package manager-like service which supports paid products (and ties users into iTunes, with a restrictive censoring policy, even requiring devs to sign a horrible NDA early on).
the question is, was AppStore what made iPhone very popular or it’s the other way around? as far as i remember people wanted to get an iPhone with it’s basic features no matter what, then when it was jailbreaked apple thought of that AppStore and started working on it without prior planning which helped the iPhone sales, yet we have to consider that you must be Apple Developer with a MAC OS platform and experience to develop applications for the iPhone, the story is totally different with Google as they have been planning all the way to invade the smart phone market, that is why they are doing it right, first an OS (Andriod), then a device (Nexus Phone) followed by Application Store (Andriod Market ) which puts every developer into the Andriod market which is really open source
That’s a straw man. Apt and all the others you listed are just package/dependency managers.
The app store itself is only half of what made the app store groundbreaking. The other, far more important aspect is the API and developer environment. Granted, Android has a similar tool chain, but it’s still Google taking up something that Apple did right.
The app store wasn’t original or groundbreaking in any way. BREW and J2ME phones have had app stores YEARS before Apple even started developing the iPhone. Apple also dragged its feet releasing an SDK – the API and dev environment is certainly not unique or even well done for the iPhone. Android’s SDK and APIs are lightyears ahead of the iPhone’s
Jobs seems a bit paranoid about Google, given that Android is pretty primitive at this time. But primitive was enough for MSFT to get Windows into Enterprise, and enough to keep Windows there, even though it is FAR inferior to every other commercial OS. Maybe a little paranoia is a good thing. Let us work now to prevent USERS from getting stuck on some second-rate system, like Android, by taking our collective eyes “off the ball”, as they say in sports.
Tom B what are you talking about microsoft is the most inferior OS? i think you will find that the Mac OS is far more inferior, stop being an apple fanboy!
it all based on opinion i prefer linux over either yes macs are expensive but they have great software and windows does have its ups and downs… example: this non-commercial program has been infected with a trojan slowing down the computer of anyone who uses the program but the program is very useful while mac may not be able to be infected by it it also cant use it because it was .exe file. I’m not a fanboy,that word sounds gay, i just use products i feel better suit my need. i do not own a mac, because my computers specs and OS,linux,in my opinion are better for my purposes then a mac or windows running computer.i do own an ipad because i like the portability of the ipad and i especial love capacitive touch screens.
Each OS has it’s faults and weaknesses. Both can do nearly identical tasks, and both have things they can’t do. To call one inferior to the other is just a show of your opinion. I love my MacBook Pro. And I also love Windows 7 that runs on it. There’s nothing stopping people from seeing the flaws and strengths of each platform.
And “Mac” doesn’t overprice anything. Seeing as the name of the company is ‘Apple’. And their products are pricier… But Mercedes and BMW don’t catch shit for their cars being more expensive, do they? It’s all about the insides of the product. And I’d rather have a solid aluminum laptop running 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, a 2.4 GHz processor, 320 GB hard drive, and a 5.5 hour battery that will last me 5 years at the least (regardless of OS) than a cheap, plastic, underpowered craptop that’s bound to die in under 3 hours and be out of commission in less than 3 years.
If you can find a company that can give me that caliber hardware (all aspects considered) for any less than what Apple sells their laptops for, then I’ll eat my words. But I seriously doubt you’ll find another premium laptop company that can match Apple.
And Tom B,
Where do you get off calling Android a second-rate system? People who even care the slightest bit about having power over their mobile OS can realize that you get far more freedom with Android than anyone ever has with iPhone OS. I owned an iPhone from the start. I bought into the hype. And after 2 years, I was tired of being told what I can and can’t do to my phone. Now I’ve got a Droid running Android 2.0.1 and there isn’t a thing you could think of having a phone do that this thing can’t handle.
I hope anyone reading this can take a step back and consider all the facts and have a little perspective before jumping at the chance to rip either side to shreds.
Anyway, yeah Tom, do a little research before u blast the most popular OS out there (its the most popular for a reason, you know!?)
I’d also like to say that Steve Job’s recent comments on google are false. Google bought Android Inc. in 2005, TWO YEARS before the iPhone was introduced. So it appears they intended to enter the phone market before they even knew about the iphone.
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OM, your great presentation shows why iPad will be a huge success. It’s all about how the content is displyed. And at that game, Apple will beat over and over again any competition. Google will do good in phone (and even Microsoft too)… but in a set of rules defined by Apple.
How the content is displayed doesn’t matter if you can’t view it (i.e. Flash). Not allowing Flash is just another way to force people to get anything they need from the app store.
Apple’s actions today are not those of a “supposed rival”. Filing two patent infringement lawsuits with 20 patents against the predominant maker of the Google’s Android phones and citing those phones as exhibits and demanding injunctions to stop the sale of those phones are not the actions of a friend. Many of the patents in the lawsuits, particularly the ITC lawsuit, directly address functionality of the Android OS not of HTC hardware.
Remember Google doesn’t sell Android. Apple sued the company that has the revenue stream not the open-source repository.
Apple sued Google today (albeit by proxy). There is no doubt of the target of these lawsuits.
I hope Apple enters the Search and the Email market.
