People know not to post anything too secret on Facebook or Twitter, even just to a friends list, because Facebook has become a person’s public or semi-public face on the Internet. In the case of Gmail, Google Drive, and Picasa, user data is fundamentally private in a way that it isn’t on Facebook. "Google faces a real problem in trying to “socialize” its properties that Facebook doesn’t. That's part of its legacy."" Mitch Kapor remembers Lotus' Macintosh bomb | Apple - CNET News As a cultural artifact, people are going to be talking about it for centuries. Now, when you look where things have gotten in 30 years, you go, 'Oh, it just had the taste.' I think it's one of Steve's great creations. "At the time, because I was so in the geek world, it really seemed like this was it. In hindsight, we could see it was mostly selling the promise," Kapor said. "It set the tone for a consumer information technology product that was about elegance and simplicity, and aesthetics. "It was Bill being brilliantly strategic again, cutting us out from being there early, so 10 points to Gryffindor on that." "That fact was not disclosed and that's why Mike Boich was discouraging to us, and he was embarrassed or was difficult," he said.
"Kapor later discovered that Lotus rival Microsoft had an exclusive contract to bring its Multiplan spreadsheet to the Mac.
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Samsung has reportedly agreed to reduce the modifications it makes to Android so that Google’s services will be more prominent and the software will look more like Google’s vision." Google's Sale of Motorola Could Help Samsung - Įxcerpt from another snapshot of the early days of the Mac Google would like to get its Internet services running on as many mobile devices as possible. Google stands to benefit from Samsung as well. With Google out of the handset-making business, Samsung can scale back on those efforts and build on its position as the leading seller of Android phones.
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But Samsung has been developing its own mobile operating system, Tizen, partly in case Google put its full weight behind building its own hardware. Samsung phones largely run on Android, Google’s mobile operating system. "Google’s ownership of Motorola was always something of a threat to Samsung, which is the No. Interesting that this shift coincides with Microsoft going in the other direction, as a platform purveyor, with Surface and Nokia