Is Google the new Apple?

[skratch77]

At the rate Google is growing as a company it will be worth more then apple in less then a year.last year at this time googles market cap was just under 200 billion and is now over 300 billion and that is also blowing 14 billion on buying moto for there patents and moto was basically bankrupt when they bought it.

I say this time next year googles market cap hits 410 billion with its sales of the 1500 dollar Google glass devices.

Apple makes its killer profits for charging ridiculous pricing on extras like ram and sad drives a 64gb iPhone is like 900 bucks and its like 2 bucks more for apple to add the extra memory and kill it in profit margins.

Google is grinding and slowly making its money without raping its users in extras and will finally cash in the hardware $ when it goes full blast on its hardware and fiber services.

Even the new music service will bring them huge margins as they own 75% of the market so if just 10% of that 900000000 android phones pay that 10 bucks a month you will see huge gains in Google and its stock price

 

[appletoandroid]

At the rate Google is growing as a company it will be worth more then apple in less then a year.last year at this time googles market cap was just under 200 billion and is now over 300 billion and that is also blowing 14 billion on buying moto for there patents and moto was basically bankrupt when they bought it.

I say this time next year googles market cap hits 410 billion with its sales of the 1500 dollar Google glass devices.

Apple makes its killer profits for charging ridiculous pricing on extras like ram and sad drives a 64gb iPhone is like 900 bucks and its like 2 bucks more for apple to add the extra memory and kill it in profit margins.

Google is grinding and slowly making its money without raping its users in extras and will finally cash in the hardware $ when it goes full blast on its hardware and fiber services.

Even the new music service will bring them huge margins as they own 75% of the market so if just 10% of that 900000000 android phones pay that 10 bucks a month you will see huge gains in Google and its stock price

Absolutely it's the end of the road for Apple. Glass will likely be the nail in the coffin.

Google is like the people's company, where as Apple is the selfish, stubborn bully in tech. People are noticing and they're all moving away to Google products.

 

[JustJeff]

Absolutely it's the end of the road for Apple. Glass will likely be the nail in the coffin.

Google is like the people's company, where as Apple is the selfish, stubborn bully in tech. People are noticing and they're all moving away to Google products.

Better sell the MacBook Air then before its worthless lol.

 

[DoctorWho]

Absolutely it's the end of the road for Apple. Glass will likely be the nail in the coffin.

Google is like the people's company, where as Apple is the selfish, stubborn bully in tech. People are noticing and they're all moving away to Google products.

Sadly, it does feel like that.

To me, it's almost like Apple VS IBM/Apple VS Microsoft all over again; except this time, Apple is becoming the 'Big Brother' figure.

As someone who worked in an Apple Retail Store before and after the controversial 'John Browett era', I feel that some things at Apple are changing for the worst, and some things aren't changing fast enough.

 

[cnev3]

At the rate Google is growing as a company it will be worth more then apple in less then a year.last year at this time googles market cap was just under 200 billion and is now over 300 billion and that is also blowing 14 billion on buying moto for there patents and moto was basically bankrupt when they bought it.

I say this time next year googles market cap hits 410 billion with its sales of the 1500 dollar Google glass devices.

Apple makes its killer profits for charging ridiculous pricing on extras like ram and sad drives a 64gb iPhone is like 900 bucks and its like 2 bucks more for apple to add the extra memory and kill it in profit margins.

Google is grinding and slowly making its money without raping its users in extras and will finally cash in the hardware $ when it goes full blast on its hardware and fiber services.

Even the new music service will bring them huge margins as they own 75% of the market so if just 10% of that 900000000 android phones pay that 10 bucks a month you will see huge gains in Google and its stock price

Who paid $900 for an iPhone? I got my iPhone 5 for $99 with 2 year agreement. $100 less than if I chose the S4 or HTC One.

Also, at the time the current gen Macbook Air models were released, there were no PC ultrabooks that had better specs for a lower price. It was actually competitively priced.

I don't care about stock prices much, but I still dont see a desktop, tablet, laptop, or cell phone from Google that I really want.

Google has a nice search engine and free email, aside from that, not much yet. Google+, Chrome OS, and Chromebooks are underwhelming.

 

[skratch77]

Who paid $900 for an iPhone? I got my iPhone 5 for $99 with 2 year agreement. $100 less than if I chose the S4 or HTC One.

Also, at the time the current gen Macbook Air models were released, there were no PC ultrabooks that had better specs for a lower price. It was actually competitively priced.

I don't care about stock prices much, but I still dont see a desktop, tablet, laptop, or cell phone from Google that I really want.

Google has a nice search engine and free email, aside from that, not much yet. Google+, Chrome OS, and Chromebooks are underwhelming.

You paid a subsidised price and apple gets its full retail price for the phone.ever wonder why you pay tax for the whole retail price? And a 64 GB iPhone 5 is 400 with a 2 year contract and 900 full retail.

And don't even go there in the computer department as you can spec the same exact hardware and the apple one will always be around 1200-1500 more

You can build a Mac book pro now and bring the total to 3600 with options and you font even get a darn bluray experience.

 

[cynics]

Who paid $900 for an iPhone? I got my iPhone 5 for $99 with 2 year agreement. $100 less than if I chose the S4 or HTC One.

Also, at the time the current gen Macbook Air models were released, there were no PC ultrabooks that had better specs for a lower price. It was actually competitively priced.

I don't care about stock prices much, but I still dont see a desktop, tablet, laptop, or cell phone from Google that I really want.

Google has a nice search engine and free email, aside from that, not much yet. Google+, Chrome OS, and Chromebooks are underwhelming.

Whether you paid for it or your carrier does the 64 gb iPhone 5 is 849.00. A carrier might get a discount from buying in bulk but its not much. If you wanted to buy the phone not on a contract, 849.00.

 

[0dev]

Microsoft is the new apple

They wish. Apple places emphasis on ease of use and good design, you think they'd ever come out with that cluster**** of an OS Windows 8?

As far as Apple and Google go, I echo the comments saying they can co-exist by focusing on different markets as their main area but continuing to expand. Google is putting out a lot of stuff right now but we're expecting Apple to catch up shortly. Let's see what Apple's next move is.

 

[Switchback666]

They wish. Apple places emphasis on ease of use and good design, you think they'd ever come out with that cluster**** of an OS Windows 8?

Windows 8 ? Puff its probably the best OS around and kicks OSX nuts all day.

 

[0dev]

Windows 8 ? Puff its probably the best OS around and kicks OSX nuts all day.

Nice trolling.

Windows 8 is the most unintuitive piece of crap I've ever seen. It makes Unity look good.

 

[tensiondeadache]

I'll say this....used to be a huge Apple fanboy, Apple everything.

Its been six months since I've come to MacRumors and visited a section other than "Alternatives to iOS"

The only Apple products I have now are Apple TV and a 2011 MBP. I would love to just sell the MBP to Gazelle for $400 and move on with life on my Chromebook, but I have some expensive software I can only use on the MBP so I'm keeping it.

Apple simply is not moving at the speed of innovation, Google is.