All I use Google for is Search and Email. Oh and Google Reader.
And Google Talk. And Calendar. And Maps. And YouTube. And Google Docs. And Book Search. And Google Groups. And Google News. And Website Optimizer. And GOOG-411.
But as soon as Apple replaces all of that, I AM JUMPING SHIP.
Does anyone actually like the iPhone for it’s calling or it’s apps? Let me give you a hint it was rated the worlds WORST cell phone and at the same time the BEST pocket pc. Maybe Jobs an co should focus more on the iPhone doing the main thing it’s supposed to do.
Much of the telephony related problems with the iPhone can be traced to AT&T. Their network has continually had connectivity problems since the Cingular days. Sure they have the faster 3G network, but that doesn’t matter if you can’t stay connected.
Sorry but the quotes at the 1/30 date were attributed to Steve Jobs from a unidentified source. It is not a direct quote. Anyway, Thanks – girl fight rowwwr! :)
Google are going to get too big for their boots, spread themselves too thing and ultimately people will and are getting sick of them and they will end up getting anti Google. They are becoming big bully’s on the quiet. I am all for competition but they are trying to jump on every success someone else produces. Free does not necessarily equal quality. If only Google didn’t try and do everything they would be more liked.
Google lays fiber, opens its pipes to competing ISPs and wireless providers. The providers allow chrome and android devices to access the network with voice and data at extremely competitive rates (read – extreme cost savings vs the AT&T/iPhone data plan). Seems like Google may be content to build Apple’s walled garden higher for them if Apple continues to be locked into AT&T. If I can get unlimited voice and data for $30 per month, I’ll take it…
More like apple fanboys united just cause you did it first doesn’t mean someone else can’t do it better and really the ipad. I have a tablet from 1996 that’s more capable than that thing but again people love to buy a name not a product.
This time around, Google’s gonna bludgeon Apple so bad that Apple’s gonna go begging to Google to give it money to survive, just like Apple asked Microsoft for money a while back.
Steve Jobs has been selling Macs with punch line of “Higher GHz does not mean high performance” to take on Intel with their PowerPC for ages. And then suddenly adopted Intel!! Well Mr. Jobs, the day you could come up with a product to compete with Google search you wouldn’t blink once to enter into the market!!
The processor shift had a lot to do with neither IBM or Motorola having ANY kind of low-power high speed chip that would go into laptops beyond the G4. The then-shipping G5 chips, if put into a laptop would melt the case, set your pants on fire and have a battery life of about 45 minutes. Apple knew it was in trouble when the first generation of G5 iMacs had all sorts of heat-related issues. i.e. fried motherboards and mid-planes. And Wintel laptops were surging ahead in processor speeds.
Hey OM, the dates seems to be skewed to show Android isn’t that late to the game. If you are going to use Apple iPhone release and Android unveil, then you should add:
Apple UNVEILS iPhone in January 2007
First phone to run Android released October 2008
Google didn’t just attack Apple. They’re also working on their operating system, which was to attack Microsoft Windows. They’re not trying to squash one particular thing, they’re simply trying to become a huge player in the IT world (as if they weren’t already). How else does one go about doing that? Attacking one of the current players in a particular area.
With that said, I would NOT mind this in the least. Google has not had any major issues with disclosure of private information, screwing of the American public, overcharging for services (they freakin offer Google Voice for FREE!!!) or any other crazy things or scandals. (though give them time, I’m sure..) Microsoft has proven that they don’t mind sellin you crap software until they decide to release the next version, for even more money!! And Apple? Well. Yeah. They’re trying to shut Flash Player down. Not like jump into their market (like google v. apple), just close them down completely..the bastards! Maybe they should check into rewriting their EULA instead of just shutting something down completely..but what do I know?
“Google has not had any major issues with disclosure of private information”
They seem to have made a misstep in that area with Buzz.
And like many, I do have issues with Apple over their quite deliberate omission of Flash, even though as a designer and developer, Flash IS something of a pain in the butt.
Google’s “Do No Evil” mantra isn’t a bunch of crap. It’s a direct attack at the closed nature of the iPhone, and Apple products in general. Google also offers their own office suit, aimed to replace Microsoft software.
Google’s “Do No Evil” mantra is going to be driving the electronic world into an Open-Source place, where no corporation has the final say, and where the people are given a platform on which to drive the media, as opposed to the media driving the people.
Yeah, so tell me how you can get access to Google’s search algorithms again, so we call all work collaboratively to make all search engines better. I thought Google was all about Open Source?
Oh that’s right. Google uses “open source” to hook the native into supporting rather proprietary business models.
Why am I not concerned about Google? Because while I always taught that Microsoft put out lame copycat products, Google’s products are really simply inferior. In fact they are so inferior that they make Microsoft’s products look good.
Half baked/betas describes almost all of Google’s software efforts to date and even the Nexus One.
Yep, Google’s so lame that I bet you can do better, can’t you?
No software has ever born mature, and many Google betas are just successful (e.g. Android has been adopted by some major companies, this does mean something, doesn’t it?).
You can say what you want, but the facts are that Google is still largely used.
