According to Walter Isaacson, the author of the "Steve Jobs" biography, Google has unseated Apple as the most innovative company in the world right now.
Speaking to CNBC, Isaacson says Google buying Nest Labs was a much bigger deal than Apple beginning to sell iPhones through China Mobile. Of course, the Apple deal will be great for the company's bottom line, he acknowledged, but the ... [ read the full article ]
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Google buys out the competition so it doesn't have to sit there and sue the heck out it's competition because it wants to sue them for patent violations.
I much prefer reading about Google putting its resources to acquiring companies it will perhaps dissolve but still utilise rather than reading about Apple filing yet another lawsuit.
And well done to Walter for catching up! It is 2014 and Google has been on top of the innovation pile for a long time now; I'm not sure people realise how big Google actually is.
First of all, I'm a web developer, and from the web development point of view one only needs to work with google maps javascript appi to realize how innovative they are, there is no single point of compairison. And I develop on a mac, so I really know each one of them, Apple has some good products, but google, maps, mail, search, android,recaptcha I mean they really are the best in the business no doubt about it.
Ehhh.....Nest products are a waste. Only a moron like Fadell would set out on a mission to buy a thermostat for his home, only to get disappointed at what's out there and then invent something with so many features that most won't make use of.
Originally posted by hearme0: Ehhh.....Nest products are a waste. Only a moron like Fadell would set out on a mission to buy a thermostat for his home, only to get disappointed at what's out there and then invent something with so many features that most won't make use of.
I don't know. It seems that home integration is going to happen, like it or not. There is a huge untapped market, and nobody yet has the products to bring to the masses. But it's coming, you can believe that, either with Nest or some other innovative company...
