Comments on: Google wants to take on Apple with an open AirPlay alternative

By: Habibullah Khan

Habibullah Khan — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 09:20:43 +0000

Interesting how Apple has turned Google into a “Me Too” company. “We all become what we despise” Frank Herbert, Dune

By: tweebo colluns

tweebo colluns — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 06:49:49 +0000

Open = controlled by google instead of Apple?

By: Ghodagadi

Ghodagadi — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:52:06 +0000

Expect Google to steal once again as it does with everything else. They make money on content indexed on the web, don’t pay content owners a portion from the ads they earn. The released Android knowing it violated loads of other peoples patents and now I am sure they will do the same here. Then they say “do no evil”, clearly they don’t practice it and clearly the press like the WSJ in the interest of getting continued access to Google people, don’t challenge them on the topic. The press in the US is the most self censored press there is.

By: Slag Dar

Slag Dar — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:44:23 +0000

Open open open herp derp derp herp

Can’t wait to see this fragment across the universe like Android OS has.

By: Open

Open — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:21:40 +0000

Better title: “Google wants to make another FUD press release with the word ‘Open’ in it”.

I love openness, but what benefit does this have to me?

I remember 4 or 5 years ago when Google Talk announced video chat. They bragged about how it used “open standards”, like H.264. (Apple’s iChat also used “open standards” like H.264.) Fast-forward to 2012, and you still cannot use any third-party IM client for video chat on Google Talk. Not a big brand name like Apple, not a little open-source project, nothing.

I have no clue how anybody would be any worse off if Google had invented their own protocol for video chat. No interoperability? We’ve got that now.

So please, Google, stop putting buzzwords (and it is sad that “open” is now a buzzword) in your publicity, and start making shit useful. If you “really want to move the whole industry forward”, you could start by figuring out how to let people talk to your “open protocols” from 5 years ago. Nobody is going to follow you in the future if they couldn’t follow you in the past.

By: hahnchen

hahnchen — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:59:49 +0000

“First they copied Siri”

You’ve gotta be shitting me. Did Gruber send you here?

By: b0bf0k

b0bf0k — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 07:59:56 +0000

Seriously? is there anybody out there still trying to say that Google isn’t just making an AirPlay rip-off? Except that they will try to push it as “open” this time.

Google really isn’t innovating anymore either. They just buy up little companies that are. They got lucky with Android mobile but they are desperately trying to squeeze into other markets (social, tv, music, etc..)

By: Dan Andersen

Dan Andersen — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 05:12:57 +0000

I don’t think so, Barry. You’re dealing with a PEBKAC situation there…

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 02:41:38 +0000

“Google TV is no better or worse than Apple TV, they both are not going very far yet.”

Are you serious? Apple pulls in more on their “beloved hobby” as Google does in their entire Android mobile effort. GoogleTV is light years behind Apple TV.

Betting against Apple is not a smart thing. I bet you were one of those that wrote them off for dead 10 years ago and now they are worth more than MS, Google, Dell and Hp combined.

By: barry

barry — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 02:24:25 +0000

Whatever they end up doing cant be worse than apple’s AirPlay streaming. I’ve been trying to get it to work for years, and it’s garbage. iPhone in the same room as the router and within a few minutes the music is skipping like it’s the nineties and I’m playing a scratched CD.