Google doesn’t care about money as much as Apple does. They are interested in providing good simple software. Android btw, is AMAZING and can easily compete and BEAT the iphone. The nexus one beat the iPhone when tested by cnet.
Google is great company with good intentions. Apple is evil.
As long as Google keeps its head straight and not be lead off track they will do wonders.
Ok, Android is FREE… Google isn’t trying to make money with it. They’re just providing competition in the mobile OS market (very good competition, mind you).
And as long as you search the web, Google will be making money. They have ads on thousands of websites, and own companies that have ads on many more. They have the cash influx they need to spend all the time they want developing products for any market they set their sights on.
Google, at this point, is a technological supergiant playing the field and seeing if they strike gold.
And Google offering this amount of stress on existing competition is exciting to see happen. Especially in the case of their recent fiber-optic network announcement. Pressure on current companies drives competition, and ultimately the consumer will win.
I hope they do kill apple, it would be nice to force people to look at products again instead of just grabbing something with a lower case i infront of it.
Right. Apple’s overpriced, shiny-but-shallow, and increasingly poorly-conceived products (iPad, anyone?) are going to destroy the segment of the market that caters to low cost and utility.
Also, Apple CANNOT kill Google unless they get into (and dominate) the Internet search and advertisement market. And we know that, if Apple rolled out a search engine, it would only have one button — iLucky.
The big question is who gets the full size projector screen first. Here we see shipments going out this week to Uniden/Mint – http://img70.yfrog.com/i/qsm.jpg/
Next up is Vodafone, and then Motorola? How long until Apple gets their’s?
I would love to see Google kill the iPhone, if only because the entirety of Apple seems to have their heads so far up their asses that it’d take one of their flagship products failing to make them stop being so self-masturbatory all the time.
Dont worry, the iPad seems like it will do just that. Just look at the Lenovo U1 Hybrid IdeaPad. This is where innovation has come gone. Apples Ipad has nothing except a better price point. All other features are sub-par.
Competition and rivalry like this is great for consumers, and for technology in general. It encourages companies to sell better products, give a better service, and charge lower prices. When one company has a monopoly, consumers get screwed.
Fall 2010: Apple whips out a patent suit against Google for copying the look and feel of the UI;
Spring 2011: a bemused Microsoft whips out a mother of all lawsuits covering the ‘click to close’ feature that M$ patented in the early 1990s….
Fall 2011: Linux kernel architect Linus Torvalds turns his back on the GNU party that he helped elevate from dust, Torvalds accepts a position in the remaining dregs of Xerox PARC; develops a touch oriented UI which never closes anything, it all runs concurrently and is merely forgrounded or backgrounded.
I love the graphics, very refreshing.
At the end Google will find Apple a much tougher nut to crack than any other competitors they have dealt with so far. Apple has a long history of beating the odds. Don’t mess with Steve!
“Android btw, is AMAZING and can easily compete and BEAT the iphone. The nexus one beat the iPhone when tested by cnet.”
That’s very funny! Believing anything your read on Cnet. I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you! Rule one of tech investing: only believe technically competent, reasonably unbiased sources. This pretty much eliminates CNet, Thurott, Dvorak, Gartner, Forrester, The Register. Better yet, test things out in the stores yourself! There’s lots of money in tech; lots of people who profit by spreading disinformation.
Google isn’t being evil by any stretch of the imagination. They’re trying to make space in an area that’s claimed by two deeply entrenched corporations, and so they gotta swing their elbows and dig in a bit to get a place to plant their feet. It’s called competition, and it’s a good thing.
Frankly, Apple needs to be threatened with destruction. They’ve gone totally off the rails and become insufferably arrogant. The iPhone is highly mediocre (albeit shiny) and the iPad seems to be little more than the iPhone writ large. Their computers are well-built, yes, but not worth the premium you pay. But people drink this ridiculous Kool-Aid and believe that Apple is something more than a designer label slapped onto the same mass-market consumer electronics that everybody else in the developed world has in their pockets and on their desks, and the market suffers. WE suffer.
Google’s model poses a threat not only to the sales numbers and marketshare of Apple, but more importantly to the philosophy. If Google can force Apple to open up somewhat and come off their crazy little cloud, then we all benefit.
With all that being said, i would like to add that, although not directly google, a new tablet has been anounced that is suposed to be substanciably better than ipad, notion’s ink. Guess what its running for an os. Android.
This is going to be an interesting ride. The final quote gets me (I realize it’s not a direct quote but it conveys the sentiment that it feels like Jobs has). It seems to me that Apple just can’t handle real competition. When the Ipod hit, it was sleeker and had a better interface than anything on the market. That’s why it dominated. (Not to mention that Microsoft sent its finest retards to create the competitor). It’s been the same story with everything they’ve tried. But now, they’re going against a company with a track record of not only well designed products, but insanely popular ones as well. They’re just concerned that their “make it shiny and milk it for all it’s worth” strategy isn’t going to work when they’re directly competing with Google. And you know what? They’re right.
xx google wants to be everything…yeah they can try but except the search engine (irreplaceable ) everything else google is CRAP…lamebrains cant think something for them selves…. copied the iphone now the ipad whats next? implanting an apple sign in the “o” of the goOgle…hahahaa
One wonders whether Google… or Apple, both of which seem to have a fairly sever case of Us vs Everybody lately, are getting close to acquiring a critical mass of enemies.
