#BoycottApple trending on Google plus due to Galaxy Nexus ban

Post by taligent » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 7:34 AM UTC

technoslut wrote: post #16

saket123 wrote: post #4

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Why should a product judge whether its successful or not based on other product. Google plus has some of the most tech savvy users and level of conversation is usually very high. I will say that most early adaptors of G+ are pretty influential in their domains.

>Why should a product judge whether its successful or not based on other product. I think it's his intent to show that nobody outside of tech really cares about this. >Google plus has some of the most tech savvy users and level of conversation is usually very high. The 'tech savvy' users are everywhere. What it shows here is what everyone already knew: that much of Google+ consists of Google fans. I'm eager to see wh…

Post by taligent » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 7:39 AM UTC

quink wrote: post #36

taligent wrote: post #31

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I am assuming you are going to setup /r/boycottsamsung, /r/boycottgoogle, /r/boycotthtc as well ? Because their FRAND abuses are 1000x worse than what Apple and Microsoft have been doing. When you have governments (FTC, EU) and non-mobile companies (Intel, HP, Cisco etc) complaining you know it's something serious.

> I am assuming you are going to setup /r/boycottsamsung, /r/boycottgoogle, /r/boycotthtc as well ? Samsung have given me a replacement for two monitors that were just out of warranty. They came over and replaced them right then and there. For free. They were just normal 17 inch LCDs. No extra warranty. Google has given me untold GB of emails and made it work just everywhere, even in every text browser. I love Google…

Post by iamdave » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 7:40 AM UTC

quink wrote: post #5

Just started http://www.reddit.com/r/boycottapple/ It's about time.

Post by pkulak » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 7:43 AM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #29

mryall wrote: post #19

More interesting than a bunch of chatter on Google Plus is this article on Forbes, "Could Steve Jobs actually win his thermonuclear war?": http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/30/could-steve-jobs-actu... I don't think this will be the last of Apple's actions against Android. When Steve said they'd "patented the hell out of" the iPhone, I got the sense he really wasn't joking.

They've patented the hell out of everything that they've done in the last decade with the iPhone, but the very foundations that they stand on have been patented the hell out of by Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia, etc for the decades prior. Standing on someone else's foundations isn't the best place from which to start a thermonuclear patent war.

Post by drivebyacct2 » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 7:45 AM UTC

lunchbox wrote: post #32

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #10

This is fighting stupid with stupid. Oh I know, let's make an online petition to let Apple know how upset we are. Between that and a trending G+ topic, surely they'll change their ways. So that we're clear, since reactionary fanboy downvotes are popular here, I have no desire to part with my beloved Galaxy Nexus or new Macbook Air. I just find it completely inane that this is frontpage HN news.

So you're opposed to boycotts? Or are you criticizing this boycott because it's not (yet) big enough to influence Apple? Lots of boycotts have been successful throughout history, and most of them started small.