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Wishful Thinking: Google/Apple World

Posted in Apple, Blogroll, Gmail, Gmail Chat, Google, Google Vision, Googleness, Gtalk, Steve Jobs by Hakim Bennis on 2006-10-18

Google/AppleThis is just great news! Apple and Google combining their brightest minds and setting a future course of fearless innovation is just what the world needs now.
Some of what I’d like to see from Google/Apple is:

1) .Mac fully being transmogrified into Google services. (Yes, that would imply the things like application sync, photocasting, web-publishing, etc, being available for Windows and Linux as well, I don’t see any reason why not.) The rumored GDisk would be the logical next step to seamlessly knit this together.
2) iTunes and Google Video somehow collaborating. Letting people sell their movies, videos, (music), etc through the iTunes store front with Google serving as the back end, and vice versa. Hollywood is already crumbling, and the distribution of the content is their last strong-hold on the industry. And with Google’s massive bandwidth and storage capacities, HD movies would not be impossible any more, would they? Hello iTV. What was that huge data-center I heard of up north going to be used for anyway?
3) iChat and Gtalk interoperate. Video and audio conferencing cross-platform. Jabber is nice, but not much more than text. (Oh yes, Gtalk for Linux, please. You got to feed those hungry Ubuntuans.) 4) Please, please let us sync Address Book and iCal with Gmail and Gcal! (See number 1.)
5) Geo-tagging photos in iPhoto via Google Earth or Google maps (…)
6) Perhaps OT, but it would be great to have Gcal, Gmail but especially Writely and Spreadsheet work as offline apps so we can use them while not on the Internet. Make everything we write save to a buffer on the hard-drive, to be synced next time we connect the computer.
7) Definitely OT, but it would be great if you could add a queue in Gmail to “send this mail on this date and this time”.
Again, best of luck to my two favorite companies!

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  1. /pd said, on 2006-10-18 at 10:45 pm

    nice post !!

    BTW..how art thou ?? :) -

  2. Hakim Bennis said, on 2006-10-18 at 11:34 pm

    Thanks Peter =)

    I’m doing good, been busy for work lately, gotta play catch up!!
    The Internet is moving wayyy to faast…


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