There needs to be SOME cooperation out there or things start to fall apart.
I’m just glad apple is saying they won’t let google kill the iPhone. That just means that to compete, it will keep getting better and better, and I’ll Love it more and more!
wow !! surprised to know readers’ opinion. somehow was thinking that in a ‘Google vs Apple’ war everyone will side with Apple.
Glad to note folks like Google as much.
Apple has disappointed me in recent days with their completely closed systems, everything aimed as squeezing-money-out-of-consumer model & innovating on nothing more than just flashiness and sleekness.
Some news missing on the graphic: Chrome already passed Safari in market share and Apple is flirting with making Bing the default search engine on the iPhone.
Someone must kill Apple and it’s will to control the world, control you cable, your files, your devices and everything.
The best company is GOogle… and yes, if you thing forward, Google is not being evil at all. People must figure this out…
“well i love apple too. so wouldn’t it be great if google and apple joined forces to fight microsoft.”
I thought that was supposed to be the plan! I think Eric Schmidt had a few too many joints at Burning Man when he was diddling his mistress. He can’t tell Steve Jobs from Steve Ballmer anymore. Hint: one has more hair and sells products that actually WORK.
Awesome info-graphic. Love these things!
Great graphic.
Let’s be happy that we are the beneficiaries of this battle.
Haha I agree. I’m loving all of the new releases out, I already have 4 ipads :)
Cool. Finally some competition (unless this becomes a duopoly).
And this is just the beginning. (where’s my “eating popcorn” emoticon?) :)
Calling the Android Market a “copycat” of the iTunes App Store seems about as realistic as calling the App Store a copycat of Cydia or Installer. Or Apt-get. The idea of software repositories has been around for a while, and Apple wasn’t even the frst to bring the concept to their own phone.
The AppStore was a copycat of “Installer”… in fact, Apple hired several people involved in the early days of jailbreaking to develop their AppStore. With that in mind, Google certainly was a copycat with their Android Store in that they understood that native apps for mobile devices were a “game changer”. The problem for Android and Google? There’s no innovation in copying.
But you’ve got to consider that Google built Android from the ground up to allow app developers to create native (and web-based) apps, oblivious of the inclusion of the Android Market, Android devices have always allowed you to install your own applications (as .apk files), without the need for rooting your device, unless you need to access some restricted parts of the OS/hardware, such as for WiFi Tethering.
Apple, on the other hand, needed a big kick up the backside before they allowed native apps, which is something people seem to forget when crediting them with ‘innovating’ a Linux package manager-like service which supports paid products (and ties users into iTunes, with a restrictive censoring policy, even requiring devs to sign a horrible NDA early on).
the question is, was AppStore what made iPhone very popular or it’s the other way around? as far as i remember people wanted to get an iPhone with it’s basic features no matter what, then when it was jailbreaked apple thought of that AppStore and started working on it without prior planning which helped the iPhone sales, yet we have to consider that you must be Apple Developer with a MAC OS platform and experience to develop applications for the iPhone, the story is totally different with Google as they have been planning all the way to invade the smart phone market, that is why they are doing it right, first an OS (Andriod), then a device (Nexus Phone) followed by Application Store (Andriod Market ) which puts every developer into the Andriod market which is really open source
That’s a straw man. Apt and all the others you listed are just package/dependency managers.
The app store itself is only half of what made the app store groundbreaking. The other, far more important aspect is the API and developer environment. Granted, Android has a similar tool chain, but it’s still Google taking up something that Apple did right.
Would you prefer Google took up something not done right instead?
The app store wasn’t original or groundbreaking in any way. BREW and J2ME phones have had app stores YEARS before Apple even started developing the iPhone. Apple also dragged its feet releasing an SDK – the API and dev environment is certainly not unique or even well done for the iPhone. Android’s SDK and APIs are lightyears ahead of the iPhone’s
Great graphic. Have you thought about collaborating with the artist from theoatmeal.com?
This sort of thing is what sets GigaOM apart of other blogs – very cool content.
Jobs seems a bit paranoid about Google, given that Android is pretty primitive at this time. But primitive was enough for MSFT to get Windows into Enterprise, and enough to keep Windows there, even though it is FAR inferior to every other commercial OS. Maybe a little paranoia is a good thing. Let us work now to prevent USERS from getting stuck on some second-rate system, like Android, by taking our collective eyes “off the ball”, as they say in sports.
Apple Fanboy Above. Read with a very large grain of salt.
Tom B what are you talking about microsoft is the most inferior OS? i think you will find that the Mac OS is far more inferior, stop being an apple fanboy!
google fanboy above. read with two very large grains of salt.
hahahh Apple fan boy indeed
Apple fanboy. Mac is by far the most inferior, and windows is at the top for OS. Mac also overprices on everything.
