Android is getting Exchange, Flash, and HTML5 support and is that is shoehorning? They all sound pretty much like current or future standards. Where do you get "shoehorning" from?
> This isn't about freedom, it's about a market choice. People have bought the iPhone and iPad in droves and have said, more or less, that the devices are compelling enough to buy even without Flash support.
Maybe for some that is true, but for others they are but sheep. Of course, those are the ones wondering why the website doesn't load correctly and don't even realize it's because Apple dictated that they cannot view it.
Why sarcasm? Apple put themselves in this position. Just like Google put themselves in the same position with the Nexus One. Of course, Google didn' lock themselves out of other Smartphone markets the way Apple did. Greed can make you a lot of money, but it can also hamper you in the worst possible way.
Apple wants complete and utter vendor lock-in. If it wants that, it will remain forever only a small niche market. Even if it produces great products.
It's all about not allowing unapproved apps to play on the iProduct. Everything else is mostly an excuse to hide the blatant fact. If it was truly about stability and performance, then iTunes among others wouldn't suck so bad.
Google Apps will now let you upload other types of files (including tarballs) though you have a maximum of 1GB of space.
We currently use a xWiki for heavily updated stuff like documentation and Google Apps for other things like spreadsheets and project planning / development that require signing off before becoming actual projects.
We have to watch capital expenditures also as we are a start up. For stuff Google Apps isn't good for, we use Open Office or Microsoft Office. Most of the guys that use MS Office are the ones that have DDE based spreadsheets that communicate with other applications that just do not function in Open Office. Outside of those spreadsheets, we use Open Office almost exclusively. (including when dealing with people outside of the company) This is where I think OpenXchange can help us as it has it's own Sharepoint type file sharing service. Especially since it scales way better than MS Exchange and is much cheaper.
>some large enterprises are seriously considering jumping from Exchange to Gmail, or already have
We use Google Apps and we are thinking about moving away from it. First off, their customer service sucks, two you get occasional outages and extremely poor performance quite often and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
Google Apps (spreadsheets, documents, etc) are usable only for non-professional things. Like documents shared within a work groups. Don't even think of using them for professional needs that will be used outside the company.
The contacts / calendar is nice. Especially if you have a Android phone where it syncs directly to it without having to hooking it up to your computer. (providing you aren't also trying to sync a normal (read personal) Gmail account. Gmail doesn't let you connect both a normal Gmail account and a Google Apps domain account at the same time (which REALLY SUCKS)
I've used Exchange and if managed properly, you can minimize your pain. Though we've also been looking into OpenXchange. It seems to have many pluses and some minuses also. (clunky interface)
If h.264 becomes THE web standard, then it should be striped of it's current royalty license and possibly be moved to the public domain for monopolistic reasons.
Now, I don't necessarily believe it should be moved to the public domain due to the fact that it has author and ownership, but having that much power of what is a standard is just wrong. Especially when the owner is trying to use it to dictate and harm competition the way they are.
As many have said, "If you don't like it, don't buy it."
Which is why I don't buy Apple products. I like their products, but I hate assholes like Jobs. Maybe once he is gone and IF their company policies change at that time, I will reopen that option.
One thing I've noticed of late is Apple and Microsoft appear to be in bed together these days. This supports that. I believe there are direct ties to MPEG-LA for both Microsoft and Apple. They stand to gain from H.264 being THE web standard and as Microsoft did early on and Apple is attempting to do now, snuff out the competition.
What does Google think the Nexus One is it's version of the iPhone? I own a Nexus One and I love the device, but Google is being morons the way they are holding onto it. I should be able to call my carrier for support, especially since Google is absolutely clueless on how to give customer support.
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Besides Windows (Which has GUI too) you forgot the following:
MS SQL
MS Exchange
Windows Domain Services (SMB & AD)
XBOX
Visual Studio and all it has entailed (MS VC++, MS Basic, etc)
MS Outlook
MS Word
MS Excel (hell the entire Office Productivity Suite)
DirectX
All that and I'm sure there is alot more I haven't named that were wildly successful. (Halo maybe?)
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Steve Jobs was always obsessed with what Bill Gates had / was. Which is why Apple is what it is today. Closed and controlling.
I like Apples products, I just hate the dictatorship them impose on them. That is all a product of Steve Jobs. Once he is gone, hopefully Apple will become more customer choice friendly.
