This makes much more sense than just shutting down. Congrats to the Cue guys (if this rumor is correct).
Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete With Google Now
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Re: Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete With Google Now
#22Great tech that had yet to find a market. Now they have access to one of the biggest markets around.
Re: Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete With Google Now
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interestingly, Google usually shuts down the acquired companies anyway...
There are plenty of counter examples to your claim: YouTube, Google Maps, Picasa, various companies focused on voice recognition and Google Glass, etc...
Google Glass? As far as I know, Google Glass is originally a Google X project ... they did not acquire a company if I know correctly. They hired some people from the wearable computing field.
Re: Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete With Google Now
#24When Google acquires a company, the company usually is open about it "Yay we were acquired by Google". When Apple acquires they announce they are shutting down. Interesting difference.
Apple is a better run and more profitable company than Google. Even though the optics may not look great to some Open Source nutjobs all in all Apple seem to absorb their acquisitions effectively.
Re: Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete With Google Now
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m not sure whether those are good examples. Android Inc wasn’t much of a company when they were bought by Google and the initial Google Analytics offering was very different from the service they bought (Urchin). Meanwhile, Google has killed over a hundred services in the last couple of years. Apple has bought several companies that had shipping products and just like Google, Apple didn’t cancel those. Examples are…
I can assure you any company anyone acquires will look very different 5 years from acquisition if its still alive.
Also, any startup not acquired should look very different 5 years from conception.
Re: Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete With Google Now
#26Clearly naming your startup after an Apple SVP is a good idea. I'd like to introduce my next startup - Schiller I kid - congrats to the Cue folks
Damn, I'm actually working on a side-project named Ive.
Re: Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete With Google Now
#27It's interesting that most of the comments in response to this are about how great Greplin was. What was it about Greplin search that appealed to people so much? If it was so popular, why did the company pivot away from it? I have my own theories, but would be great to hear from folks directly.
Re: Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete With Google Now
#28It's interesting that most of the comments in response to this are about how great Greplin was. What was it about Greplin search that appealed to people so much? If it was so popular, why did the company pivot away from it? I have my own theories, but would be great to hear from folks directly.
Greplin was useful, worked and helped several times.
Re: Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete With Google Now
#29It's interesting that most of the comments in response to this are about how great Greplin was. What was it about Greplin search that appealed to people so much? If it was so popular, why did the company pivot away from it? I have my own theories, but would be great to hear from folks directly.
Greplin was useful, worked and helped several times.
Did you use it on a regular basis and had it set as your home page or was it useful only when you couldn't find something any other way?
Re: Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete With Google Now
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Greplin was useful, worked and helped several times.
Did you use it on a regular basis and had it set as your home page or was it useful only when you couldn't find something any other way?
Not the parent, but I found it incredibly useful as well. The thing is, I would always forget it existed, and so its utility was kind of low for me. I was blown away when I first hooked everything up to it, then barely touched it until they pivoted, at which point I lost interest and disconnected all my accounts from them.
A shame, but not sure how to solve that problem.