05-05-2013, 07:48 PM
So the future of laptops is as dumb terminals that rely on Google apps to be productive? Uh huh.
I agree that Google is beating Apple in the battle of the Clouds, and that if Apple doesn't leapfrog them they're in trouble. But Google half-asses 80% of what they do. They introduce new services and abandon them a couple years later. They upgrade their apps to include new features but rarely address longstanding bugs. Maybe they'll start acting like a software company and address user complaints, but I can't count the number of times in the past three or four years that I've torn my hair out over some Google app bug, only to find long discussion threads from other users with the exact same problem.
I wonder if that Fool of an author made the same argument in favor of the Mac platform ten years ago -- "Sure, it's more expensive, and runs only a fraction of the software, but it's really the smarter choice."
I agree that Google is beating Apple in the battle of the Clouds, and that if Apple doesn't leapfrog them they're in trouble. But Google half-asses 80% of what they do. They introduce new services and abandon them a couple years later. They upgrade their apps to include new features but rarely address longstanding bugs. Maybe they'll start acting like a software company and address user complaints, but I can't count the number of times in the past three or four years that I've torn my hair out over some Google app bug, only to find long discussion threads from other users with the exact same problem.
I wonder if that Fool of an author made the same argument in favor of the Mac platform ten years ago -- "Sure, it's more expensive, and runs only a fraction of the software, but it's really the smarter choice."