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Apple bunging Bing search into iPhone? -- Engadget

The enemy of my enemy is my friend is what I figure Microsofts new approach is. This could get interesting, no one can touch the iphone, Apple did the same thing Microsoft did with the PC, they created a product, got people familiar with it, and will continue to ride that wave. This should be interesting, could apple and microsoft take out google? And a better question, what's the lesser of two evils with those two?
 
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OCBucksFan;1645953; said:
Apple bunging Bing search into iPhone? -- Engadget

The enemy of my enemy is my friend is what I figure Microsofts new approach is. This could get interesting, no one can touch the iphone, Apple did the same thing Microsoft did with the PC, they created a product, got people familiar with it, and will continue to ride that wave. This should be interesting, could apple and microsoft take out google? And a better question, what's the lesser of two evils with those two?
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I wonder if this has more to do with the ongoing fued between apple/at&t vs google?
 
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CentralMOBuck;1646105; said:
I wonder if this has more to do with the ongoing fued between apple/at&t vs google?
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I think there's that and there's the fact that Google is now pretty much directly taking money out of Microsofts pocket.

Google Docs is becoming really popular as a replacement for office.
Google Business Apps has become a common exchange replacement.
New Google Docs upload any file has given users access to file shares.

If Google can find a realistic way for people to develop sql type applications for the enterprise then Microsoft could lose a huge marketshare, as far as they have been concerned, there's no alternative to their options.

Apple now is dealing with Google who is basically giving users an open platform phone, and now ATT has an uproar from their users wanting the NexusOne.

The whole deal is really interesting, see Microsoft follows the idea that there is no competition for them, there's nothing else out there, and for Google to actually have done enough to get them to open their eyes tells me that they are taking a lot of money from them.

Overall, there's easy fixes but companies don't want to do them.

Microsoft, stop releasing shitty products and lower the cost of products that people need, like Windows and Office. Make your business products a little more manageable, anyone who's had to recover a crashed exchange server will understand where I am coming from.

Apple, stop holding peoples music hostage, and falling into the idea that "people are familiar with our product, we don't have to listen to what our users want" That's the idea that got Microsoft in this mess.

Either way, like I said, all 3 companies are in it to make money, and as far as Apple and Microsoft are concerned, one has the smart phone market cornered, the other has the home computer market cornered, neither wants to share any of that with anyone else, so we shall see.

Hopefully the winner out of all this is the consumer, but that's usually not the way it happens.

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MaxBuck;1646128; said:
Google Docs is not a replacement for Office. At best, it's a replacement for Notepad, hooked into an online collaboration tool.
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Don't know how recently you've checked out google docs, but documents can have tables, fonts, formatting, images, footnotes, and a lot of the features most home users use. Not to mention the spreadsheets and presentation tools are actually useful now, and accessable across any platform.

It's not a full replacement, but for home users who have very basic needs that don't want to shell out an additional 300 bucks, well, it's not a tough decision.

Not to mention the system resources that friggin' office takes, whether you like the product or not, there's a reason google keeps adding onto it, it's really popular and fills the needs for a lot of consumers.
 
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jwinslow;1646140; said:
I haven't viewed or edited many spreadsheets in notepad.
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OCBucksFan;1646141; said:
Don't know how recently you've checked out google docs, but documents can have tables, fonts, formatting, images, footnotes, and a lot of the features most home users use. Not to mention the spreadsheets and presentation tools are actually useful now, and accessable across any platform.
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Good points. Shouldn't have said Notepad; it's more like MS Works 64 (i.e., very lite).

God help you if you misplace your userid and password for Google Docs. I've found that MS Office doesn't require me to remember such stuff. Oh, and I'm not a home user. My wife is, though, and she still uses the version of Word I got when I worked in an enterprise that allowed me to get my own copy for $25. Word 2003 it may be, but it works a champ.
 
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MaxBuck;1646372; said:
Good points. Shouldn't have said Notepad; it's more like MS Works 64 (i.e., very lite).

God help you if you misplace your userid and password for Google Docs. I've found that MS Office doesn't require me to remember such stuff. Oh, and I'm not a home user. My wife is, though, and she still uses the version of Word I got when I worked in an enterprise that allowed me to get my own copy for $25. Word 2003 it may be, but it works a champ.
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Heh, well considering my google docs password is the same password for google mail, google wave, google voice, access to google reader and all essential for the droid, it's pretty easy to remember.

However, we've gotten away from where I was going :pissed:

The true flexibility for users is the fact that they don't have to back anything up, it can be shared to anyone with a gmail address and it does some pretty good conversion.

Anyways, stick with office 2003, because 2007 sucks and I hear 2010 is going to suck even more. Good thing they made Windows 7 pretty easy on the system resources, because they are going to make sure all that memory you got for vista is put to use.

Either way, this type of battle is interesting, wasn't it about 15 years ago that Microsoft basically bought apple and then gave it back to them to show who daddy was? Now they partner with Apple to try and take out a search engine company?

Apple could take opportunity here to really cost google a lot of money and get the iphone out to other carriers, a lot of people who have picked up Android phones did so because they didn't have an iphone option, yet instead of finding a way out of that exclusive, they have decided to declare war, this is going to get ugly.
 
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