Google's Schmidt offers strong words regarding Apple Maps flap - Page 4

I see what you mean about adoption. The last numbers I saw were 20%, And i see as of today its more like 60%. So let me amend that Google is waiting for people to use Maps for a few weeks, to see whether the reported user dissatisfaction is media hype or actual.

Nobody is going to switch to Android for maps (well very few anyway), especially given the alternatives on the iPhone.

As for the elementary logic, well, whatever, sometimes the most effective solutions are the simplest. As I said before, Google is not foolish enough to believe Apple customers will abandon the platform over Maps, and they need iOS users far more than Apple needs them, missteps with Maps or not.

Whether Googles strategy will be effective or not is irrelevant, the fact is Google has to be planning something more than just sitting around enjoying the screws being tightened on Apple by the media.
Edited by Mac_128 - 9/25/12 at 12:43pm

 

Nothing useful, since you got booted from Apple's board.

This thief, Eric Schmidt, has the balls to brag about Android's success! He sat on Apple's board and quietly took notes and ripped off the iPhone's features wholesale. That's why Steve Jobs hated him and Google with a passion. Why would Schmidt expect Apple to continue helping it's direct rival?

I've seen nothing released that proves he did just that and looking at the Android project's initial copying of the BB, Google's timeframe to copy the iPhone after it was announced, and how long it's taken Google to make Android come even close to the 2007 iPhone's responsiveness if it has was stealing IP he wasn't doing a very good job of it.

LOL ... Well said. Why do we even respond to these jerks eh?

I agree they have done a crappy job but that's what happens when you bolt a touch interface on top of an OS design for two thumbs and a tiny plastic keyboard in a hell of a hurry.

 

It is doubtful we'll ever have proof unless there is a lawsuit, but it's convincing enough for me that Jobs believed Apple had been ripped off -- and kept the iPad secret from Schmidt to keep Google from stealing that too.  

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1375121/In-The-Plex-New-book-Google-released-fall-China-Steve-Jobs.html

Oh, I can see with my eyes Google has ripped off Apple but to suggest that any stealing of Apple's IP was done by Schmidt taking secret notes at board meetings is unfounded. Samsung has stolen a lot more than Google has from Apple and I don't recall Psy going all Gangnam Style in Apple's board room. <== An attempt to be funny but I can see how that might be construed otherwise. Not my intention, but if it I'll change it or a mode can remove it.

That doesn't compute because Jobs said the iPad project was started first, then they pushed the iPhone out as a product first.

It's a shame that idiots and crooks can have such a negative effect on the value of a company's stock. The app works great, Google Maps work through Safari, and if you really think not having Street View is some kind of deal breaker, than you would probably appreciate the feature-itus found in many Android handsets. Anyone not listening to some heavy-handed blog entry is going to be fine with Maps, now or in 2-6 months.

Like?

Pot, kettle, black, much? Have you forgotten this little jem from Steve?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU

"Good artists copy. Great artists steal."

These lawsuits make Apple look like the biggest hypocrites on the planet.

 

Reefoid,   I realize that you are an Apple hater and probably a Fandroid also.  Cool  as an Apple hardware user, I (along with pretty much all Apple users) could care less.

 

However, for the sake of these Blogs, we get tired of being told that we are idiots or sheep or brain dead, just because we like what we like.  See how this works, you have US, we just like Apple and could care less what you use....  But we don't really appreciate you offending us by calling us names. 

 

Just a thought there. 

 

And how people quote it, whether they understand it or, like you, do not, is a litmus test for ignorance.

Nice response, except everything in it is pretty irrelevant.

 

I'm not an apple hater.  I'm not a fandroid.  I have no emotional attachment to any company, I use the tech that suits my needs.  I just get annoyed when people post rubbish as if it was the truth.  Nowhere in my post did I call anybody names.  If you were offended by my post, maybe you should step away from the internet right now as you seem a little over-sensitive to me.  Or are you just offended because I have a different viewpoint to you?  That is allowed, you know.

 

Just a thought there.