And The Next Battle Is Apple vs. Google... As Microsoft/Yahoo Fade Off Into The Sunset?
from the moving-on dept
Ah, the shifting tech world landscape. For the past few years, the monsters of the tech world were considered to be Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, in that all three seemed to be competing in the same arena. However, with Yahoo stumbling and Microsoft still failing to get much traction in the online world (yes, a bit more than in the past, but not enough to be interesting), everyone's looking for a new fight. Slashdot points us to a story of some analyst predicting (based on nothing, really) that Apple may start its own search engine. It appears that this is pure guesswork, based on the idea that Apple might not want Google paying close attention to what people are doing on their iPhones... especially as it builds up its own mobile device business.While plenty of virtual ink has been spilled over the Google/Apple device battles, could they be approaching a bigger online battle as well? It's certainly not outside the realm of possibility -- and given its control over the devices it sells, perhaps it could get a pretty good starting position with a search engine. Still, it does seem like a bit of a reach for Steve Jobs and company. At this point, it seems more like some analyst just looking for a more interest "Google vs." prediction than anything serious at this point.
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Real Battles or created by the press?
Most big software companies have some overlap in products; don't they? And plenty of areas where their products are complimentary not competitive.
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Who?
Can't say I recognize that other name...
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mobile ads
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Google V/s Apple
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apple search
Google will still have the info with or without the search engine.
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What is 'Window Mobile'? Seriously, no one takes WM seriously, at least not yet. In that light, I would hardly call Microsoft 'Far Ahead'. The media if rife with comments and commentary about how Windows is the next big dinosaur, soon to me replaced by the network os. I don't believe Microsoft is as huge and far ahead as you think it is.
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OK all kidding aside I am pretty sure that when Mike said "Microsoft still failing to get much traction in the online world (yes, a bit more than in the past, but not enough to be interesting)" that he was referencing search in particular (seems to be pretty clear in the context to me). Latest News shows that for Search the market share is thus ... Google 69.97% / Yahoo 15% / Microsoft's Bing 9.6% {http://www.marketwatch.com/story/yahoo-gains-us-search-share-in-march-report-2010-04-07}
Windows 7 is a very cool OS by far the best Microsoft has ever produced but it certainly is not the only game in town. As far as Windows Mobile goes Microsoft has some catching up to do. I use a Windows Mobile 6.1 Smartphone Myself (HTC Mogul / PPC 6800) because of the ease of moving information in and out of windows, but I know a lot of people who like the iPhone (I personally have no interest in dealing with Apple's proprietary BS) and the Android OS. I am waiting for Windows Mobile 7 before I upgrade and I hope that Microsoft does equally as well with Windows Mobile 7 as they did with Windows 7 but Microsoft's past performance does not inspire much confidence in that.
Responding to how much money Microsoft has in the bank. 1) Cite your source because I doubt they have that in any bank, total holdings or cash equity maybe, but actually in the bank, doubtful. 2) Who Cares? The "I will crush you with my wallet" defense may work in court but does not measure actual leadership or innovation.
Next?
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We have been hearing some version of this for the last 15 years or so (basically since windows took over the desktop) and most likely be hearing it for the next 15 years with still little change
The "cloud" might eat into the desktop application's market a bit but it will have no impact on the OS market any time soon, people are just too used to windows and loath to change
Even then the cloud will have an impact nowhere near as much as the media goes on about and what impact it does have will actually be greater in the personal/home/small company computing market than the corp. market, large companies are loath to just hand over their data to some 3rd party, which might be in another country and governed by totally different rules (in some cases they are already laws against this, such as customers personal information being sent from UK to the US due to the lax US data protection laws)
MS have been slow on properly jumping into the mobile market, but then they always have been slow on everything they do. But when they fully get behind something they generally take over, not because they do best working product (that in this case, OS's, would be apple) but rather because they do the most flexible, easy to use, product that suits the needs of the widest possible audience (defiantly not apple)
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One acronym: OS7 (at least the first several variants)
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Apropos tangent
Investors are idiots who think that there should only be a #1.
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ISP's are redirecting traffic to their own sites to show ads, there was this one incident this days that the ISP was even redirecting google traffic to it's own ad servers.
If there is going to be a fight will be google against ISP's.
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apple what
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Mac System 7- @ Free Capitalist
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Yahoo is just a website...
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