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After years of being participant in Chinese censorship, Google stops participating due to security breaches, and the entire internet praises Google for the move?

01.13.2010

Really?!
I’m shocked to say this, but I agree 100% with Valleywag’s take on this scenario:
“Only now, amid executive turnover at Google China and a continued failure to best their state-sponsored competitor there, and after Chinese hackers have endangered the company’s interests globally, does Google get firm on the issue of human rights. It’s a clever [...]

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And that is why Google Wave is, and will continue to be, a flop

01.12.2010

Gina Trapani, probably the greatest cheerleader for Google Wave’s success, today starts off a post about Wave, titled Frequently Asked Questions about Google Wave, with this very insightful sentence:
“Even folks usually bullish about new technology still don’t understand what they can use Wave for, how to sell it to their friends and co-workers so they [...]

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Google can’t keep a simple automatic door working; do you really think Wave is going to be a success?

10.05.2009

Regular readers of this blog will know that I think Google regularly latches on to too many projects, half-asses the majority of them, and only really excels at search. Why? Because search makes Google loads of money via their ad sales. Don’t forget this important point.
Now, this morning, as I sit at my desk, sipping [...]

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Speaking of tone

08.24.2009

Gruber posted something yesterday that is at least more like the type of explanation I would expect from a blogger who seems to enjoy lambasting the mistakes of others. Yet Gruber still sort of hides behind his source getting the story wrong and diverts blame to Apple’s semantics.
In other words, the tone of Gruber’s [...]

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For a blogger who seems to enjoy lambasting others’ mistakes…

08.22.2009

…and heralding his own correct assertions, this section of John Gruber’s admission that he was dead wrong about AT&T* being to blame for the Google Voice App not being approved for the iPhone falls a little flat:

“Based on Apple’s response, it seems my “devil’s advocate” hunch in my initial piece on this was pretty close [...]

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