This whole post sounds like some sort of crack-pot end-of-days rant. So let's get this straight.. Google is going to fall of the face of the planet when their 200 million installed Android base simultaneously throw all those devices in the garbage. And stop using google search. And stop using all of the other services which rely on google search. You sir, are brilliant!
Does not take brilliance to see the bleeding obvious:
Android in itself is not a mentionable profit stream nor are any other services Google provides. They make their money thru ads and it all hangs onto search, thats why they went mobile with Android and do all sorts of services, to attract more (keep) users (search marketshare).
To set things straight, whatever straight means - a bend is as straight as a line, depending on the level of perspective, math 6th grade I guess.
1. Google is search, 99%
2. Android is an OS supported by Google to ensure search is mobile
3. Android handsets will continue to work even if Google fails, no need to throw them away
4. Handsets average lifespan 2-4 years?
5. There was search before Google, there is search besides Google and there will be search after Google
6. No Google Ad revenues = no other service and products
7. Google´s services support search by luring the user onto Googles site, which is plain white with a search field
8. I have not complained nor decried Google buying up IP
9. I said that Google contributed a lot
10. What makes you think I am a Sir? The same logic you apply to the inner logic of your supposed argument? Or because "NEMACX" sounds male.
Might want to use some thought before depreciating others needlessly ("... sort of crack-pot end-of-days rant / You sir, are brilliant!...", obviously you are everything but brilliant. You might want to try being straight in the morning, e.g. sober?
I do think Google had a very limited business model in the search/ad space and they don't make much money from Android - there are estimates of $200m/year from advertising and their Android market - but the audience is huge. Over 6 billion hits a day from Google and Youtube and now over 200 million mobile users.
The only way they could fail is if the products they have become irrelevant to our future lives and I don't see this happening. Apple's Siri is their search revolution and being a front-end to search, it can make every information source equally unimportant but the leg-work has to be done to manage all of the world's online information and Google does this best.
Google has the only open mobile OS and this allows anyone and everyone to build a product of any kind without restrictions. Android can take over all the Windows CE, Symbian etc devices - sat-navs, low-end phones, low-end tablets, possibly router software, printer software:
Apple has the edge in hardware and overall quality as well as user experience.
Google has the edge in flexibility.
Microsoft has neither.
That's how I like it to be honest and I want both Apple and Google to succeed. Let IBM, HP, Microsoft, RIM, Nokia and all the other lethargic corporate companies go down.
Once Google Search falls from the throne all other products are negligible if they can be sustained at all without todays Ad revenue stream.
Users are becoming more and more aware of the value of their personal and private data. Awareness has risen since the advent of Facebook and will continue to do so. Googles logging and profiling just adds to the momentum. When the average users makes the connection between him searching on Google and later receiving spam and ads relating to earlier searches, when he realizes that most results are paid or commercial and that it is quite hard to find good and valid information he will start to ponder alternatives. And when the average Joe understands how Google profits off him he is going to ask his rightful share and moreover demand that he retains rights to his profiled data, meaning data is only licensed and can not be sold, especially without giving the unique owner its due - as is now the case.
Don´t be mistaken after all Google is nothing more than a search box. Boxes can and are being replaced. Googles other products are no longer unique, if they ever were, nor do they make Google what it is, they just shape the image and support the only business model they have: search.
If Google isn´t the one to cannibalize its own search someone else is going to.
SIRI is no search revolution. It is just a natural way for humans to access and activate functions and services on electronic devices. So it lets us access search thru voice, thats about it, does´t change the way search is being conducted underneath, not yet that is. That is what you pointed out yourself by calling SIRI the front-end to search.
Android may be open source, but it is basically a stolen product and has infringed on numerous patent licenses ( read patent ). So even if Android makes it, it won´t be a big source of revenue. Maybe if Google buys Oracle and Microsoft, but that isn´t anywhere near
Nor do I see flexibility in Googles setup. MS is much more flexible in that respect and has a brighter future than Google, once Balmer is gone that is. But that I guess that is a matter of perspective.
Comments
This whole post sounds like some sort of crack-pot end-of-days rant. So let's get this straight.. Google is going to fall of the face of the planet when their 200 million installed Android base simultaneously throw all those devices in the garbage. And stop using google search. And stop using all of the other services which rely on google search. You sir, are brilliant!
