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Care to list some examples? (Not that I disagree)
1. Project Natal/Kinect 2. Surface Table Both are good innovations, on which media would go over gaga, had they come from Apple/Google.
I think equating Wave to a 'big' risk is a bit much, financially there was no risk. All they lost was face. Also Chrome and Android are not successes, Google Adwords is a success, MS Office is a success, MS Windows is a success. The key ingredient to a success for a company is some MONEY. Anything else is just showing off. I'm still very disappointed with the follow through on Wave and Buzz, a bit of PR and a few man…
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ycombinator?
Y Combinator and FriendFeed don't count, naturally. Somehow, they don't go in the "job" category the same way other jobs do.
In light of YC's recent tie-up with Facebook, it's good to see that there might very well be a voice of caution within the organization.
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Care to list some examples? (Not that I disagree)
1. Project Natal/Kinect 2. Surface Table Both are good innovations, on which media would go over gaga, had they come from Apple/Google.
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1. Project Natal/Kinect 2. Surface Table Both are good innovations, on which media would go over gaga, had they come from Apple/Google.
Kinect was on the top of my list. When I used Kinect, it seemed quite magical (and I'm jaded enough that few pieces of tech makes me go that way). I really suspect a Kinect from Apple would have been handled differently.
Nearly all of Microsoft's own promotional stuff is extraordinarily bad, especially in comparison to Apple.
BTW, when is Google going to allow third party developers to enhance its core search results via a search API? Such an API would allow third party developers to add Wolfram Alpha like features among other things right into the core Google search.
I think they used to do this - I could swear that I used to have a third-party plugin that I "installed" on my Google account that would show me JavaDocs whenever I Googled a Java class name. It hasn't shown up in about 3 years, though, and I haven't found any trace of it in the code I work with (which should be right around that area of the page...), so maybe it was discontinued.
http://code.google.com/apis/websearch/
(In favor of "custom search" - but that only works for your own website)
I think equating Wave to a 'big' risk is a bit much, financially there was no risk. All they lost was face. Also Chrome and Android are not successes, Google Adwords is a success, MS Office is a success, MS Windows is a success. The key ingredient to a success for a company is some MONEY. Anything else is just showing off. I'm still very disappointed with the follow through on Wave and Buzz, a bit of PR and a few man…
I was under the impression that Android was profitable by itself- though I'm not sure where the money is coming from. Certification/contract work with manufacturers?