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venturebeat消息:埃里克·施密特称谷歌比苹果更具开放性

发布时间:2010-09-30 10:27:08 Tags:,,

日前,谷歌首席执行官埃里克·施密特(Eric Schmidt)在接受采访时表示,相较苹果的“保守原则”,谷歌更奉行开发性、包容性的文化。

Google V.S Apple

Google V.S Apple

施密特在参加美国旧金山的TechCrunch Disrupt大会时表露了谷歌对来来市场竞争的勃勃野心,同时也不讳言对苹果的一些看法(谷歌近期常对苹果评头品足,苹果也时有回敬之语)。因为施密特离开苹果董事会仅一年多时间,所以这种现象十分耐人寻味。

但谷歌文化,尤其是Android手机操作系统更具宽容性的特点,也确实得到了其他业内权威的认可,但并非所有人都赞同这一说法。在TechCrunch Disrupt大会的提问与回答环节中,有位不留情面的观众询问施密特,谷歌何以更具开发性。

施密特答,“这个说法更容易从反向角度来理解。”所以他没有分析谷歌本身的宽容表现,而是表达了他加盟苹果期间对苹果应用模式和iOS操作系统的看法,他承认苹果功能确实很好很强大,但开发商除了苹果开发工具、苹果硬件以外,别无选择。他表示,只要与这些保守行为相反的举措,就可以视为“开放性”。

但有一点施密特还没有提到:谷歌拥有很多关于其搜索算法的关键秘密,包括它的广告价格和投放位置,它利润惊人的搜索广告专营权等基本信息。换句话说,只要不影响营收增长,谷歌就会保持开发性。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译)

Google CEO Schmidt: We’re open … at least compared to Apple

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt talked about his company’s contentious relationship with Apple this morning — specifically, he emphasized the idea that Google has a culture of openness compared to Apple’s “core strategy of closed-ness.”

Schmidt was speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, where he outlined an ambitious vision for the future of computing. But he couldn’t resist taking some jabs at Apple, something that Google has been doing more of recently. (And Apple has returned the favor.) It’s particularly interesting to hear Schmidt making these comments, since he only left Apple’s board of directors a little more than a year ago.

The idea that Google, particularly its Android mobile operating system, represents openness has been embraced by tech pundits outside Google too, but it’s not universally accepted. (See, for example, the comments to the post I just linked to.) During the question-and-answer session, one of the audience members followed up by asking what Google actually means when it says that it’s open.

“It’s easier to understand by opposition,” Schmidt said.

So instead of outlining Google’s practices, he focused on describing his take on Apple’s model for applications on its iOS mobile operating system, which he acknowledged “works extremely well.” Developers have to use Apple’s development tools, Apple’s hardware, their Apple’s, he said.

“That would not be open,” he said. “The inverse would be open.”

What Schmidt left unsaid: Google holds secret much key information about its search algorithms, its ad pricing and placement, or other fundamentals of its incredibly lucrative search-advertising franchise. In other words, Google only embraces openness when it does not pose a risk to its revenue-generating activities.

How did Schmidt put it? That would not be open.(source:venturebeat)


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