Comments on: Antitrust inquiry: How Apple and Google compete

By: Filipe

Filipe — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:27:07 +0000

ok iDisk, google docs, gmail, and apples mail are all repitions of MobileME and iGoogle lol…

By: billy, South Holland, IL

billy, South Holland, IL — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:43:15 +0000

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

By: Ralph, Pburg NJ

Ralph, Pburg NJ — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:47:42 +0000

I just want to reply to Jeff. People can use Safri (apples browser) and google can still make money through ads, because more then likly they are using google.

By: Jonathon Podolsky, Northampton, MA

Jonathon Podolsky, Northampton, MA — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:52:05 +0000

This sounds great to me! Just combine their apps/products that are not good on their own, spin-off ones that truly compete, continue as normal with the good ones that don't compete.

2. There are some "apps" or "products" that would get a lot better by consolidating into one, to become "the best of both worlds." Hopefully.

2. Achieve a critical mass for combined products that will make improvements economically feasible.

3. Stop wasting customers time with redundant versions that aren't good.

4. More apps/products can be made to sync/integrate with each other

5. It will accelerate the move of Apple programs to the Cloud (but still have offline versions/backups).

6. As more Apple programs move to the Cloud, customers will benefit by being able to access them from either platform (Mac or PC)

7. By eliminating redundancies, talented engineers and programmers will be freed up to work on something more useful.

By: Anonymous, Atlanta, GA

Anonymous, Atlanta, GA — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:59:41 +0000

The best example of this would be the lack of a multi touch screen on the Android phones.

Iphones have multi touch but Android phones have been designed to not allow multi touch input (even though the phone/screen is capable of it) making the screen on the Iphone far superior. Look it up.

By: Alechemist, Chapel HIll, NC

Alechemist, Chapel HIll, NC — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:59:22 +0000

Genentech, a "gene-splicing" company? Sheesh, I know it's a high-tech blog, but Genentech was pretty much the world's first biotech company with a long history of therapeutics (none of which are related to gene therapy). They single handedly created the SF biotech community.

This is kinda like calling Apple a peripherals company because their computers can work with peripherals.

ex ped: Alchemist, I think you are confusing gene splicing with gene therapy. Genentech is certainly a leader in therapeutics, but I will always think of it as a gene splicing company because it was co-founded by Herb Boyer, the scientist who discovered one of the key gene-splicing techniques — a method of combining genes from bacteria with genes from eukaryotes. Genentech was launched on the strength of the synthetic insulin and growth hormone Boyer produced using those new transgenic bacteria.

By: Cagle, Decatur, GA

Cagle, Decatur, GA — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:03:20 +0000

Safari uses WebKit. Chrome uses WebKit. They are based on the same open-source engine, whereas Firefox uses Gecko, which is a totally different open-source engine. This may not be common knowledge, but it's not a secret.

By: Rajan, cambridge, MA

Rajan, cambridge, MA — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:44:58 +0000

Recused or not, there is seeping stink of monopoly and a case against them.

Example:

StreetView panorama in Android/iPhone. The Apis, looks

like are proprietary and exchanged between only Google and Apple.

As a independent Android/iPhone developer, I can not seem to find how I can not decode the objects for the streetview panorama.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:25:12 +0000

Google? Free? Sure, but you trade your privacy and in some cases, your rights to your content.

By: Dillon , Van Vleck,Tx.

Dillon , Van Vleck,Tx. — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:58:48 +0000

They don't compete in any way ,and if they united as one they would most definately give microsoft a scare.