{"id":98,"date":"2010-05-20T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2020-08-07T03:28:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:28:27","slug":"google-rewrites-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/2010\/05\/20\/google-rewrites-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Rewrites History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Daring Fireball\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2010\/05\/20\/headline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headline of the day<\/a>\u00a0is a bold quote from Google\u2019s VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>If we did not act, we faced a draconian future. Where one man, one company, one carrier was the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Good old competitive potshots are fair game, but this one is particularly offensive when one recalls Google\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/aug2005\/tc20050817_0949_tc024.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquired Android in August of 2005<\/a>. That\u2019s nearly 18 months before the world even knew about iPhone, let alone its carrier model or prospects for success. And it\u2019s nearly a full three years before the App Store went live on July 11, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google is a publicly traded corporation that controls the flow of more and more information every day. It\u2019s very troubling to watch them rewrite history in such a self-serving manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daring Fireball\u2019s\u00a0headline of the day\u00a0is a bold quote from Google\u2019s VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra: If we did not act, we faced a draconian future. Where one man, one company, one carrier was the future. Good old competitive potshots are fair game, but this one is particularly offensive when one recalls Google\u00a0acquired Android in August [&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\/98"}],"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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}