Some of my favorite Dos Equis quotes
He has been known to increase property values by 30% by his mere presence alone.
He gave two words of advice to a waitress once. That waitress now owns an airline.
He got pulled over in Texas once. After apologizing the cop wrote HIMSELF a ticket.He left his favorite pair of cuff links on the moon…so he went back and got them.
Does anyone have anymore to add to this list?
Last time I checked, I had the freedom to buy or *not* to buy Apple products and services. I’m more worried about the gulf oil spill than I am Apple taking over my digital life.
I’m trying to remember a time where there was such hatred and vitriol towards a tech company. Seriously? The nerd rage against Apple has been a bit over the top as of late. Maybe that’s just human nature, people choose sides and decide that the “other” side is the evil force of nature.
I really tried to watch the Google IO keynotes. I ended up just grabbing snippets here and there and the overall theme seemed to be “We are the white knights here to save you from the big bad company who is hell bent on taking your freedoms!!”
Here’s a suggestion for the next Google IO conference: Everyone who has an axe to grind against apple and the “freedoms” they are taking, should be dressed in kilts , faces painted in blue and armed with broadswords. Every time I hear “freedom” and “openness”, I imagine Google as Mel Gibson in the movie “Braveheart”.
Google and Apple are both multi billion dollar companies who want to make money. Make no mistake, Google is only as “open” as long as openness serves the bottom line. That’s not to say that they (Google) are any more or less “evil” than Apple.
I agree with Kara Swisher with her post: Viral Video: Google’s Laughable-But Not So Funny-Apple Tantrum.
Unfortunately, the continued verbal jousts at Apple (AAPL) by many Google (GOOG) execs–including CEO Eric Schmidt–onstage at the San Francisco developers conference got tired pretty quickly and soon felt petty and juvenile, and ultimately made Google look needlessly defensive.
I’m not writing this post to defend Apple’s honor (they can defend their own honor just fine). The moment Apple stops executing in a way that benefits their customers, those customers will spend their hard earned money elsewhere.
At the end of the day, it is all about choice. Maybe people are pissed at the fact that a lot of people are choosing iPhone OS devices. Maybe not. In my humble opinion, for Android to truly outpace and outclass the iPhone, they need to be a better platform. Focus on what makes Android great and not just what it does “better” than the iPhone. Android should be a first choice and not a second choice or a “poor mans iPhone”.
Google has now shown their cards and in a couple of weeks, we will see Apple’s response at WWDC 2010. One final thought: Keep in mind the iPhone was released in June of 2007. Either Vic Gundotra is rewriting history (Speaking about the reasoning for “creating android”) or even more troublesome, Eric Schmidt passed on confidential information about Apple’s iPhone plans to Google while he sat on Apple Board. Either way it doesn’t look good for Google.
Ninth worker death at Taiwan iPhone firm Foxconn
This is truly a terrible thing. What I’d like to know is whether this is being published because it’s Apple and that it happens in a lot in China factories? Or is this truly isolated to the factory works for Apple’s shiny products.
“Here’s the reality of the Android situation now: if you buy an Android phone, it will most likely be locked down by your carrier, possibly also with some features disabled. Or, to use Tim Bray’s term, the reality is that most Android phones that get bought are a “curated experience”. ”
- That is exactly what I have been saying. Sure, Apple has it’s issues but by getting an iPhone your getting an iPhone experience. (With the exception of freaking tethering).