G+_Alfredo Suarez Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Apple is hilarious, a music competitor 4 years late and maps 10 years late. Their proprietary language was so bad they needed to overhaul it in less than 12 months and realise they need to make it open source for people to use - half hearted and deeply out of their depth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_L I Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Yet we'll be hearing about Apple for the rest of the week on almost every tech show/podcast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Lionel D the same way we heard about Google and Google photos on every podcast 2 weeks ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ste Syp Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Lionel D I truly wish that your timeline was right. This unapealing Appleonious elcrapo is so persistent that it is almost as if their sleeping minions are ruled by a greedy dictator. Hmmm... a whole lot of humans took the wrong pill... Here's a thought - Maybe we can mentally link the fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica to our blind spot?... hmm, that tree's name, Malus domestica, certainly does kind of sound evil.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ste Syp Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Marlon Thompson not quite... at the very least Google's announcements were interesting & innovative, not catch-ups masked as "the great next steps in tech." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Ste Syp its the nature of technology, Android pay getting some of the Apple pay features was catch up, Android wear getting some of the watch os features were catch up as well. Snarking on catch up is the wrong conversation. I prefer to look at the announcements and judge them on their merits. Google i/Os Keynote was boring and uninspired for the first hour and finished strong, Apple was the reverse. I also think that the proactive stuff they talked about with Siri I think still will be woefully uninspiring compared to Google Now because of Google's backbone powering it where as Siri seems to be working mostly only on the phone. I still think watch OS is a scattered approach compared to Android wear. And I applaud Apple making a developer tool open source, I can't be a supporter of Google and share their values and not support open source software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Pradyumn Vij Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Marlon Thompson if you ask any developer, hell, anyone who's tried programming, expecting a language to be non-proprietary is usually a given, Oracle jumped everyone with their "ownership" of Java, you shouldn't need to pay to use a language. The tech media are made up of people who don't fully understand technology yet report on it. Apple can sell to them that their language will be used in the same way as C++ but every developer worth half their salt recognises this as a bald faced lie. Like almost everything Apple covers. The companies have two different approaches. One is committed to research and development, forwarding technology. The other is a brand name pretending to be a tech company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Pradyumn Vij Yes the two companies have different approaches and that what confuses me when people get all upset when they follow their mission and vision. Apple is a hardware company, their mission is to make beautiful hardware and charge a premium for it and they have and they are successful at it. Google's mission is to organize the worlds information and they need the internet, services and your data to do that, and to support that they use ads and they are successful at that. I disagree with you that apple is just a brand name, they have pushed technology forward and continue to do so as has Google They iterate slowly because they focus on hardware and with hardware you usually only get one shot. Google iterates rapidly and in public because they focus on software and services and its easy to do that and expected. I remember Gina once explaining why she likes Google a bit more than Apple, and she said it was because Google's values seem to align more with hers than Apple does, as it does with me. But I am not going to demonise people who's values align with Apple, then I would be acting like Tim Cook and his privacy rants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_L I Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Marlon Thompson maybe I'm listening to the wrong pods, for me Google Photos was a one day story, two at the most. The only place it wasn't was the Android focused outlets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Lionel D I was listening to a podcast this weekend with two hosts are very apple centric and Google photos and the Keynote came up again and in a very positive light. Yesterday I saw a tech article comparing photos with flickr. Even Wired published this article yesterday on the day of apple's keynote http://www.wired.com/2015/06/coolest-stuff-didnt-know-google-photos/ I am not saying that Apple won't get buzz but its tech news, and the discussions I have been hearing on podcast this week so far is how Apple finished poorly in the Keynote while Google finished strong, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_L I Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Marlon Thompson Currently listening to Tech News 2Night doing their second straight day on features from day 2 of WWDC. CNET Update the same. And I expect this to not be the last day this week. Like there's some kind of quota. I understand why they do it, I just get tired of it and have to vent every now and again. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I understand dude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts