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Google – The New Microsoft.

about 16 hours ago on Google reportedly faces US antritust investigation over ads 1 reply 4 recommends

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Actually he was asked to leave Android – he lost a political internal battle between him, Sundar Pichai and Vic Gundotra. [x] might be a nerd heaven but Andy didn’t go there on his own accord and probably will leave once he vests the majority of his current shares. Don’t let Google’s typical positive PR spin distract you from the facts of what really happened – it wasn’t pretty.

1 day ago on Google X 'moonshots lab' buys flying wind turbine company Makani Power 2 replies

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Its good PR for Google – why not? Google is great at PR though not as slick as Apple but definitely not as flatfooted at Microsoft.

1 day ago on Google X 'moonshots lab' buys flying wind turbine company Makani Power 2 recommends

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“Wrong. Google’s claim is that Microsoft’s app for Windows Phone “deprives advertisers of ad revenue.” However, Google’s only “official solution,” their mobile site, deprives advertisers of revenue — while Microsoft has offered to integrate the ad API and allow monetization for the first time.”

That’s exactly why Microsoft chose to do this but unveiling it right after Larry Page’s speech during Google I/O was epic timing! I wonder if Microsoft had a copy of his speech beforehand :-P

1 day ago on Microsoft updates YouTube Windows Phone app on the day Google demanded it be removed 1 reply 1 recommend

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If this goes to court the point Microsoft will make is simple:

“Google is deliberately crippling the YouTube user experience for WP users by preventing native app access to it and only allowing access thru m.youtube.com”

This will stand up in court becoz it had precedence in cases where Microsoft was the defendant and Google was the plaintiff. Now the situation has been flipped.

1 day ago on Microsoft updates YouTube Windows Phone app on the day Google demanded it be removed 1 reply

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If this goes to court the point Microsoft will make is simple:

“Google is deliberately crippling the YouTube user experience for WP users by preventing native app access to it and only allowing access thru m.youtube.com”

Microsoft has treaded these waters before when they got accused of not giving out crucial system level APIs to other browser developers (Google, Mozilla, Opera) which would have ensured better performance and user experience for their respective browsers.

These are anti-competitive practices which do stand up in court. So you bet Google has something to be nervous about here becoz now they are on the defendant side and Microsoft is the plaintiff.

1 day ago on Microsoft updates YouTube Windows Phone app on the day Google demanded it be removed 2 replies 3 recommends

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Then they should block m.youtube.com coz it doesn’t show ads either in the videos :-)

Microsoft did this deliberately to entrap Google.

Re. whether this will hold up in court – I think it will (against Google). Success is a double-edged sword….you get sued for monopoly.

1 day ago on Microsoft updates YouTube Windows Phone app on the day Google demanded it be removed 1 reply

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Samsung dominates Android so much that even Andy Rubin had to come out and call their own partner as a future threat. I didn’t know Rubin works for Microsoft.

If people do not want WindowsPhone how come they have triple digit growth (just like early days of Android). Every think about that?

2 days ago on HTC in disarray: staff departures, 'disastrous' First, and production problems cloud company's future 1 reply

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“Now you know why I didn’t go with Android”
regards,
- Nokia.

2 days ago on HTC in disarray: staff departures, 'disastrous' First, and production problems cloud company's future 1 reply 2 recommends

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Keep your Google Glass on.

3 days ago on Every Xbox One comes with a next-generation Kinect

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Go say that to Google.

3 days ago on Every Xbox One comes with a next-generation Kinect

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Tech Blog commentators: “OH MY GOD!!! THEY WON’T SUPPORT OLD GAMES!!!! OMIGOSH!!! THEY REQUIRE ALWAYS ON CONNECTION!!! I AM SWITCHING TO PS4/OUYA/GoogleTV!!!! YAAAAHHH!!!”

Microsoft: “Xbox One doesn’t need always-on internet connection, supports used games”

Tech Blog commentators: “oh…..”

3 days ago on Xbox One doesn't need always-on internet connection, supports used games (update) 2 replies 1 recommend

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I would combine this Leap Motion unit with the 3D pen being sold in Kickstarter which can create 3D objects physically.

4 days ago on Leap Motion reveals first footage of Windows 8 gesture control

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Doesn’t it get tiring to keep holding your hand up in the air. I see this more useful for XBox – please integrate this into the XBox – something I can just place on my center table to control the TV/games.