Just because you can’t afford Apple’s hardware doesn’t make it expensive or overpriced.
it all based on opinion i prefer linux over either yes macs are expensive but they have great software and windows does have its ups and downs… example: this non-commercial program has been infected with a trojan slowing down the computer of anyone who uses the program but the program is very useful while mac may not be able to be infected by it it also cant use it because it was .exe file. I’m not a fanboy,that word sounds gay, i just use products i feel better suit my need. i do not own a mac, because my computers specs and OS,linux,in my opinion are better for my purposes then a mac or windows running computer.i do own an ipad because i like the portability of the ipad and i especial love capacitive touch screens.
rant
Each OS has it’s faults and weaknesses. Both can do nearly identical tasks, and both have things they can’t do. To call one inferior to the other is just a show of your opinion. I love my MacBook Pro. And I also love Windows 7 that runs on it. There’s nothing stopping people from seeing the flaws and strengths of each platform.
And “Mac” doesn’t overprice anything. Seeing as the name of the company is ‘Apple’. And their products are pricier… But Mercedes and BMW don’t catch shit for their cars being more expensive, do they? It’s all about the insides of the product. And I’d rather have a solid aluminum laptop running 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, a 2.4 GHz processor, 320 GB hard drive, and a 5.5 hour battery that will last me 5 years at the least (regardless of OS) than a cheap, plastic, underpowered craptop that’s bound to die in under 3 hours and be out of commission in less than 3 years.
If you can find a company that can give me that caliber hardware (all aspects considered) for any less than what Apple sells their laptops for, then I’ll eat my words. But I seriously doubt you’ll find another premium laptop company that can match Apple.
And Tom B,
Where do you get off calling Android a second-rate system? People who even care the slightest bit about having power over their mobile OS can realize that you get far more freedom with Android than anyone ever has with iPhone OS. I owned an iPhone from the start. I bought into the hype. And after 2 years, I was tired of being told what I can and can’t do to my phone. Now I’ve got a Droid running Android 2.0.1 and there isn’t a thing you could think of having a phone do that this thing can’t handle.
I hope anyone reading this can take a step back and consider all the facts and have a little perspective before jumping at the chance to rip either side to shreds.
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I love the “rant /rant” code lingo.
Anyway, yeah Tom, do a little research before u blast the most popular OS out there (its the most popular for a reason, you know!?)
I’d also like to say that Steve Job’s recent comments on google are false. Google bought Android Inc. in 2005, TWO YEARS before the iPhone was introduced. So it appears they intended to enter the phone market before they even knew about the iphone.
I wonder what they would achieve if they worked together on some things. Maps integration with the iphone is hardly collaboration.
Greetings everyone … thanks for your kind comments and I am glad you like the graphic and our efforts to diversify a little bit from the routine blog content.
OM, keep going like this and we’ll all be stuck to this blog!!! Just like body language in public speaking, presentation matters as much as words.
Nice. Join Business Week and the NYT in the line:
Ahem.
http://ebooktest.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/ahem/
Yup this is right on the mark. Great time line and content contrast.
I like the graphic and would like to see more of them.
OM, your great presentation shows why iPad will be a huge success. It’s all about how the content is displyed. And at that game, Apple will beat over and over again any competition. Google will do good in phone (and even Microsoft too)… but in a set of rules defined by Apple.
How the content is displayed doesn’t matter if you can’t view it (i.e. Flash). Not allowing Flash is just another way to force people to get anything they need from the app store.
Yeah, like not allowing Flash prevented Apple from selling 75 million iPhones and iPod touches in less than 3 years.
RE: Lava
The iPhone and iPod Touch aren’t being marketed as being some kind of viable replacement for a netbook or laptop, either.
I think you’re making WAY too much out of this supposed rivalry.
Apple’s actions today are not those of a “supposed rival”. Filing two patent infringement lawsuits with 20 patents against the predominant maker of the Google’s Android phones and citing those phones as exhibits and demanding injunctions to stop the sale of those phones are not the actions of a friend. Many of the patents in the lawsuits, particularly the ITC lawsuit, directly address functionality of the Android OS not of HTC hardware.
Remember Google doesn’t sell Android. Apple sued the company that has the revenue stream not the open-source repository.
Apple sued Google today (albeit by proxy). There is no doubt of the target of these lawsuits.
Whether Apple wins or Google wins – WE win!
No, we LOSE! Apple and Google are trying their hardest to create walled gardens and lock-in.
You somehow forgot Apple’s acquisition of LaLa which Google tried to buy.
I hope Apple enters the Search and the Email market.
All I use Google for is Search and Email. Oh and Google Reader.
And Google Talk. And Calendar. And Maps. And YouTube. And Google Docs. And Book Search. And Google Groups. And Google News. And Website Optimizer. And GOOG-411.
But as soon as Apple replaces all of that, I AM JUMPING SHIP.
I’m reflexively hearing the theme from “Family Guy.”
What about the Chrome OS? That will compete big time with the iPad.
Does anyone actually like the iPhone for it’s calling or it’s apps? Let me give you a hint it was rated the worlds WORST cell phone and at the same time the BEST pocket pc. Maybe Jobs an co should focus more on the iPhone doing the main thing it’s supposed to do.
Much of the telephony related problems with the iPhone can be traced to AT&T. Their network has continually had connectivity problems since the Cingular days. Sure they have the faster 3G network, but that doesn’t matter if you can’t stay connected.
Sorry but the quotes at the 1/30 date were attributed to Steve Jobs from a unidentified source. It is not a direct quote. Anyway, Thanks – girl fight rowwwr! :)
Brilliant, missing is Apples acquisition of Lala
It will be fun to watch the cerebral fight.
Google are going to get too big for their boots, spread themselves too thing and ultimately people will and are getting sick of them and they will end up getting anti Google. They are becoming big bully’s on the quiet. I am all for competition but they are trying to jump on every success someone else produces. Free does not necessarily equal quality. If only Google didn’t try and do everything they would be more liked.
Well, this is how I see it:
Google lays fiber, opens its pipes to competing ISPs and wireless providers. The providers allow chrome and android devices to access the network with voice and data at extremely competitive rates (read – extreme cost savings vs the AT&T/iPhone data plan). Seems like Google may be content to build Apple’s walled garden higher for them if Apple continues to be locked into AT&T. If I can get unlimited voice and data for $30 per month, I’ll take it…
wow, the fight has only begun
I wonder when facebook is going to have a phone?
Soon. They’re going to call it Phonebook.
that was brilliant! lol great giggler!
More like apple fanboys united just cause you did it first doesn’t mean someone else can’t do it better and really the ipad. I have a tablet from 1996 that’s more capable than that thing but again people love to buy a name not a product.
This time around, Google’s gonna bludgeon Apple so bad that Apple’s gonna go begging to Google to give it money to survive, just like Apple asked Microsoft for money a while back.
Awesome graphics!
Cool graphic, but seriously, whoever made this has too much time on their hands.
I echo @ak — that is an awesome graphic, your graphic designer and producers who put this together did a great job!
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Steve Jobs has been selling Macs with punch line of “Higher GHz does not mean high performance” to take on Intel with their PowerPC for ages. And then suddenly adopted Intel!! Well Mr. Jobs, the day you could come up with a product to compete with Google search you wouldn’t blink once to enter into the market!!
The processor shift had a lot to do with neither IBM or Motorola having ANY kind of low-power high speed chip that would go into laptops beyond the G4. The then-shipping G5 chips, if put into a laptop would melt the case, set your pants on fire and have a battery life of about 45 minutes. Apple knew it was in trouble when the first generation of G5 iMacs had all sorts of heat-related issues. i.e. fried motherboards and mid-planes. And Wintel laptops were surging ahead in processor speeds.
Steve asked IBM and Motorola “Well?”
They said, “We got nuthin.”
Hello, Intel.
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Hey OM, the dates seems to be skewed to show Android isn’t that late to the game. If you are going to use Apple iPhone release and Android unveil, then you should add:
Apple UNVEILS iPhone in January 2007
First phone to run Android released October 2008
or how the sales stack up:
http://obamapacman.com/2010/02/nexus-one-sales-fail-comparing-iphone-droid-n1-first-month-demand/
Google didn’t just attack Apple. They’re also working on their operating system, which was to attack Microsoft Windows. They’re not trying to squash one particular thing, they’re simply trying to become a huge player in the IT world (as if they weren’t already). How else does one go about doing that? Attacking one of the current players in a particular area.
With that said, I would NOT mind this in the least. Google has not had any major issues with disclosure of private information, screwing of the American public, overcharging for services (they freakin offer Google Voice for FREE!!!) or any other crazy things or scandals. (though give them time, I’m sure..) Microsoft has proven that they don’t mind sellin you crap software until they decide to release the next version, for even more money!! And Apple? Well. Yeah. They’re trying to shut Flash Player down. Not like jump into their market (like google v. apple), just close them down completely..the bastards! Maybe they should check into rewriting their EULA instead of just shutting something down completely..but what do I know?
“Google has not had any major issues with disclosure of private information”
They seem to have made a misstep in that area with Buzz.
And like many, I do have issues with Apple over their quite deliberate omission of Flash, even though as a designer and developer, Flash IS something of a pain in the butt.
besides.. who else is doing THIS.. http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi ??
Google’s “Do No Evil” mantra isn’t a bunch of crap. It’s a direct attack at the closed nature of the iPhone, and Apple products in general. Google also offers their own office suit, aimed to replace Microsoft software.
Google’s “Do No Evil” mantra is going to be driving the electronic world into an Open-Source place, where no corporation has the final say, and where the people are given a platform on which to drive the media, as opposed to the media driving the people.
I hope so :)
I just hate how Apple is moving in the market, they are as nasty as Microsoft.
Yeah, so tell me how you can get access to Google’s search algorithms again, so we call all work collaboratively to make all search engines better. I thought Google was all about Open Source?
Oh that’s right. Google uses “open source” to hook the native into supporting rather proprietary business models.
interesting. . . how google i think has been out longer than apple and they are going against each other. .
be blessed!
Why am I not concerned about Google? Because while I always taught that Microsoft put out lame copycat products, Google’s products are really simply inferior. In fact they are so inferior that they make Microsoft’s products look good.
Half baked/betas describes almost all of Google’s software efforts to date and even the Nexus One.
Yep, Google’s so lame that I bet you can do better, can’t you?
