Comments on: Google’s Long Play http://repartay.com/2009/07/08/googles-long-play/ Like the French word, but less dignified Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:30:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Adam http://repartay.com/2009/07/08/googles-long-play/#comment-1042 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:25:44 +0000 http://repartay.com/?p=3212#comment-1042 Chrome OS is all a bunch of vapor at this point. The goal of the announcement was more geared towards taking the wind out of Microsoft’s announcement this coming Monday about the release of a cloud-based Office. On the topic of Google’s dependance on search, I’d recommend Mark Cuban’s recent post:
http://blogmaverick.com/2009/07/05/the-freemium-company-lifecycle-challenge/
As with anything Cuban says, take it with a grain of salt, but there are definitely some nuggets of gold in there.

]]> By: Mike http://repartay.com/2009/07/08/googles-long-play/#comment-1041 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:36:17 +0000 http://repartay.com/?p=3212#comment-1041 I like where you’re headed with the Macbook air bit. Having used one, I’d say the lack of any drives larger than USB is not of particular concern. If it wasnt so expensive the things would be everywhere.

Also, almost every google product starts beta-simple and adds complexity and features and eventually turns into something worthwhile (exceptions: Knol). Look at how much more intricate and integrated google maps or gmail is now than it was at launch.

This isn’t an original point, but Silicon Alley mentions that 50% of microsoft’s revenue comes from its OS, so this is a serious threat that microsoft can’t laugh off. And with Macs (unfortunately) on the rise, we could be looking at a 3 party system.

And last one — it’s been awhile since I commented, lot to unload here — like microsoft, google is almost entirely reliant on one thing for revenue: adwords and adsense. Ten years ago nobody had any idea what google would do. I was using fucking altavista to search the webs. Who’s to say how things will be in ten more?

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