4 days ago on Leap Motion reveals first footage of Windows 8 gesture control 1 reply 2 recommends

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" we only barely dodged a “horse diarrhea” query at the office the other day."

ROFLMAO – the wonders of speech recognition technology!

4 days ago on Google Glass apps: everything you can do right now

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This is the approach Google needs to take if it wants GoogleTV to stay relevant.

4 days ago on The new Xbox: what do we know about Microsoft's next console?

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So will it be cheaper than the ChromeBook Pixel?

4 days ago on Samsung beats Chromebook Pixel and Retina MacBook with new high-res laptop display 1 reply

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Buy the XBox – that is the dominant gaming/TV platform. Neither GoogleTV nor AppleTV come even close.

6 days ago on Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013 2 replies

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Except Ballmer ensures Microsoft makes money. Schmidt just ensures Google has egg on its face.

6 days ago on Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013 8 recommends

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“‘If I’m recording you, I have to stare at you’”

Sorry but that is a lame answer to what might be the biggest barrier to mainstream adoption of Glass. And the argument that you can do the same with button cameras/go-pro cameras etc. doesn’t really fly becoz most consumers are neither aware of them nor will buy them unlike Glass which is heavily marketed by Google. When it comes to consumer reach, marketing and positioning plays a big role. Unlike those other spy devices which just spy on people, Glass is marketed as having totally benign applications which is great. But that also means any creep has plausible deniability when it comes to misusing glass. Some of those parodies on Glass on YouTube are actually more alarming than hilarious becoz they actually show real issues one can have with Glass.

And how would the Google guy who made the above quote answer this?: Sure I am talking to my friend and he is wearing Glass. I am OK with him looking at me but that doesn’t mean I want him recording me and the conversation. His answer only applies to strangers but the privacy issue is not limited to abject strangers. Google hasn’t really thought thru the privacy issues with Glass despite what they claim. All their answers are geeky and best reserved for a research lab environment, not the consumer market.

7 days ago on Google on Glass privacy: 'If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you' 2 replies 7 recommends

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More useful but not more useable….yet. Waiting for Glass consumer version before making any judgment.

8 days ago on Google Glass becomes more useful with new Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr apps 1 reply

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I guess then you can’t see. Becoz they are not failures :-)

8 days ago on Leaked Scroogled video sees Microsoft parody Google's Chrome ad 2 recommends

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I agree. Rather I found Microsoft’s YouTube app maneuver against Google way more clever and effective.

8 days ago on Leaked Scroogled video sees Microsoft parody Google's Chrome ad 2 recommends

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I guess the difference is Microsoft’s revenues don’t depend on monetizing that information whereas Google’s main revenue source is based off that. I am sure both Google and Microsoft (and Amazon/FB/etc.) track your behavior.

8 days ago on Leaked Scroogled video sees Microsoft parody Google's Chrome ad 2 replies 4 recommends

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So how come iOS and Android have apps – why not ask them to go to m.youtube.com? Discrimination much? Google effed up this one royally and Microsoft just used it against them to publicly hurl egg at their face.

8 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 reply 3 recommends

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Which Google services exactly will they block? Mail? Maps? Docs? You do realize that Microsoft actually has competitive solutions for each of them native to WP so Google will just end up hurting itself.

8 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 recommend

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Well whats stopping Google from providing APIs to Microsoft so that they can allow ads to be displayed in their WP8 YouTube app. Seems like Google just wants to play idiotic ecosystem war games with Microsoft while the content providers on YouTube it pretends to care so much about, suffer from lack of access to extra revenue.

Yesterday, WP8 had too small a userbase for Google to bother developing a YouTube app and now today suddenly, Google is crying about loss of revenue if WP8’s YouTube app doesn’t allow Google ads to be shown? That’s just freakin’ hilarious how Microsoft out-witted Google and called out their hypocrisy in public. This is way better than their stupid Scroogled ads which I frankly think were in bad taste.

8 days ago on Larry Page to tech world: 'Being negative is not how we make progress' 3 recommends

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For PC and Home (XBOX) it is a leading consumer company. Microsoft has its fingers in way more pies than Google when it comes to revenue – that inevitably leads it to fight in multiple domains.

8 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 reply 10 recommends