Google needed this deal far more than Apple. By embedding Gemini into 1.5 billion iPhones, Google secured its relevance as traditional search faces obsolescence in the AI era.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dr6neg766o I am sure there are people building these already, browsers fully integrated with LLMs, etc. But allowing OpenAI to just buy up access to 64% of web usage just...
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/18/tech/google-wiz-acquisition/index.html Google is still very much an advertising company, only around 20% by revenue from non-ads related business. They are good with indexing data. Should you really trust them with...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-off-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly It’s funny how US Gov keeps trying to make it difficult for their own companies to win, all in the name of fairness. Ignoring that users actually had the...
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/29/apple-says-its-ai-models-were-trained-on-googles-custom-chips-.html Another reminder that Nvidia is not the only player for AI chips even if they are the best. A little surprised that Apple didn’t have their M2 Ultra farm...
#Google keep releasing #pixel phones, late to market, with no unique features, year after year. theverge.com/23715900/googl…
RT @geoffreyhinton: In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies that I left Google so that I could criticize Google. Actually, I left so that I cou…
Don’t think anyone expected #Stadia to beat #PS5, #Xbox or #NintendoSwitch. But been too long since Google last had a new product that they are truly committed to. 9to5google.com/2022/09/29/sta…
Not ignoring the #privacy issue as such. But what do you think happens when you type out your search request on #Google to get instant suggestions? Of course they are...
My problem isn’t with #RCS as a standard to replace SMS/MMS/etc. But it’s with #Google having a bad track record of just keeping chat client app for a long time....
If you can view it, you can download it. 🙂 Not a perfect PDF, just the high-res images composed back as PDF. github.com/zeltox/Google-…
#Google was blaming #Apple for not supporting RCS. Clearly it was all about ad revenue. techcrunch.com/2022/06/04/goo…
It’s funny how #Google is the main one driving RCS because they have never had a successful messaging tool other than #gmail. I don’t think even RCS can beat WhatsApp...
What? Other map apps track your usage and #Apple Maps is designed not to? So evil. (We are still ignoring the fact that #Google tracks everything you ever searched for?)...
#macOSMonterey Live Text is great, not that we haven’t seen OCR before, but not as well integrated to the system and all done locally. I won’t trust #Google or #Facebook...
Will #Google finish the job and change mobile ad tracking on #Android? Or will it be protecting profit first? edition.cnn.com/2021/10/21/tec…
Did #Google win browser war just to provide a ubiquitous Chromium web platform for the most power web app to be #Microsoft Windows? techradar.com/news/microsoft…
Who will take this opportunity to come up with a better game and rendering engine whilst #Epic waste more time with #Apple and #Google? 9to5mac.com/2021/09/12/for…
Can you imagine #Google taking over #Linux kernel development? techradar.com/news/google-sl…
“When #RCS sees a complete Android rollout.” In 10 years? #Google hasn’t got a great track record with messaging apps, better rely on #Whatsapp or even #Instagram to support RCS....
That is a drawing of #MarkZuckerberg wearing #AR baseball hat? It’s not too ugly (just that we have seen uglier with sunscreen). 🙂 gizmodo.com/google-glass-w…
#Google, please don’t do it. Someone will hack it, use it to do bad things and you don’t want everyone to know how you are already tracking all their locations...
#Google not winning SMEs over since started to charge for G Suite, now rebrand as #GoogleWorkspace and make it “free” again. They don’t have a good record on freemium for...
#WWDC21 Wishlist: What’s if #Apple introduce their own search engine, all privacy safe, etc. Giving up the $12 billion or so from #Google each year?
#Facebook and #Google both sell ads, why didn’t we see Google kicking up a fuss about ATT and adopt similar idea for future #Android? Google knows it is in much...
Can you trust #Google or ad industry to come up with a replacement to Cookies which actively protect your #privacy? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Users are still actively feeding #Google with personal data. Can you blame them for selling more targeted ads to you? techcrunch.com/2021/03/30/goo…
#Google reminding us how it can track every user? #privacy bgr.com/2021/03/22/goo…
Not sure if I want to know that all future birthday wishes from friends and family using #Android are automated. cnet.com/how-to/google-…
Will #Google release the trillion-parameter model for download? Or will it keep it guarded like #GPT3 and plan to make a lot of money from it? #AI venturebeat.com/2021/01/12/goo…
