Investor Dave McClure at Google’s I/O conference in San Francisco said “Open is for losers”. He cited the iPhone and how successful it has been and that it is a completely closed world. You come in through Apple, play on Apple approved rides and pay Apple a premium for the amusement park.
According to the article at Venturebeat.com
Many of the other investors on the panel immediately grumbled about McClure’s response, offering the Internet and Google as examples of successful open technologies.
By Stu on March 8th, 2010
I have had a bit of a trouble believing Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto, unofficial or not. I don’t trust companies or governments to do things in my best interest, because that is not in their best interests. I left Gmail because of seeing ads for what was in my email. It is not the ads, but the idea of a company essentially reading my email. I’ll leave Microsoft’s hotmail the second I see this happen. I am not that concerned of my searches being tracked, but there is a point where that will go over the line and we are hitting it.
By Stu on February 23rd, 2010
I am in utter shock that InfoWorld has been caught with their pants down. Apparently Randall Kennedy, a paid writer for InfoWorld, is Craig Barth the CTO of Devil Mountain Software.
Wait… No I am not shocked that this happened. Since the tech media essentially has the story written on Microsoft and just waits for something to fit that mold to publish it. All you have to do is read virtually any story on Microsoft by the tech press to see what I mean; like a story at Computer World today “Google search share slips in China, Bing tiny in 2009”. Really a shock since Bing has only been trying to compete for the last year in China.
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By Stu on February 15th, 2010
So Microsoft announced Windows Mobile Phone 7 today. Looks great and since I really like the Zune UI, this should be a great experience. I have been holding off getting the Zune HD because I wanted to see if it was going to survive or not and WinPh7 (is that a good acronym?) is taking the Zune UI and placing a phone and whole host of other services with it.
I think it looks great and is a game changing moving from Microsoft, which was needed. Good job MS.
Check out the Official Website for Windows Phone 7.
Smashing Magazine has an article on How To Permanently Delete Your Account on Popular Websites. As a bit of a privacy nut, I dislike the concept of “everything to everybody” that sites like Facebook.com and others sets as default; it is why I stopped using Facebook entirely.
