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Re: Face opera

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Post by udp »

tjoff wrote: post #69
cateye wrote: post #30

The battle of the giants is really beginning: Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Amazon will be trying to define the future of the internet and they will have to attack each others core businesses to grow further. On several levels of the internet they all try to get a foot in: 1. Cloud: AWS, iCloud, Azure, Gdrive & App engine - Facebook hasn't got a storage or computation sollution 2. Social: Google+, Windows Li…

Amazon? You guys need to realize that practically noone outside of the US has any idea of what Amazon is.

I think I'd be hard pressed to find anyone here in the UK that doesn't know what Amazon is.

Re: Face opera

#72

Post by tjoff »

udp wrote: post #71
tjoff wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon? You guys need to realize that practically noone outside of the US has any idea of what Amazon is.

I think I'd be hard pressed to find anyone here in the UK that doesn't know what Amazon is.

Still, to compare amazon with apple, facebook, microsoft or google is ludicrous.

Re: Face opera

#73

Post by khuey »

thatjoshguy wrote: post #54
ttt_ wrote: post #24

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I don't know. I'm quite worried that the whole technology space is turning into a big brand feud war arena. We are begining to see the subverting of unrelated products into business strategies. No, I don't want my browser/car/glasses/phone with any strings attached. What are we looking forward to a decade from now? iBank? FB insurence? G+ real state? I for one will make efforts to avoid those products like the plague…

> What are we looking forward to a decade from now? iBank? FB insurence? G+ real state? GE sells refrigerators, MRI machines, insurance & financing and owns a television network. We've actually already been there.

The difference here is that GE's business model doesn't involve keeping tabs on what you have in your refrigerator and your MRI scan results.

Re: Face opera

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Post by cheald »

mseebach wrote: post #43
Tomis02 wrote: post #34

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> introducing features no existing browsers had Please, elaborate. The only feature I know is exclusive to Chrome is full page translation (since they own Google Translate it makes sense). What else?

Fast JS (it took Firefox forever to catch up) and SPDY.

Making Javascript a first-class citizen can't be understated. Before V8 came along, Javascript was good for doing form validations and not a lot more. Chrome sparked a Javascript engine arms race that has tremendously benefited web developers and users.

Re: Face opera

#75

Post by apawloski »

tjoff wrote: post #69
cateye wrote: post #30

The battle of the giants is really beginning: Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Amazon will be trying to define the future of the internet and they will have to attack each others core businesses to grow further. On several levels of the internet they all try to get a foot in: 1. Cloud: AWS, iCloud, Azure, Gdrive & App engine - Facebook hasn't got a storage or computation sollution 2. Social: Google+, Windows Li…

Amazon? You guys need to realize that practically noone outside of the US has any idea of what Amazon is.

Even if that were true, it's not especially important for the end user to be familiar with the brand name "Amazon." They use its services constantly. Are they familiar with Netflix? Do they read the Guardian or the Washington Post? Maybe they use apps like Yelp or Foursquare or visit websites like Reddit or IMDb.

Amazon's web services are everywhere. If you're dismissing them because you don't recognize their name, I'd seriously question your familiarity with the current web landscape.

Re: Face opera

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

rplnt wrote: post #15
chewxy wrote: post #2

I'll stop using Opera (currently my default browser) if facebook acquires it. Such is the level of trust I have over facebook.

Sadly, there is no viable alternative. I use Chrome as my second browser, I occasionally use Firefox and although they are both great browsers, they offer nothing close to Opera. No configurability whatsoever and no extra features you are accustomed to.

Not really. Firefox has a minimal featureset out of the box, but extensions are allowed to do a lot more. With a few extensions you can get nifty new features and UI customizations that Opera just doesn't support.

Re: Face opera

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Post by apawloski »

rplnt wrote: post #15
chewxy wrote: post #2

I'll stop using Opera (currently my default browser) if facebook acquires it. Such is the level of trust I have over facebook.

Sadly, there is no viable alternative. I use Chrome as my second browser, I occasionally use Firefox and although they are both great browsers, they offer nothing close to Opera. No configurability whatsoever and no extra features you are accustomed to.

Why would you use Chrome, but not the potential FB Opera? Google has just as much of a stake in your information as Facebook, but that hasn't led to their browser being a privacy vulnerability.

Re: Face opera

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Post by tjoff »

apawloski wrote: post #75
tjoff wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon? You guys need to realize that practically noone outside of the US has any idea of what Amazon is.

Even if that were true, it's not especially important for the end user to be familiar with the brand name "Amazon." They use its services constantly. Are they familiar with Netflix? Do they read the Guardian or the Washington Post? Maybe they use apps like Yelp or Foursquare or visit websites like Reddit or IMDb. Amazon's web services are everywhere. If you're dismissing them because you don't recognize their name, I…

Are you seriously trying to convince a non-US citizen with those services?

And I fail to see how amazon hosting a few sites makes it important enough in the current web landscape to be able to be compared to microsoft/google/apple/facebook. (I bet that reddit would exist without amazon)

Re: Face opera

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Post by apawloski »

tjoff wrote: post #72
udp wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think I'd be hard pressed to find anyone here in the UK that doesn't know what Amazon is.

Still, to compare amazon with apple, facebook, microsoft or google is ludicrous.

I don't mean to keep picking on you, but this might be more persuasive to you: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=book+value+amazon+faceb...

Re: Face opera

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Post by repoman »

1. Opera is really not useful. On mobile phone it uses more memory does my built-in android browser, and it doesn't even run many of the websites smoothly... damn 2. Acquiring Opera doesn't really help Facebook. It generates some revenues, but doesn't help FB to maintain its large operation cost, and doesn't help its ads moving either.
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