OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/22582/Google_Announces_New_Location-based_Services Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 21 May 2013 23:54:28 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Android push http://www.osnews.com/thread?398266 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398266 With all the big brother added value Android is becoming a really compelling mobile OS.

I think Google is starting to prefer Android (sometimes unwillingly). Google Nav and Voice etc are best (or only available) on Android.

At some point it will be hard to compete with small mobile devices that have the power of millions of Google servers at their disposal.

Brave new world indeed. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kragil) Comments RE: Android push http://www.osnews.com/thread?398273 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398273 That doesn't raise a red alarm bell in your mind that Google will essentially dominate every mobile computing task in your life? We saw what happened with Microsoft, and everyone loved them at first too. If something similar happens with Google, it will be worse than anything Microsoft has ever managed or even dreamed. It's not only scary what Google are essentially trying to do, but how willingly most people just accept it and don't really think about the implications. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (darknexus) Comments Goggles http://www.osnews.com/thread?398277 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398277 'Goggles' sounds rather useful, albeit not as a mobile app, but as one I'd use while looking through holiday photos, and trying to remember what it depicted. I came away from a recent South American holiday with dozens of pictures of old churches and colonial buildings, and very little idea which of these buildings is which... Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Delgarde) Comments RE[2]: Android push http://www.osnews.com/thread?398280 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398280 Again, who loved microsoft at first? Their first big accomplishment was plain stolen from Apple! I did not saw Google doing things like that yet.

But I agree we should fear Google, how long they will maintain the "don't be evil" thing? I would hate to see that kind of power on the hands of companies like Apple who think they can decide things for us and to the hell people that doesn't agree with them. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (puelocesar) Comments RE[2]: Android push http://www.osnews.com/thread?398287 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398287 Nobody loved MS. MS stole IP, bought out real innovation, abused monopolistic practices for economic gain, destroyed standards wherever possible, and barely made a decent software product.

Out of all of MS's software, only Word 2.0, .net IDE/Dev tools, NT 4, Win2k, Windows 7, and ie 5 were any good.

Pretty much every 3 years MS would come out with a decent product, and then foul it up and ruin it soon after.

Word 6 copied Word 2, because all other versions were horrid. Windows XP ruined win2k, IE 7/8, etc.

Microsoft has consistently made buggy, crash-prone, bloatware and used their clout as a monopoly to destroy good products in their infancy.

The only real counter to MS was Opensource since it changed the rules of financial gain in the software industry.

And sadly, as a young man in my 20s, I still remember all of this, and even tried to get away from the wintel duopoly by switching to a PPC iBook years ago. As I write this running windows 7 on my Macbook Pro. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Evan) Comments RE[3]: Android push http://www.osnews.com/thread?398296 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398296 Wow, how old were you at that time? 12?. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hiev) Comments RE[2]: Android push http://www.osnews.com/thread?398322 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398322 The big difference between google and microsoft is open standards. I can export pretty much anything from their services into open formats and reuse that anywhere else. Where microsoft thrived on lockin. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (emerson999) Comments RE[3]: Android push http://www.osnews.com/thread?398323 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398323
I can export pretty much anything from their services

But can you expunge it from their "services"? Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbergman27) Comments Interesting Goggles http://www.osnews.com/thread?398372 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398372 I wonder how would the "Did you mean...?" feature of the current Google search would like with Goggles. For example, you upload a picture of some famous politician (to use it as a search "string") and then you get "Did you mean" with the picture of some equally famous pornographic star... I'm just noticing how delicate that feature might turn out, as is the case with the current text search on http://images.google.com occasionally.Edited 2009-12-08 09:49 UTC Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (arsa) Comments Google Goggles http://www.osnews.com/thread?398577 http://www.osnews.com/thread?398577 thank youEdited 2009-12-09 07:35 UTC Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gordon W) Comments