It's ongoing. Which is why with the release of the iPad they are seeking an injunction against the sale of their products. They aren't suing them again, they are trying to stop the sale of the products to apply more pressure to Apple.
I wrote this guy off the second he mentioned Walmart's database. How Walmart uses databases vs Facebook or Twitter is completely different. I'm pretty sure Walmart doesn't have 6 million people writing to that database at any given time.
Since Microsoft has decided to tow the line, it's going to be tough for them. Exactly how much money is to be made in China? I think Google pulling out wasn't completely about morality. I think they just sold it as such. I think it had to do more with the extreme overhead in dealing with the Chinese governemnt. Like in managing massive filters that are required. Not just for existing content, but new content. Tie that in with the fact that probably every 2 minutes, the Chinese government adding 50 new things to be filtered.
I liken SPAM management to web filtering, but web filtering is on a much much larger scale. There isn't just around one to two thousand people writing web content. There are around 116+ million domains and around 150,000 new domains each day. (http://whois.sc/internet-statistics/) The dataset is astronomical. I'm sure installing WebSense is inadequate.
Good luck Microsoft. Not sure it's going to be as profitable as you think. Not to mention, I'm not sure China is all tat Microsoft friendly. I seem to recall the Chinese government forcing people to uninstall Windows in favor of Red Flag Linux.
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I've noticed lots of slow responses or no responses from Google servers lately. (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Search, Youtube, Google Maps, etc) It doesn't happen all the time, but many many times throughout the day. Has anyone else noticed this? If so, is anything known about it? DOS, etc?
The second Apple or Microsoft started a patent war with Linux someone would in their camp would utter the same words Isoroku Yamamoto did right after attacking Pearl Harbor in World War II.
Isoroku Yamamoto: I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
I think this is only posturing on Google's part. While China isn't a huge profit machine right now for them, access to 1.3B Internet users will be a big deal down the road.
If they step aside, they will only be opening the door for the growth of Bing. Since search is probably 99% of their income, giving way to a competitor is not something they want to be doing.
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Android is getting Exchange, Flash, and HTML5 support and is that is shoehorning? They all sound pretty much like current or future standards. Where do you get "shoehorning" from?
> This isn't about freedom, it's about a market choice. People have bought the iPhone and iPad in droves and have said, more or less, that the devices are compelling enough to buy even without Flash support.
Maybe for some that is true, but for others they are but sheep. Of course, those are the ones wondering why the website doesn't load correctly and don't even realize it's because Apple dictated that they cannot view it.
Why sarcasm? Apple put themselves in this position. Just like Google put themselves in the same position with the Nexus One. Of course, Google didn' lock themselves out of other Smartphone markets the way Apple did. Greed can make you a lot of money, but it can also hamper you in the worst possible way.
Apple wants complete and utter vendor lock-in. If it wants that, it will remain forever only a small niche market. Even if it produces great products.
It's all about not allowing unapproved apps to play on the iProduct. Everything else is mostly an excuse to hide the blatant fact. If it was truly about stability and performance, then iTunes among others wouldn't suck so bad.
I saw this at least three days ago. Either this is a dupe story or I saw it in my SlashBoxes three days ago.
Google Apps will now let you upload other types of files (including tarballs) though you have a maximum of 1GB of space.
We currently use a xWiki for heavily updated stuff like documentation and Google Apps for other things like spreadsheets and project planning / development that require signing off before becoming actual projects.
We have to watch capital expenditures also as we are a start up. For stuff Google Apps isn't good for, we use Open Office or Microsoft Office. Most of the guys that use MS Office are the ones that have DDE based spreadsheets that communicate with other applications that just do not function in Open Office. Outside of those spreadsheets, we use Open Office almost exclusively. (including when dealing with people outside of the company) This is where I think OpenXchange can help us as it has it's own Sharepoint type file sharing service. Especially since it scales way better than MS Exchange and is much cheaper.
>some large enterprises are seriously considering jumping from Exchange to Gmail, or already have
We use Google Apps and we are thinking about moving away from it. First off, their customer service sucks, two you get occasional outages and extremely poor performance quite often and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
Google Apps (spreadsheets, documents, etc) are usable only for non-professional things. Like documents shared within a work groups. Don't even think of using them for professional needs that will be used outside the company.
