the end of google is nigh!
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- QuincyArcher
according to steve ballmer;
http://www.businessweek.com/tech…
between this, and gates' comment out the end of the iPod, it seems clear to me that these men are obviously drunk. all day.
- JazX0
why? everything does come to end. Google's popularity will also end eventually.
- mrdobolina0
If mobile phones have 2 gigs of space, play mp3s and only cost a hundred bucks, people will start buying them in place of ipods. It is simple economics.
- mg330
They just love themselves so much.
- Jaline0
It'll end when something better comes up. The same thing happens to every other thing (Hotmail, Yahoo, Internet Explorer)
- TheTick0
No, no..not everything. I am living forever in heaven with Jesus.
All you godless heathens will die with your godforsaken internets. Google is a false idol.
- mg330
mrbdolina:
What kind of people will do that?
- JazX0
yep mrdobolina
- GeorgiePorgie0
No, no..not everything. I am living forever in heaven with Jesus.
All you godless heathens will die with your godforsaken internets. Google is a false idol.
TheTick
(May 19 05, 07:34)Bless you my son
- QuincyArcher0
why? everything does come to end. Google's popularity will also end eventually.
JazX
(May 19 05, 07:32)
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admittedly, yes. but that's a bigger picture then i care to look at right now.i guess what i'm getting at is that if other microsoft products are any indication, then i doubt msn will over take google any time soon.
- Hym0
- mrdobolina0
people who aren't mac geeks for life.
- Jaline0
people who aren't mac geeks for life.
mrdobolina
(May 19 05, 07:41)SNAP
- mg330
That's not necc. true.
Raise your hand if you would abandon large 20GB+ storage for your entire music collection in it's own unit for less music storage.
Because that's what it is. It won't sell me on it. I like having my phone seperate. I like my phone being small enough to fit in any pants pocket. I hate flip phones.
- mrdobolina0
what I said is not to say that people will completely stop buying ipods altogether. Don't get so defensive. it's just an mp3 player.
- mrdobolina0
plus, portable hard drives are getting smaller all the time.
Phone manufacturers are already starting to add storage in the gigabytes to their phones.
- mg330
I'm not being defensive :)
It's just that these sweeping statements by the likes of Bill Gates seem to be said because his power allows it to be said.
There is an enormous difference between a market for people not that interested in music who want do download the latest single every now and then, to their phone, and a market that wants all their albums at their fingertips.
The latter of which - people who really embrace mp3 players in a way that they essentially become their stereo at home, on the road, friend's homes, with headphones, etc.) I don't see as a group that will be too interested in a cell phone/mp3 player combo, even with potentially 5GB of storage.
Just trying to diferentiate between the two. :) I know it's just an mp3 player. There's a market for both things, I just don't see a tremendous amount of iPod converts giving up what they're used to for two devices to be combined into one.
- mrdobolina0
you can't really fuck with bill gates' track record though, ya know?
- JazX0
what I said is not to say that people will completely stop buying ipods altogether. Don't get so defensive. it's just an mp3 player.
mrdobolina
(May 19 05, 07:47)you can't really fuck with bill gates' track record though, ya know?
mrdobolina
(May 19 05, 08:00)ding ding
correcto!
- mg330
Yah, I guess he is good wizard/bad wizard.
- sparker0
ms said linux wasn't a threat, too.
ms wants to make, own and control everything. plain and simple.
it's not necessarily evil. but, just misguided.
and, as for my phone playing mp3's and holding my files. even though i'm a geek, i have mixed feeelings about convergence.
although i see the prospect of an all in one, "magic" device as cool; and usable. i do have to ask why?