Monthly Archives: April 2013

Google’s Double Dare to Apple

As if Android (software) was not enough, Google brought its Nexus (hardware) in the war front to double the challenges for Apple.

Google Nexus is reportedly to be launched in July this year with a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and a higher screen resolution compared to current 1280×800 pixels. Google aims at shipping a whopping eight million Taiwanese manufacturer Asustek-made tablets in the second half of the year.

I’m wondering if Google is trying to compete with Apple’s iPad mini 2 or directly with Apple. Because by now almost all of its revenue (which I suppose, is very huge) came from online advertising.

I guess Google is up to something more than money and that Apple’s ex CEO, Steve Jobs’ advice to Larry Page is standing in way of Apple.

So, Apple still wants to market on Steve Jobs name

It seems that the Steve Jobs era is not over at Apple. I read on internet that Steve Jobs was involved in the development of the next two versions of iPhone. It means that the two versions of iPhone were developed before CEO Tim Cook took the helm of the company.

Apparently when San Francisco District Attorney, George Gascón got disappointed by service providers, he persuaded Apple with high expectations to come up with a plan to cut on reported surge in thefts of iPhone and iPads in metropolitan cities like New York, as reported by San Francisco Examiner.

But he said his meeting and conversation with Apple’s government liaison, Michael Foulkes was very underwhelming as he didn’t want to hear about the process of researching and producing a kill-switch technology for devices or the next two generations of iPhones, but wanted a plan in place instead.

However I think having a kill-switch technology would at least reassure victims about their phone data not being misused. I am waiting for Apple’s latest technology. I hope that would reduce the iPhone thefts too.

And about Apple using the great Steve Jobs’ name, I think as long as it stays innovative it will anyways be on edge regardless of marketing its products with bright man’s (Steve Jobs) personal brand.

Google has a great sense of humor

The first thing what I do every morning is get a glimpse of Google on my lappy as I have set it as my Home page. Today, I found “Google Nose” on the page and was curious to know what it meant. I clicked on the link and was landed to “Google Nose” page. I was tempted to click on the button “Try Google Nose”. After clicking, I was directed to the “Hair spray page.” When I went on the “Start smelling” button, I took my nose closer to the laptop screen & pressed enter. I couldn’t smell anything for the first few seconds. I tried again and again, but didn’t get any smell. I saw the option of “Need help?”, I clicked on it and found that I was fooled by Google.

This is what I got to read:

If you are experiencing problems with Google Nose^BETA, please note the following:

“418: Scent transfer protocol error” indicates system congestion; please try again later.
Due to technological constraints, not all smells are compatible with all devices.
Refrain from licking or biting your screen.
Try upgrading to a modern browser, such as Google Chrome.
It is April Fools’ Day.

Check Google’s “new scentsation in search” and all other Google jokes for April Fools 2013.