Matthew Panzarino:
Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google announced that it had hit 48B downloads of apps on the Google Play Store. During the same keynote, the counter on Apple’s site ticked over to 50B App Store downloads.
But there has been some question about how exactly the two companies tabulate their numbers.
Turns out, that Apple and Google count them in a very similar fashion. Here’s Panzarino again:
Reuters:
Dell, the subject of a takeover battle between the activist investor Carl Icahn and the company’s billionaire founder, reported a 79 percent slide in profit as personal computer sales continued to shrink.
“We just don’t want to screw it up.”
Handsome.
Google’s Larry Page, quoted on The Verge:
I’ve personally been quite sad at the industry’s behavior around all these things. If you take something as simple as IM, we’ve had an open offer to interoperate forever. Just this week Microsoft took advantage of that by interoperating with us. You can’t have people milking off of just one company.
Matt Landis, via @marcoarment:
But just days after Microsoft announces that www.outlook.com will integrate to Google’s IM/P solution via Google talk’s XMPP protocol, Google notes its that its new effort at a unified messaging solution (Hangouts which will replace existing Google Talk) will effectively cut off interoperability via XMPP.
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Impressive, and quite funny that it landed on the day of Google’s keynote.
The problem with three hour keynotes is that there’s so much news, it’s impossible to tell what the company wants people to focus on.
During its 17 three hour keynote today, Google announced a ton of stuff, but the new Hangouts is the most interesting one to me. Since Myke and others have left the Internet, iOS, iMessages hasn’t been as helpful to me as it once was.
The Verge has hailed the new apps as “big fix for Google’s messaging mess”, but here on Day One, that just really isn’t that true.
The iOS app is buggy. URLs aren’t always clickable, and I’ve had it crash a couple of times already. It is, however, much faster than Facebook’s Messenger app.
I’m using Facebook Messenger now to keep in touch with people outside the iMessage universe. I think this will be our new solution.
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