Google misleads on Nexus 7 success.

Bill.Winegard wrote:
I apologize in advance, but why would this be interesting to anyone?
Marketers market. Surprise!
With all of that said, the Google platform does out sell the Apple platform every single day of the year (except when the new, must have iPhone 4, 5, 6, 7...... is released).

Your first sentence makes my point. Google is a disreputable company, that has gathered more information about each of us than, possibly, the NSA, and few seem to care.

They mislead about the big things and about the small things. When they introduced Chromecast, they announced that the OS was a stripped down ChromeOS, which had been produced for Chrome notebooks. Turns out, the OS for Chromecast is actually a modified Android TV, which has android kernel. Why would they feel the need to mislead about the Chromecast OS. Perhaps, it is just in their culture.

In Google's privacy guide, Safari users were advised that they need to do nothing to opt out of advertising cookies. "Safari is set by default to block all third-party cookies. If you have not changed those settings, this option effectively accomplishes the same thing." With that said, Google then hacked Safari, so that third-party advertising cookies could be placed on Safari users' computers. Although Google insisted that it was accidental, the FTC levied their largest fine ever; they took it to be a deliberate violation of a previous privacy settlement.


Google's Buzz debacle - in early 2010, Google introduced a feature that compiles a list of the Gmail contacts who users most frequently e-mail or chat with. Buzz automatically starts following these people and makes the list public, meaning strangers can see who Buzz users have been in contact with. Google apologized.

In May, 2010, Google admitted that it had been "mistakenly collecting samples " of user browsing data sent over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks such as e-mail, user passwords and browsing history. The piece of programming code used to grab user data was from an "experimental WiFi project," and Google says the code was inadvertently added to Google's Street View data collection software. Google apologized.

In mid January 2012, a Kenyan start up company, Mocality, learned that for months Google had attempted to undermine its business by lying to its customers and improperly mining its data. Google apologized.

And few seem to care.

Although there are more android devices sold than iOS devices, only one company, Samsung, makes any money from selling Android smartphones. All of the others report losses on their smartphone business. Google makes almost no money on the android platform - $550 million for the years 2008 through 2011, as discovered in one of the Apple-Samsung cases. In that case it was revealed that 80% of Google's mobile ad revenue comes from iOS devices.

One could go on, but it is time to travel.

Tom