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Two simple laws to remember:
"If you’re not paying for something, you have no reason to expect it to be there tomorrow."
"If you’re not paying for something, you’re not a customer; you’re the product being sold"
And, as Apple showed with its MobileMe to iCloud transition, your data may not be safe even if you pay for the service. So, keep your expectations in check - "The “cloud” is not your friend; it’s where your data goes when it ceases to be yours."

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It's really ironic that Google opted to launch one of their mass products minus the "beta" tag when it was clearly incomplete and evolving, and draw so much of criticism.
On the other hand, Apple launched a mass beta (Siri) that everyone's excited about. How times change...

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All very good, but it is a very narrow view based solely on the US. The real so called Blue Ocean is actually in the developing markets where the number of mobile phone users makes the US market pale in comparison. That would be the actual chart that you need to understand.

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Makes for pretty sad reading, and the situation with Android updates outside of the US is even worse. I share the exact sentiments with my Galaxy S i9003 that's still stuck on Froyo 2.2

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Highlights the perils of android being an open platform with very little control over the hardware & end user experience. And it's not just the users getting affected in this case.

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Makes for pretty sad reading for an OS that is supposed to be at version 4.0. Problems aplenty for both users & app developers.

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Definitely not an Android fan. I agree with the bit about the feel of the OS, but not the app variety on the market\app store.

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A pretty long read

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Draw a curve & have Google find query terms matching a similar search frequency

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An oldie from before the Google IPO in 2004, that seems hilarious in the current scheme of things, especially with gems like:
"Look at Google's competition: Yahoo, Amazon, and soon Microsoft. All three know more about their customers than Google, because all three have many years of portal experience. And Microsoft owns your desktop. Can Google compete?"
"Google has excellent brand recognition, but how much more saturation of the mass media can we expect before journalists get sick of it?" - Going by the recent hype over G+, the saturation doesn't seem to have set in even after 8 years.

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That's hitting the nail on the head

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Another piece on Android focusing on the business model:
"Some will argue that the best product will win the market and that Apple will still dominate the smartphone market. The history of the personal computer market is no omen for this thesis. If you think about it, the people that know this better than anyone are the exact Apple loyalists who have been frustrated for years at Apple’s lack of dominance in the PC market. Disruptive business strategies can and have trumped better products. And with no change to the current market, the Android leveraged position in the market could result in staggering unit share gains. This is not to say that the Google Android is better than or as good as the Apple iPhone. The key point is that it does not have to be. It only needs to be dramatically better than the current feature phone. Which it is."
"With its disruptive and leveraged strategy, it is Google that is attempting to be the Microsoft of the smartphone market. Perhaps ironically, Apple is well positioned to be the “Apple” of the smartphone market."

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Google is doing what Microsoft did, and in a very different way... "Android, as well as Chrome and Chrome OS for that matter, are not “products” in the classic business sense. They have no plan to become their own “economic castles.” Rather they are very expensive and very aggressive “moats,” funded by the height and magnitude of Google’s castle. Google’s aim is defensive not offensive. They are not trying to make a profit on Android or Chrome. They want to take any layer that lives between themselves and the consumer and make it free (or even less than free). Because these layers are basically software products with no variable costs, this is a very viable defensive strategy. In essence, they are not just building a moat; Google is also scorching the earth for 250 miles around the outside of the castle to ensure no one can approach it. And best I can tell, they are doing a damn good job of it."

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"Google Correlate finds search patterns which correspond with real-world trends"

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A sloppy & sluggish version of Google

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Not good at all. It goes on to show how dissimilar the dynamics of the mobile phone platform is to the PC. The members of the so called OHA seem to have locked up their contributions. So, is this a failure of open-source\free software?
Apple did make some

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Interesting take on Yahoo, and where technology startups should focus on. Also, big money distracts.

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"More than ten years into the widespread business adoption of the Web, some managers still fail to grasp the economic implications of cheap and ubiquitous information on and about their business. Hal Varian, professor of information sciences, business, an

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Interesting points of views from Google employees

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Pretty interesting thoughts: 'Although Google doesn't need to "win" the battle with Apple, Apple's hysteria, along with its insistence on fighting the wrong battles, means that Google has a decent chance of winning. HTML5 may be Apple's last chance to cha

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