Europe is blind
Europe says Google is wrong placing its own preferred results at the top of the results page. Guys, are you stupid?! Google is building all the results! placing a result anyware in their own structure is a fucking decoy!
Google has done this move to protect itself from fragmentation, says Bloomberg / Google. Well, that’s a bit exaggerated: 1. Fragmentation means letting everybody hack and mod the Android OS until it looks and behaves cool enough to be sold (read “until it resambles iOS”). 2. Being able to hack
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30%. Compared to Apple’s outrageous 30% from the same service, Google approaches the issue in a much more humane and thoughtful way. You should also remember it’s only around 50k of the total apps in Market that are paid apps (compared to AppStore’s 200k!), therefore Google puts
I may not be the only one to notice it; Scott Cleland says it from a different perspective: “Let me be clear, as I have long said, my problem with Google is not that it discriminates against content in its ranking process, my problem is that it has consistently and
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Horace Dediu on Nokia / Microsoft stopping Google’s Android from gaining more market share: Quite the contrary, the removal of Symbian from the marketplace will accelerate the penetration of Android in emerging markets. (…) Android will gain the largest share of Symbian loss due to overlap. What if Microsoft paralyzing Nokia
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If you put a sheep to lead the herd, instead of a ram, there are several consequences you’ll notice: – the herd will eventually move in circle: the leading sheep will try to follow, and the tail of the herd is the perfect thing to be followed; – there is no
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“Google was designed to play the role of a passive observer of the internet: web content was created for people, not specific Google queries, and Google would look around, take inventory of what was available, and give it to people who asked.” –Marco.org I think we need a bit
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One is trying to make you believe what you see, the other one is making you see what you believe. We’ve seen the latter before and it didn’t turn out well.
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“Google was designed to play the role of a passive observer of the internet: web content was created for people, not specific Google queries, and Google would look around, take inventory of what was available, and give it to people who asked.” – Marco.org I think we need a bit
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Peter Vesterbacka (“Angry Birds” developer) Paid content just doesn’t work on Android. This is no news for most of us, of course. But just add Kontra’s insight about 2011 cheap Android’s expansion: So the Android crusaders will be circling us in 2011, swinging their $85 smartswords to
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TIPb on iPhone usability “My 2 year old godson can use iPhone well. He can turn it on. He can find and launch his apps. He can play his games and read along with Dr. Seuss and Disney. About all my 2 year old can do with my Android 2.
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I can feel the Force; but not in Google’s ebook store. They somehow managed to loose their mojo, i.e. “search engine functionality”. In first picture there is a result to “Eugene Ionescu” query (not “Ionesco”). You can see on the second position “The Paltinis Diary” by Gabriel Liiceanu.