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Google offers public commitment to the Mac
Google on Monday went public with its commitment to Apple Computer's Mac platform, launching a new Mac Blog which pinpoints some of the efforts that are underway and targeted at users of the Mac OS X operating system."Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," the company said. "We're pretty serious about that mission, including the 'universally accessible' part. It means making products that everyone can use -- including Mac users."
Google said its goal is to provide "great products and services" to the tens of millions of Mac users around the world, because "it's the right thing to do," and because Mac users "inside and outside Google demand it."
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company says it has recruited some of "the best, most passionate Mac people out there" for its Mac Engineering team. Already it has deployed Dashboard widgets that allow Mac users to check their Gmail, post to their blogs, and view search histories.
"In addition to these, you might have noticed some other Mac goodness showing up in Google products such as Safari support for Google Calendar , full Mac support for Google Video, and the Mac version of Google Earth," the company added.
Also Monday, Google announced that has agreed to acquire video file-sharing site YouTube in a $1.65 billion stock-for-stock transaction aimed at generating new ad revenue opportunities and bolstering its existing Google Video service.
In September, Newsweek reported that Apple and Google had been in discussion about making files from Google Video easily accessible on Apple's upcoming $299 iTV set-top-box. The two companies also appear to be working on integrating Google Maps into Apple's iPhoto.
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Beautiful. Just Beautiful. Love Google. Love Apple. I just wish Google had said Apple and Linux. Oh wells for now. In time Linux will grow hopefully. As for the iTV....Going to wait for reviews then maybe purchase one.
that's great! hope they come up with a better gdisk app 
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Originally Posted by w1n78
that's great! hope they come up with a better gdisk app
that's great! hope they come up with a better gdisk app
Considering it violates the GMail ToS, I strongly doubt it.
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Originally Posted by Caribou Killa
I just wish Google had said Apple and Linux. Oh wells for now. In time Linux will grow hopefully.
I just wish Google had said Apple and Linux. Oh wells for now. In time Linux will grow hopefully.
How easy is it to support a commercial product on Linux? I haven't made a program for it in a while, but supporting several distributions would seem to still be a headache because each one is a little different from version to version and between distributions. I just can't imagine Linux users being happy if their particular distribution isn't supported.
What is it about Safari that so many sites don't work right...??
Gmail on Safari can't do styled text or chat.
Google Spreadsheet doesn't fully work on Safari.
Google Notebook is crippled on Safari.
Writely does not work at all with Safari (even though the FAQ says it is supported)
Sounds more like Macs don't support Google, rather than Google not supporting Macs...
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Originally Posted by Timmmy
Sounds more like Macs don't support Google, rather than Google not supporting Macs...
Sounds more like Macs don't support Google, rather than Google not supporting Macs...
"Macs"? There's several browser for "Macs" that work just fine.
Yes, WebKit, Safari's engine, is somewhat lagging behind in some areas, but often, it's also faulty or engine-specific programming by the website developers that's to blame.
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Originally Posted by Chucker
"Macs"? There's several browser for "Macs" that work just fine.
Yes, WebKit, Safari's engine, is somewhat lagging behind in some areas, but often, it's also faulty or engine-specific programming by the website developers that's to blame.
"Macs"? There's several browser for "Macs" that work just fine.
Yes, WebKit, Safari's engine, is somewhat lagging behind in some areas, but often, it's also faulty or engine-specific programming by the website developers that's to blame.
As far as I'm concerned, if a site doesn't work on Safari, then it doesn't work on the Mac...
Safari is the default browser out of the box.
My mom isn't going to be able to switch browsers just to access a specific site...
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Originally Posted by Timmmy
As far as I'm concerned, if a site doesn't work on Safari, then it doesn't work on the Mac...
Safari is the default browser out of the box.
My mom isn't going to be able to switch browsers just to access a specific site...
As far as I'm concerned, if a site doesn't work on Safari, then it doesn't work on the Mac...
Safari is the default browser out of the box.
My mom isn't going to be able to switch browsers just to access a specific site...
Often with most AJAX-y sites though, it just works in Firefox, so by your definition, than it's Linux-only I guess?
The problem with Firefox is that it's not a real Mac app. It doesn't integrate with the OS features that contribute to the Macs ease of use. I use Services extensively when I am browsing, and I also need access to my Keychains for auto-fill as well as needing spell-check. Sure you can replicate some of those features with FF extensions, but they still don't integrate with the OS. Even Camino doesn't have spell-checking and it's Keychain support is based on an older keychain API which limits its abilities.
There is no '4 star' Mac browser!!
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I like it. I'm excited to test out this Picasa integrated with iPhoto thing. My family hasn't liked my approach of hosting the pictures on my own computer (it's a MBP, so I don't have it connected all the time) even though I think that Wipha is the coolest photo sharing script ever. I recommend checking it out, if you have a Mac you can use as a server (really any desktop Mac could easily be connected enough for a family photo sharing server.