wired.com - 7/24/2009
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Apple’s iPhone App Store may be a resounding success. But Google says app stores are a dead end.
Sour grapes? Maybe. It’s no coincidence that Google has placed its money on web-based applications, for its mobile Android operating system as well as its forthcoming Chrome OS.
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techcrunch.com - 7/28/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Earlier today we learned that Apple had begun
to pull all Google Voice-enabled applications from the App...
Store, citing the fact that they “duplicate features that come with the iPhone”. Now comes even worse news: we’ve learned that ...
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Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core, And It’s Likely ...
googlemobile.blogspot.com - 7/23/2009
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googlemobile.blogspot.com —
Unfortunately, since there is no mechanism for applications
to run in the background on iPhone (which applies...
to browser-based web apps as well), we're not able to provide continuous background location updates in the same way that we can for Latitude ...
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Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Latitude. Now for ...
daringfireball.net - 7/28/2009
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daringfireball.net —
I just posted the following correction to today’s
earlier piece on the Google Voice/App Store thing: Well,...
so much for my speculation. A reliable little birdie has informed me that it was indeed AT&T that objected to Google Voice apps ...
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Update: It Was AT&T
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What's In Store? Not Apps, Sez Google
iSmashPhone —
... where Google is investing.” Not so fast, retorted Interpret's technology strategist Michael Gartenberg, who pointed to Apple's App Store stats (65,000 apps, 100,000 developers, and a beellion downloads). “It’s odd that Google feels the need to position as one versus the other. That’s last century thinking...Ultimately, it’s about offering the best of both worlds to create the
best experience for consumers — not forcing them to choose one or the
other.” [Via Wired] ...
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