majorlazer

Well maybe if Symbian wasn't a total piece of shit they wouldn't be shutting it down. Seriously, I owned an N97 for a while and that was the flagship product of Nokia for sometime, the OS is complete shit. Hardware was awesome but the OS was almost as bad as the old Windows Mobile OS.

Heh, nothing wrong with a bit of debate, as long as it doesn't end in flame wars. Halfway through writing my above post I stopped and thought, is this really worth it? Will I prove anything with this post? And I decided to finish my thoughts because I really was interested in what you have to say in response to my "arguments". Anyways, thanks for not resorting to childish arguments and put-downs like on other sites.

Your first point about Google aggregating results from other search engines, please provide a source.

You've met two or three people with Android phones? You must not get out very much because Android passed the iPhone in total monthly activations a while back and just passed them in total phones on the market.

Buying YouTube and slapping ads on it? That was inevitable, whether or not Google bought them, there comes a time in every websites life when it needs to be monetized to it's fullest potential.

As for the whole wi-fi/china/privacy ordeal, you really know how to sensationalize a story. You happen to post on Reddit?

I wasn't commenting on your comparison of Google and Apple, I agree that they are very different companies. But when you say Google isn't innovative, that is not true. Sure, most of their ideas are improving on other companies ideas but that doesn't make it any less innovative. Do you know why so many people are starting to use Chrome? Because it is a fucking perfected browser. The changes Google made were very minimal, but now every browser company is following suit. Going by your logic, no company is innovative because they all just improve upon one another's ideas. Think back to when Gmail was just released. The major competitors were Hotmail and Yahoo. Do you remember their offering? 25mb of space, fucking horrible layout, slow as shit, email search was non existent, and the spam... Oh the wonderful spam.

Sure, Google might be currently receiving a huge chunk of their income from advertising. But with the market control that Google currently has, they can offer any product/service and people will hand over their cash no questions asked. Google has established itself as a trustworthy company that provides amazing products for cheap/free. You mention that every company is selling something except Google. Is Facebook selling anything? Weren't they just valued at $50 billion? Their stock is going public next year? Hmmm... So much for needing a product to sell. Sure, I think valuing Facebook at $50 billion is retarded as fuck but the fact of the matter is, in todays day, information is worth more than any other commodity. And Google has a shit ton of information.

Android is the biggest cellphone OS on the market. Chrome is the best browser and it is growing at an extremely fast pace. ChromeOS is well on it's way (it won't compete with the MSFT or AAPL but it has it's niche). Gmail is the best free mail service available (and it definitely was revolutionary, think back to when it was just released). Google AdSense changed the way people monetize on the internet. Google Search was the biggest revolution in the history of the internet. Google Maps/Earth was also a huge revolution and is used by so many different services and software on the internet and on cellphones. Google Documents? Google Voice? Please, Google owns the internet.

Sure, Google may not have any hardware revolutions such as Apple, but when it comes to the internet, Google creates and makes possible the most innovative ideas.