The contacts / calendar is nice. Especially if you have a Android phone where it syncs directly to it without having to hooking it up to your computer. (providing you aren't also trying to sync a normal (read personal) Gmail account. Gmail doesn't let you connect both a normal Gmail account and a Google Apps domain account at the same time (which REALLY SUCKS)
I've used Exchange and if managed properly, you can minimize your pain. Though we've also been looking into OpenXchange. It seems to have many pluses and some minuses also. (clunky interface)
If h.264 becomes THE web standard, then it should be striped of it's current royalty license and possibly be moved to the public domain for monopolistic reasons.
Now, I don't necessarily believe it should be moved to the public domain due to the fact that it has author and ownership, but having that much power of what is a standard is just wrong. Especially when the owner is trying to use it to dictate and harm competition the way they are.
As many have said, "If you don't like it, don't buy it."
Which is why I don't buy Apple products. I like their products, but I hate assholes like Jobs. Maybe once he is gone and IF their company policies change at that time, I will reopen that option.
One thing I've noticed of late is Apple and Microsoft appear to be in bed together these days. This supports that. I believe there are direct ties to MPEG-LA for both Microsoft and Apple. They stand to gain from H.264 being THE web standard and as Microsoft did early on and Apple is attempting to do now, snuff out the competition.
Was the US included in that list? If not, it should have been!
What does Google think the Nexus One is it's version of the iPhone? I own a Nexus One and I love the device, but Google is being morons the way they are holding onto it. I should be able to call my carrier for support, especially since Google is absolutely clueless on how to give customer support.
OSXI ;)
Besides Windows (Which has GUI too) you forgot the following:
All that and I'm sure there is alot more I haven't named that were wildly successful. (Halo maybe?)
Steve Jobs was always obsessed with what Bill Gates had / was. Which is why Apple is what it is today. Closed and controlling.
I like Apples products, I just hate the dictatorship them impose on them. That is all a product of Steve Jobs. Once he is gone, hopefully Apple will become more customer choice friendly.
Um. No it's not. Not sure where you got it was dead. It's not even close to dead.
It's official, I'm going to start avoiding /. on April 1st. These is just dumb.
It's ongoing. Which is why with the release of the iPad they are seeking an injunction against the sale of their products. They aren't suing them again, they are trying to stop the sale of the products to apply more pressure to Apple.
I wrote this guy off the second he mentioned Walmart's database. How Walmart uses databases vs Facebook or Twitter is completely different. I'm pretty sure Walmart doesn't have 6 million people writing to that database at any given time.
Since Microsoft has decided to tow the line, it's going to be tough for them. Exactly how much money is to be made in China? I think Google pulling out wasn't completely about morality. I think they just sold it as such. I think it had to do more with the extreme overhead in dealing with the Chinese governemnt. Like in managing massive filters that are required. Not just for existing content, but new content. Tie that in with the fact that probably every 2 minutes, the Chinese government adding 50 new things to be filtered.
I liken SPAM management to web filtering, but web filtering is on a much much larger scale. There isn't just around one to two thousand people writing web content. There are around 116+ million domains and around 150,000 new domains each day. (http://whois.sc/internet-statistics/) The dataset is astronomical. I'm sure installing WebSense is inadequate.
Good luck Microsoft. Not sure it's going to be as profitable as you think. Not to mention, I'm not sure China is all tat Microsoft friendly. I seem to recall the Chinese government forcing people to uninstall Windows in favor of Red Flag Linux.
Thats right. YOU have syphilis Facebooker! :)
I've noticed lots of slow responses or no responses from Google servers lately. (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Search, Youtube, Google Maps, etc) It doesn't happen all the time, but many many times throughout the day. Has anyone else noticed this? If so, is anything known about it? DOS, etc?
The cost involved in laying fiber, maintaining it and the network itself is far from free.
The second Apple or Microsoft started a patent war with Linux someone would in their camp would utter the same words Isoroku Yamamoto did right after attacking Pearl Harbor in World War II.
Isoroku Yamamoto: I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
I think this is only posturing on Google's part. While China isn't a huge profit machine right now for them, access to 1.3B Internet users will be a big deal down the road.
If they step aside, they will only be opening the door for the growth of Bing. Since search is probably 99% of their income, giving way to a competitor is not something they want to be doing.
I highly doubt Google folds up shop in China.