Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple
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Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple
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Re: Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple
#2The original was "Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple is getting better at what Google does best."
Truncating the sentence for the title changed the meaning to something much bolder.
Re: Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple
#3Playing up Google? Now Gruber is just screwing with us.
Re: Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple
#4the big question is though, can Google also be awesome in Services going forward?
i am loyal user of chrome, gmail, search, youtube, maps, picasa - in this order. none of which is younger than what, 5 years?
innovation in those items? gmail got a new UI, but else?
where are the BETA products? used to be the awesomeness of Google. ever since Page took over, they've been killing the small, useful things. ok, they want to be apple. google glass, cars, chromebooks - big ambitious things, big bang approach. nothing below 1500 usd.
of course there is android, but that one is slipping away - samsung, amazon, chinese manufacturers - all are eating it up and taking ownership.
how come amazon is the premier cloud provider, not google? how come dropbox is the premier storage provider, not google? they are moving from a (ad-supported) knowledge company to a product company. more money there i guess. still makes me sad.
Re: Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple
#5From the original quote [1], what Apple does is "design" while what Google does is "web services". Design is more fragmented than web services and thus easier to break into. If Google + design -> Cupertino while Apple has only to master "web services" the war has already been won. Given how premature that seems, I'd say the core competences identified and thus the analogy as a whole appear to be stacked.
[1] http://patrickbgibson.com/post/36041799210/apple-and-twitter
Re: Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple
#6The premise is pretty stupid.
Firstly Apple does do services. They run the world's biggest media store, the world's biggest syncing platform and a semi popular email service. Sure they aren't perfect but they can be considered successes for the most part.
And the point about hardware is completely misguided. Apple's true strength has never been their ability to build a well designed machine. It is the fact that they can do it consistently and ship it on a scale unmatched in the industry. All whilst maintaining a huge profit margin.
Until Google can demonstrate that they can actually ship a product and do so profitably then nobody will or should take them seriously.
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#7I still don't think Google has the culture to create a good consistent UI, something that has pretty much always been Apple's strongest asset - the reason I keep using Apple products. I don't think this will change, at least not anytime soon.
Recently I developed an app for Android, but when using the toolkit and testing on a real device I realised how much stronger Apple is in the department of software design.
That's not to say I don't like certain products of Google. I appreciate Gmail very much and I'm very likely to use AppEngine in the near future for a mobile game I plan to develop. I just think Apple is much better when it comes to UI design.
Re: Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple
#8the big question is though, can Google also be awesome in Services going forward? i am loyal user of chrome, gmail, search, youtube, maps, picasa - in this order. none of which is younger than what, 5 years? innovation in those items? gmail got a new UI, but else? where are the BETA products? used to be the awesomeness of Google. ever since Page took over, they've been killing the small, useful things. ok, they want…
>gmail got a new UI, but else?
Priority inbox? It's pretty useful.
Re: Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple
#9the big question is though, can Google also be awesome in Services going forward? i am loyal user of chrome, gmail, search, youtube, maps, picasa - in this order. none of which is younger than what, 5 years? innovation in those items? gmail got a new UI, but else? where are the BETA products? used to be the awesomeness of Google. ever since Page took over, they've been killing the small, useful things. ok, they want…
>gmail got a new UI, but else? Priority inbox? It's pretty useful.
true, don't use it for priority myself though, only to group unread items out of the rest of the inbox. which is indeed awesome.
Re: Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple
#10The premise is pretty stupid. Firstly Apple does do services. They run the world's biggest media store, the world's biggest syncing platform and a semi popular email service. Sure they aren't perfect but they can be considered successes for the most part. And the point about hardware is completely misguided. Apple's true strength has never been their ability to build a well designed machine. It is the fact that they…
So Google just released a laptop that is actually better than an MBA and you think Apple shouldn't take Google seriously? Good thing you're not running Apple.