No software has ever born mature, and many Google betas are just successful (e.g. Android has been adopted by some major companies, this does mean something, doesn’t it?).
You can say what you want, but the facts are that Google is still largely used.
Oh, please! Apple’s making 10x more money from Google
than Google from Apple.
I’d being willing to bet Google hasn’t made a penny from Android yet and won’t for a long time to come.
Let’s see how patient investors are later this year. When all of Google’s growth paths are stymied by Apple & others.
Google doesn’t care about money as much as Apple does. They are interested in providing good simple software. Android btw, is AMAZING and can easily compete and BEAT the iphone. The nexus one beat the iPhone when tested by cnet.
Google is great company with good intentions. Apple is evil.
As long as Google keeps its head straight and not be lead off track they will do wonders.
@lrd,
Ok, Android is FREE… Google isn’t trying to make money with it. They’re just providing competition in the mobile OS market (very good competition, mind you).
And as long as you search the web, Google will be making money. They have ads on thousands of websites, and own companies that have ads on many more. They have the cash influx they need to spend all the time they want developing products for any market they set their sights on.
Google, at this point, is a technological supergiant playing the field and seeing if they strike gold.
And Google offering this amount of stress on existing competition is exciting to see happen. Especially in the case of their recent fiber-optic network announcement. Pressure on current companies drives competition, and ultimately the consumer will win.
I hope they do kill apple, it would be nice to force people to look at products again instead of just grabbing something with a lower case i infront of it.
If anyone’s going to be doing any killing it’s going to Apple.
And the first likely victims are going to be Dell, HP, Toshiba & Acer.
With Google to follow come the Q3- this fall.
How in the world do you think Apple could EVER kill Google?
Right. Apple’s overpriced, shiny-but-shallow, and increasingly poorly-conceived products (iPad, anyone?) are going to destroy the segment of the market that caters to low cost and utility.
Also, Apple CANNOT kill Google unless they get into (and dominate) the Internet search and advertisement market. And we know that, if Apple rolled out a search engine, it would only have one button — iLucky.
Really ? I guess you wish APPLE to do that.
But they cannot touch Google. If you know anything about search algorithms you will understand it.
The idea of software repositories has been around for a while, and Apple wasn’t even the frst to bring the concept to their own phone.
I like both, Google & iPad. Both vendor portfolio are the greatest
I’m with you Rizky. Both Apple and Google have made my life better. Microsoft? Not so much.
It’s all just publicity, driving the stock, hyping the gear and you are their sheep.
Nice post. Nice picture story. Lovely graphics tale.
Happy Blogging.
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The big question is who gets the full size projector screen first. Here we see shipments going out this week to Uniden/Mint – http://img70.yfrog.com/i/qsm.jpg/
Next up is Vodafone, and then Motorola? How long until Apple gets their’s?
BRING IT!!!
Haha…Nice…I hope Google really thrashes apple…..
And two days after steve jobs’s “bunch of crap” comment on google’s slogan:
Google released an OTA-Update for the nexus one to enable multitouch :)
http://blog.htcyou.com/2010/02/02/nexus-one-multi-touch-ota-update/
Google chrome was clearly not released to compete with safari, but with internet explorer. They took a year to get a mac version
I would love to see Google kill the iPhone, if only because the entirety of Apple seems to have their heads so far up their asses that it’d take one of their flagship products failing to make them stop being so self-masturbatory all the time.
Dont worry, the iPad seems like it will do just that. Just look at the Lenovo U1 Hybrid IdeaPad. This is where innovation has come gone. Apples Ipad has nothing except a better price point. All other features are sub-par.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iki2ohoVyeI&feature=related
250 million iPods sold.
And people like you are still sputtering about how Creative, Rio, Zune and the competition has been all over iPod since day way.
My question to you is, if iPad sells in the tens of millions, are you still going to call it a failure?
I can assure you, Apple’s already killed themselves. The iPad could have been glorious!
Competition and rivalry like this is great for consumers, and for technology in general. It encourages companies to sell better products, give a better service, and charge lower prices. When one company has a monopoly, consumers get screwed.
LOL at the iPad “upping the ante of mobile computing”. This is written like an advertisement, to use Wikipedia parlance.
Fall 2010: Apple whips out a patent suit against Google for copying the look and feel of the UI;
Spring 2011: a bemused Microsoft whips out a mother of all lawsuits covering the ‘click to close’ feature that M$ patented in the early 1990s….
Fall 2011: Linux kernel architect Linus Torvalds turns his back on the GNU party that he helped elevate from dust, Torvalds accepts a position in the remaining dregs of Xerox PARC; develops a touch oriented UI which never closes anything, it all runs concurrently and is merely forgrounded or backgrounded.
Oh. Wait.
Really cool, its just a shame the ipad was horribly conceived.
The ipad upping the ante? It nothing more than a shiny piece of shit.
Please google, kill the iPhone. If you have any sense, please, please, PLEASE kill the iphone google.
LOL. So you want a phone that shares all your contact information with the world?
Google = nerds without social skills
http://gigaom.com/2010/02/12/google-and-social-like-nerds-at-the-dance/
Insecure, much?
I love the graphics, very refreshing.
