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

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Post by 51Cards » Sun, Mar 03, 2013, 6:41 AM UTC

nirvana wrote: post #68

patrickaljord wrote: post #38

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I'm the happy owner of a galaxy nexus and nexus 4. Pretty awesome shipped hardware.

I'm sure there's a couple hundred thousand other people like you. That's not what taligent is talking about. Apple ships tens of millions of devices in a quarter. Google's never had a hardware hit, not even close.

Let's be clear about this, Google's really been in the hardware business for about what.. a year, maybe 1.5? Any product pre that was developer oriented. I don't think you can expect a company to be shipping 10 million units when it has really only started to tackle general market hardware, let alone compare them to a 30+ year old manufacturer. For starters the market adoption has barely begun in the public eye.

That said though, they are starting to do what matters most, build great products... and that is what is the start to market acceptance. Guaranteed success? No... but certainly looking like they are figuring it out.

Re: Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple

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Post by ChuckMcM » Mon, Mar 04, 2013, 3:11 AM UTC

nirvana wrote: post #55

jmduke wrote: post #50

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I agree with the vast majority of what you said, but Siri upending search seems incredibly pre-emptive. I think Siri opens a lot of doors, but 90% of the Siri use I've seen (which I admit is somewhat anecdotal, but still) is hands-free texting & easter eggs ("Siri, where can I hide a body?") Once Apple opens up Siri's functionality a bit more and makes it actually actionable ("Siri, pre-order my usual Chipotle burrit…

What you say is correct, but what I was trying to say (you may disagree) is that SIRI was a big jump into mobile search, and that it is a bigger move into mobile search than google's hardware projects have been in competing with Apple. SIRI is still in the early stages and would benefit a great deal from becoming more of an App platform, but I think that is going to take some time due to the nature of how SIRI works.

As a 'UI', SIRI was pretty cool, but if you compare SIRI on an Apple device with Google Now on an Apple device, both of them use Google to do the 'search' part except that Google Now's integration with the search backend gives it more visibility in what you are trying to find.

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