Google’s latest antics
Man, that Fake Steve Jobs really knows what to say sometimes …
Finally, has anyone else noticed the way Google is kind of desperately grasping at straws lately? They spend years trying to do something other than search and nothing works. Then, despite their big brains and IQ tests, they get totally blindsided by Facebook and have to gin up this ridiculous OpenSocial thing. Just like with this phone thing, they round up all the losers in that social networking space to form some dumbass alliance. You know how it looks? It looks weak. Companies don’t form alliances and consortia when they’re winning. Also, whenever you see companies start talking about being “open,” it means they’re getting their ass kicked. You think Google will be forming an OpenSearch alliance any time soon, to help also-rans in search get a share of the spoils? Me neither.
(If you’re not familiar with the Open Social announcement, here’s a video with more info.)
This entry was posted on Thursday, November 8th, 2007 at 9:05 am. You can subscribe to comments on this post through its RSS feed.
on November 8, 2007 at 5:05 pm Doug wrote:
Hmm, it seems John Dvorak is also impressed with the Google phone …
Over the years, I’ve noticed that any company, anytime it wants, can now get dozens of other companies to agree to become a so-called strategic partner. This is done only to save the cost of postage for the strategic partner, who gets some lame press release distributed for free.