iMac user Sergey Brin “always admired Apple’s products”, I call BS

By Christian Zibreg on Apr 18, 2012

A recent newspaper interview has caused quite a stir when the blogosphere lit up yesterday with controversial observations from the mouth of Google co-founder Sergey Brin. In a nutshell, Brin painted Apple and Facebook as major threats to Internet freedom because neither company’s been open enough, at least in the search giant’s view.

This from a guy whose company’s been seriously lacking openness in many competitive categories. Naturally, a backlash ensued, prompting the engineer to set the record straight and clarify what he called “distorted secondary coverage”.

No, he did not mean what he said and yes, in case you were wondering, he is loving his iMac. I call BS on this one, here’s why… Read More

 

Google’s Brin says Apple is “balkanizing the web”

By Christian Zibreg on Apr 16, 2012

Unless I and pretty much every other journalist out there extrapolated the original report, it appears that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has called out Apple and Facebook for running closed platforms that, in his mind, are “balkanizing the web”.

Why? Because apps, media and other content served within these ecosystems is not crawlable by the almighty Google search engine. And even though Google’s built an empire on other people’s content, Google’s co-founder calls the latest trends “scary”.

Don’t laugh, Brin actually realized a pattern his role model Steve Jobs laid out two years ago… Read More