At the end Google will find Apple a much tougher nut to crack than any other competitors they have dealt with so far. Apple has a long history of beating the odds. Don’t mess with Steve!
“Android btw, is AMAZING and can easily compete and BEAT the iphone. The nexus one beat the iPhone when tested by cnet.”
That’s very funny! Believing anything your read on Cnet. I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you! Rule one of tech investing: only believe technically competent, reasonably unbiased sources. This pretty much eliminates CNet, Thurott, Dvorak, Gartner, Forrester, The Register. Better yet, test things out in the stores yourself! There’s lots of money in tech; lots of people who profit by spreading disinformation.
Brilliant story board – love the graphic!
Google isn’t being evil by any stretch of the imagination. They’re trying to make space in an area that’s claimed by two deeply entrenched corporations, and so they gotta swing their elbows and dig in a bit to get a place to plant their feet. It’s called competition, and it’s a good thing.
Frankly, Apple needs to be threatened with destruction. They’ve gone totally off the rails and become insufferably arrogant. The iPhone is highly mediocre (albeit shiny) and the iPad seems to be little more than the iPhone writ large. Their computers are well-built, yes, but not worth the premium you pay. But people drink this ridiculous Kool-Aid and believe that Apple is something more than a designer label slapped onto the same mass-market consumer electronics that everybody else in the developed world has in their pockets and on their desks, and the market suffers. WE suffer.
Google’s model poses a threat not only to the sales numbers and marketshare of Apple, but more importantly to the philosophy. If Google can force Apple to open up somewhat and come off their crazy little cloud, then we all benefit.
I thought Apple was in the COMPUTER business, not the PHONE business.
Odd.
Apple dropped the word “Computer” from its name years ago. It’s “Apple, Inc.” Please try to keep up.
With all that being said, i would like to add that, although not directly google, a new tablet has been anounced that is suposed to be substanciably better than ipad, notion’s ink. Guess what its running for an os. Android.
Nexus one wasnt Google’s first branded hardware product. Google appliances are:http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/gsa.html
Steve Jobs is such a prick.
nice work man….
This is going to be an interesting ride. The final quote gets me (I realize it’s not a direct quote but it conveys the sentiment that it feels like Jobs has). It seems to me that Apple just can’t handle real competition. When the Ipod hit, it was sleeker and had a better interface than anything on the market. That’s why it dominated. (Not to mention that Microsoft sent its finest retards to create the competitor). It’s been the same story with everything they’ve tried. But now, they’re going against a company with a track record of not only well designed products, but insanely popular ones as well. They’re just concerned that their “make it shiny and milk it for all it’s worth” strategy isn’t going to work when they’re directly competing with Google. And you know what? They’re right.
xx google wants to be everything…yeah they can try but except the search engine (irreplaceable ) everything else google is CRAP…lamebrains cant think something for them selves…. copied the iphone now the ipad whats next? implanting an apple sign in the “o” of the goOgle…hahahaa
What is Microsoft doing? Has it given up competing with Google and Apple?
apple sucks =P
Good! Let them compete! This gives BOTH companies more incentive to innovate and find new and better ways to serve their customers.
The buying public always benefits from more choices.
I want full information the news google vs apple
One wonders whether Google… or Apple, both of which seem to have a fairly sever case of Us vs Everybody lately, are getting close to acquiring a critical mass of enemies.
There needs to be SOME cooperation out there or things start to fall apart.
I love the graphics
I’m just glad apple is saying they won’t let google kill the iPhone. That just means that to compete, it will keep getting better and better, and I’ll Love it more and more!
wow !! surprised to know readers’ opinion. somehow was thinking that in a ‘Google vs Apple’ war everyone will side with Apple.
Glad to note folks like Google as much.
Apple has disappointed me in recent days with their completely closed systems, everything aimed as squeezing-money-out-of-consumer model & innovating on nothing more than just flashiness and sleekness.
Google won’t have to kill the iPhone…AT&T is doing a wonderful job. Love my iPhone; hate dropping calls.
Some news missing on the graphic: Chrome already passed Safari in market share and Apple is flirting with making Bing the default search engine on the iPhone.
Someone must kill Apple and it’s will to control the world, control you cable, your files, your devices and everything.
The best company is GOogle… and yes, if you thing forward, Google is not being evil at all. People must figure this out…
Great timeline, it’s fun to watch the two battle it out.
The picture is great! Apple and Google will long live together. And end-users would get much benefit too.
It’s so very, very nice to see healthy competition in the tech arena that DOESN’T include Microsoft. It’s exciting times we live in!
great!!!!!!!
Google is awesome
well i love apple too. so wouldn’t it be great if google and apple joined forces to fight microsoft.
“well i love apple too. so wouldn’t it be great if google and apple joined forces to fight microsoft.”
I thought that was supposed to be the plan! I think Eric Schmidt had a few too many joints at Burning Man when he was diddling his mistress. He can’t tell Steve Jobs from Steve Ballmer anymore. Hint: one has more hair and sells products that actually WORK.
Now Google is getting really nasty.
http://www.google.co.in/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=safari+5.0.3&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Fingers with the Search Results to push Chrome against Safari.
I really like this “fight”. I honestly do not know which I prefer, both have very interesting things