Comments on: Eric Schmidt: ‘I screwed up’ Google’s social strategy http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/eric-schmidt-i-screwed-up-googles-social-strategy/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Tue, 21 May 2013 08:48:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: ioman http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/eric-schmidt-i-screwed-up-googles-social-strategy/#comment-385065 ioman Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:31:00 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=297713#comment-385065 I do think Google considers Facebook and Apple competitors. Right now they are playing as friends to the media, but we all know that behind the scenes, they are planning their attack on each other.

]]> By: Daniel Cavalheiro http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/eric-schmidt-i-screwed-up-googles-social-strategy/#comment-385040 Daniel Cavalheiro Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:44:09 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=297713#comment-385040 So, you really think Google is not directly competing with Apple? Even after they created the (almost) sole competitor to the iOS, and apple created their publicity (remembering that GOOG is primarily a publicity company)? Even Steve Jobs said it's war now, "we did not enter the search business, they entered phone business" [or something on those lines..].

Also with facebook, do you think that GOOG wants to play nice with FB? No, you just read the article, they wanna compete directly against facebook dominance.

And even amazon put an App market in the android ecosystem directly competing with googles app store, albeit I would not reject some form of compromise between these two companies.

Microsoft only competes with google on the phone side, and it's a landslide, WP7 has no major significance, beyond their live games, lol. Only now is google starting to compete with it in the netbook segment, which is already in itself being consumed by the tablet segment.

I believe the reason that he excluded M$ is that it's a sluggish giant and they have no worries of surprises coming from them. Well, let's see how win8 plays out and hope that competition gets more and more fierce!

]]> By: ioman http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/eric-schmidt-i-screwed-up-googles-social-strategy/#comment-384654 ioman Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:32:15 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=297713#comment-384654 This "Gang of four" crap is really dumb. They are trying to create (if they haven't already) a good ole' boys group to dominate the rest. Of course each one of the companies Eric mentioned do not directly compete with each other (which is why Microsoft was not included), but I think, and hope Eric will find Mark Zuckerberg doesn't play by his rules.

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