O Google pintou ontem (de novo!) na nossa mesa, entre uma Original e outra(s).. várias..

Teorias da conspiração são diversão garantida. Revisamos os 'n' lançamentos [Earth, Moon, Talk, Desktop, ...] tentando descobrir o real objetivo do Google. Há algum? Segundo um dos meus gurus !whatafuckingcrazyidea! favoritos, não! Robert X. Cringely acha que todos (ou quase todos) os boatos que giram em torno do Google são só uma estratégia de "chateação". E garantia de presença quase diária na grande mídia (e no pequeno Graffiti, hehe).

Break: Ressacados! Reparem na data!! O post do X é de ontem, ok?

Sorry. Bom, saca só um trechinho:

"So are they really buying-up all the dark fiber in an effort to build their own Internet? Are they really going to build a data center in Oregon that uses so much power it needs to be next to a hydroelectric dam? Who knows? Who cares? Google needs ever more bandwidth, sure, so dark fiber makes sense to buy when it is probably as cheap as it is ever going to get. And those 30 acres on the Columbia River don't ever have to become anything since they've already paid for themselves by driving Microsoft and the others a little crazy with wondering.

Google is like that kid ahead of me at the bank, driving others mildly insane and enjoying every minute.

Microsoft is totally obsessed with Google because Bill Gates is obsessed with Google. In a way, Bill needs a bogeycompany like Google to motivate the troops, since they are no longer being wowed by Microsoft's stock performance. Not long ago, I spoke with someone from MSN who said the mood there was so tight that his co-workers were acting like "mad dogs."

Bow-wow."

obs do pv: bow-wow?!?! bow-wow?!?!?...



Voltando: para o Roberto Xis quem realmente ameaça a MS não é o Google. É a Apple!!
Ok, ok - soa repetido pq ele (e eu copiando) já falou isso antes. Acontece que a versão 3.0 da teoria do cara é duca. Saca só:

"What could Apple do to take down Windows, with or without the help of Intel?

What seems to me to be the answer came to me this week from a reader who had a disruptive idea that I gleefully embellished.

Here are the clues. Microsoft is woefully late with its next Windows upgrade, while Apple is far ahead with even the current version of OS X. Apple is moving to Intel processors and hackers have already shown that OS X can run fine on non-Apple hardware. But Apple doesn't want to give up its profitable hardware business to compete head-to-head with Microsoft. And remember, Apple totally dominates the portable music player market and will probably sell 25 million iPods or more this year.

Every one of those iPods is a bootable drive. What if Apple introduces OS 10.5, its next super-duper operating system release, and at the same time starts loading FOR FREE the current operating system version -- OS 10.4 -- on every new iPod in a version that runs on generic Intel boxes? What if they also make 10.4 a free download through the iTunes Music Store?

It wouldn't kill Microsoft, but it would hurt the company, both emotionally and materially. And it wouldn't hurt Apple at all. Apple hardware sales would be driven by OS 10.5 and all giving away 10.4 would do is help sell more iPods and attract more customers to Apple's store.

Like that kid in line at the bank, it would drive Bill Gates crazy."


Sou fã do cara! OS X.x open e free distribuído em iPods, causando erosões no mkt-share da MS e calafrios na espinha do Billu. Q blz!


Seguinte: te irritei com aqueles recortes ali que não explicam quem é o FDP na fila do banco? Ah, dá uma chance pro Roberto X. Vai no site dele que ele explica pq o moleque irrita tanto. E o Google tb. E este blog tb, quando é fim de tarde duma sexta, ressaquinha teimosa, sono, bow-wow... zzzzzzzzzzz