{"id":31,"date":"2010-05-21T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2020-08-07T03:28:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:28:22","slug":"wild-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/2010\/05\/21\/wild-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Engadget has a thorough&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/05\/20\/live-from-the-google-i-o-2010-day-2-keynote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">play by play<\/a>&nbsp;of the Google I\/O day 2 keynote. You should read it if you haven\u2019t already. Videos are&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GoogleDevelopers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A ton of stuff was announced: a faster, more capable Android OS with voice recognition, tethering, network data backups, and a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HfwqjGT0SiA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">super-fast browser<\/a>; as well as Google TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen Google announce or demo so many things in a single event. Meanwhile, Apple is pumping out new iPhone hardware and software annually. Were either of these platforms unchallenged, the improvements would likely be fewer and less frequent. There is very real competition going on here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple and Google are the clear frontrunners at the moment, but they\u2019re not alone. Mobile computing is still in its infancy, and there are&nbsp;<em>five<\/em>&nbsp;major players in this game:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Apple<\/li><li>Google<\/li><li>HP \/ Palm<\/li><li>Microsoft<\/li><li>RIM<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You have to go back at least 25 years to find a fracas like this. These are historic times, and they could go on indefinitely given the cash that&nbsp;each&nbsp;of these companies is sitting on. &nbsp;(RIM looks pretty bad here. They have little cash and no diversity, by comparison.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Competition is good for the consumer. With competitors like these, we should all have plenty of toys to play with for quite awhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engadget has a thorough&nbsp;play by play&nbsp;of the Google I\/O day 2 keynote. You should read it if you haven\u2019t already. Videos are&nbsp;here. A ton of stuff was announced: a faster, more capable Android OS with voice recognition, tethering, network data backups, and a&nbsp;super-fast browser; as well as Google TV. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}