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How Steve Jobs Changed Google Plus

Posted by timothy on from the addition-problem dept.

Anthony_Cargile writes "Everyone thinks of Google Plus as a social networking website competing with Facebook, but that is no longer the case — even Google recognizes its failure in that regard. But in a meeting with Sergey Brin and Larry Page shortly before his death, Steve Jobs gave key advice as to what direction to take their company with regards to Google Plus, as is evidenced by their controversial new 'umbrella' privacy policy that went in effect this year. Privacy advocates beware, as the problem is almost certainly worse than ever anticipated."

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  1. Re:FFS. Steve Jobs is not god, you dimwits. by GrahamCox · · Score: 1, Troll

    Not sure why anyone would think I'm trolling, or even sticking up for Apple. I'm merely making an observation. The list of stuff they've readily abandoned (sometimes much to developers' annoyance) is pretty long.

    These are dead horses they not only didn't flog, they carted them off to the knacker's yard without ceremony:
    68000 processors, Hypercard, Claris , A/UX, Dylan, OpenDoc, eWorld, AppleLink, MPW, MacApp, Mac OS versions 1 through 9, MacTV, Pippin, The Resource Fork, File & Creator Types, PowerPC processors, Cube Mac, .Mac, MobileMe, Ping, Rosetta, Classic Environment, SCSI, Floppy Disk Drive, Mac Clones, FireWire, Gil Amelio.