Does not take brilliance to see the bleeding obvious:
Google=Search=Ads=Profits.
Google Financial Table
Android in itself is not a mentionable profit stream nor are any other services Google provides. They make their money thru ads and it all hangs onto search, thats why they went mobile with Android and do all sorts of services, to attract more (keep) users (search marketshare).
To set things straight, whatever straight means - a bend is as straight as a line, depending on the level of perspective, math 6th grade I guess.
1. Google is search, 99%
2. Android is an OS supported by Google to ensure search is mobile
3. Android handsets will continue to work even if Google fails, no need to throw them away
4. Handsets average lifespan 2-4 years?
5. There was search before Google, there is search besides Google and there will be search after Google
6. No Google Ad revenues = no other service and products
7. Google´s services support search by luring the user onto Googles site, which is plain white with a search field
8. I have not complained nor decried Google buying up IP
9. I said that Google contributed a lot
10. What makes you think I am a Sir? The same logic you apply to the inner logic of your supposed argument? Or because "NEMACX" sounds male.
Might want to use some thought before depreciating others needlessly ("... sort of crack-pot end-of-days rant / You sir, are brilliant!...", obviously you are everything but brilliant. You might want to try being straight in the morning, e.g. sober?
Apple didn't buy the patents outright. There was a consortium of companies that bought the Nortel patents. Not the same thing as this!
Aside from the consortium part, what is the difference in motive?
I do think Google had a very limited business model in the search/ad space and they don't make much money from Android - there are estimates of $200m/year from advertising and their Android market - but the audience is huge. Over 6 billion hits a day from Google and Youtube and now over 200 million mobile users.
The only way they could fail is if the products they have become irrelevant to our future lives and I don't see this happening. Apple's Siri is their search revolution and being a front-end to search, it can make every information source equally unimportant but the leg-work has to be done to manage all of the world's online information and Google does this best.
Google has the only open mobile OS and this allows anyone and everyone to build a product of any kind without restrictions. Android can take over all the Windows CE, Symbian etc devices - sat-navs, low-end phones, low-end tablets, possibly router software, printer software:
http://kschang.hubpages.com/hub/7-We...-and-toy-robot
Apple has the edge in hardware and overall quality as well as user experience.
Google has the edge in flexibility.
Microsoft has neither.
That's how I like it to be honest and I want both Apple and Google to succeed. Let IBM, HP, Microsoft, RIM, Nokia and all the other lethargic corporate companies go down.
Once Google Search falls from the throne all other products are negligible if they can be sustained at all without todays Ad revenue stream.
Users are becoming more and more aware of the value of their personal and private data. Awareness has risen since the advent of Facebook and will continue to do so. Googles logging and profiling just adds to the momentum. When the average users makes the connection between him searching on Google and later receiving spam and ads relating to earlier searches, when he realizes that most results are paid or commercial and that it is quite hard to find good and valid information he will start to ponder alternatives. And when the average Joe understands how Google profits off him he is going to ask his rightful share and moreover demand that he retains rights to his profiled data, meaning data is only licensed and can not be sold, especially without giving the unique owner its due - as is now the case.
Don´t be mistaken after all Google is nothing more than a search box. Boxes can and are being replaced. Googles other products are no longer unique, if they ever were, nor do they make Google what it is, they just shape the image and support the only business model they have: search.
If Google isn´t the one to cannibalize its own search someone else is going to.
SIRI is no search revolution. It is just a natural way for humans to access and activate functions and services on electronic devices. So it lets us access search thru voice, thats about it, does´t change the way search is being conducted underneath, not yet that is. That is what you pointed out yourself by calling SIRI the front-end to search.
Android may be open source, but it is basically a stolen product and has infringed on numerous patent licenses ( read patent ). So even if Android makes it, it won´t be a big source of revenue. Maybe if Google buys Oracle and Microsoft, but that isn´t anywhere near
Nor do I see flexibility in Googles setup. MS is much more flexible in that respect and has a brighter future than Google, once Balmer is gone that is. But that I guess that is a matter of perspective.