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OCBucksFan;1671018; said:
Then... Apple pulls the chickenshit tactic of going after the smallest company they could, if they win that suit, they beat google without ever having to fight them.
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There's more than one shareholder at Apple that wants to see Google dead.

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Dryden;1671029; said:
There's more than one shareholder at Apple that wants to see Google dead.

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Indeed, Google is doing the one thing that Microsoft has always said they couldn't do "You can't make money giving away stuff for free." Google went and evaluated what "free" really meant. Microsoft, just like Yahoo, knew the importance of IM/Email/Search, they knew the amount of money in advertising that was to be made, but, they went about it all wrong.

Huge banners, pop ups, spam mail, all of this is what really moved people away from those two, and both are still trying to recover. On top of that many people reported the best results went to the highest paying customer. Google gave us small ads, no pop ups, awesome spam protection, then topped all that off with a billion other services. How do you compete with a company that's just giving stuff away? Normally you just wait til the lunatic goes broke, but that loon is actually making money doing this.

There's a lot of concerns about how much information you give to Google, but if there wasn't google, there would just be someone else. The internet is an enormous vat of information, people have spent the last 10 years trying to figure out how to access it and make money off of it. Companies you did business with 7 years ago have records of what you bought and they have meetings to figure out how to get you to buy again, how to best market to you.

Someone figured out a way to do this, and now everyone is standing there waiting to be the next company to do this.

This "war" really won't have a huge effect on any company.

Apple has a generation already prepared to move to the iphone, that's not going away, the iPad may work, or it may fail, either way, it's an idea that Apple has gotten out there.

Microsoft, well, Microsoft's money is in 2 places, the workplace and in MS Office, and neither one is going away, especially on the business front. Sure, google has docs and apple has been spending years trying to make something that's worth while so they don't have to tell their customers to us a MS product, but that's where their money is and they know it. Sure, Windows server may not be the dominating product it once was, but Windows 7 on the desktop still is and most likely always will be.

Google will just do what Google does, search makes them tons of money, they will continue to expand on that and look into getting into other areas, ideas where they think their innovations and business strategies could profit, and they'll continue to do it in a way that benefits the customer. Sure, companies will continue their smear campaigns on them, but google will always do something to make the end user happy.

People can bitch about google and privacy, they can complain about microsoft and security or they can whine about apple and control, the thing is, there's viable options for all, they just aren't convenient. Want a secure OS that you can do anything with? It's out there, want privacy when you are on the internet, learn about proxies, pgp encrypted messages, and discard any service that can be logged.

This was a war, that looked like we were about to see two innovative companies go at it and the customer, me and you, was going to sit and go "this is awesome" instead, it's just turned into Steve Jobs sitting in a sandbox and crying whenever any kid comes near it.
 
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Apple Banning Protective Screen Film From Stores - Apple Store - Gizmodo
According to iLounge, Apple is instituting a ban on all protective screen film products from its online and retail stores starting in May. It's a move that'll take away some of Apple's most popular third-party products. But what for?

Apparently the ban is going to cover both film-only products and cases that incorporate protective screens. It applies to products both decorative and protective across all Apple product lines. And while they didn't give vendors an explicit reason for the move, some have speculated that it's a move by Apple to promote their screen durability claims.
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Of course, these products will still be available through channels outside of the Apple Store, which makes it even more puzzling. If people want a film screen for their iPod or iPhone or Mac, they're going to be able to find it whether it's in the Apple Store or not. And when they do, that's business Apple's missing out on.
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I believe it's because Apple patented the idea of protecting something by covering it.

Parents - you are no longer allowed to throw yourself on top of your child to shield them from harm. Sorry. http://gizmodo.com/5495701/apple-banning-protective-screen-film-from-stores#
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Easy. The screen protectors were making people's iPhones look better for longer periods of time. By removing them, Apple makes it so people need to replace their iPhones regularly because they're scratched.
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Easy. The screen protectors were making people's iPhones look better for longer periods of time. By removing them, Apple makes it so people need to replace their iPhones regularly because they're scratched.
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I would actually go with the opposite. The screen protectors are so damn difficult to align correctly without air bubbles that most iPhones with a screen protector look worse because of it. Sure, it may be functional, but to the untrained eye it looks like the screen isn't as bright and is poorly finished.
 
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Dryden;1675742; said:
I would actually go with the opposite. The screen protectors are so damn difficult to align correctly without air bubbles that most iPhones with a screen protector look worse because of it. Sure, it may be functional, but to the untrained eye it looks like the screen isn't as bright and is poorly finished.
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Are you saying that apple users aren't smart enough to figure out how to align and put on a screen protector? :p
 
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OCBucksFan;1676732; said:
Are you saying that apple users aren't smart enough to figure out how to align and put on a screen protector? :p
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It ain't as easy to do on an iPhone as it is on one of them old, white iPods from six or seven years ago since you have to get the cutouts on the screen protector aligned with the button and the ear-piece speaker on the face of the phone. If you're off even 1/32" at one end, it winds up being off 1/8" at the other end.
 
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