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Expect lots of Apple/Google collaboration
I've got to say I loooove Google. My Gmail account is great, as is Google Reader, Picasa* and my Picasa web albums, Gcal and so on. To those who have complained that Google ignores Mac users, we say that's about to change. Google chief executive Eric Schmidt stated on Monday that the two companies will be "..."doing more and more things together. We have similar goals, similar competitors."
So the Google maps features of the iPhone are only the beginning? Sweet.
*Ok, so technically Picasa is running on my Linux box. Do I lose Mac cred?
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mds said 8:31AM on 3-06-2007
When can we except a Mac version of Picasa?
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markmac said 8:45AM on 3-06-2007
I don't think we'll ever see a mac version of Picasa.
Steve letting google maps on iPhone = beginning of collaboration = don't touch our killer apps ... (ie: iPhoto ...)
Just a thought ...
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Alfresco said 9:01AM on 3-06-2007
gtalk please!!
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DrWho said 9:07AM on 3-06-2007
I like picasa - it's a great program - but I'd always use iPhoto by preference
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Jonathan Allen said 9:17AM on 3-06-2007
There has been a Picasa web uploader for mac for months now!
http://picasa.google.com/web/mac_tools.html
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John said 9:18AM on 3-06-2007
I don't think there will ever be a mac version of picasa. On the mac we have got iphoto which can also connect to picasa web albums (where Google hopes to get its revenue from). When iphoto 07 comes out it should be better then picasa anyway.
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Steve said 9:21AM on 3-06-2007
Get Gmail working correctly in Safari!
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markmac said 9:27AM on 3-06-2007
good point Alfresco, but gtalk came out way before their partnership started to bloom publically ...
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drphred said 9:54AM on 3-06-2007
I have picasa running on my macbook pro using crossover. It works great and it's very fast.
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Kendal said 9:55AM on 3-06-2007
#3 Alfresco has it right! GTALK FOR MAC, PLEASE!
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jrobcet said 10:19AM on 3-06-2007
I sure hope they fix the problems with Google Reader and Safari. It is painfully slow and buggy.
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Alfresco said 10:23AM on 3-06-2007
Well I've got Gtalk set up via iChat right now (I had to get an AIM account so that I could use iChat to use Gtalk.... go figure)
Thats a lot of hassle which having a stand alone Gtalk client could save!
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scralpha said 10:30AM on 3-06-2007
gTalk works on iChat using Jabber:
http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24076
No need for AIM.
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kansir said 10:57AM on 3-06-2007
How about Apple moves .Mac to use Google's service. I am .Mac user before. When i find Google provides most of the service for free, i don't renew anymore.
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Jay Lyerly said 11:28AM on 3-06-2007
The Leopard preview pages indicate that the new iChat will allow you to login in to multiple services. (Right now you can only do one at a time.) Since iChat can already talk to gTalk, it'd be interesting to see if Apple provides gTalk as one of the options in the account setup wizard for the new iChat.
With .Mac flakiness of late, I have discovered gMail and its quite alluring compared to .Mac. They cover a lot of the same space -- gMail (no SPAM!), picassa web albums (with iPhoto plugin), bookmark syncing. .Mac still provides iDisk and general syncing, but Google is catching up fast. Google Docs and Spreadsheets is pretty nice too, but I have to use firefox instead of Safari. Turns out, its not so bad.
More collaboration from Google and Apple has me salivating.
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Peter said 1:41PM on 3-06-2007
A while back I emailed VP Vint Cerf at Google (I know him since he lectured to my college class I taught) and he has said that Google has had a group working on a Picassa version for the Mac.
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JeffDM said 2:20PM on 3-06-2007
I don't remember ever having trouble with gmail when I use Safari.
When iphoto 07 comes out it should be better then picasa anyway.
It will probably be better than Picasa 2.0, but who's to say that Picasa 3.0 isn't coming out soon too?
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Skronk said 3:09PM on 3-06-2007
Actually you lose Mac cred by simply having a Linux box in the first place! Infidel! :)
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JumBoBoB said 4:13PM on 3-06-2007
I'd love to see Google creating Apps for Mac, but I hope they do it aside from Apple collaboration. Picasa is so much better than iPhoto. .Mac is poo. iChat isn't great (I use Adium). I use Firefox instead of Safari. It seems like I've replaced everything in Apple with third party apps. On a daily basis the only Apple app I use is... well, nothing. I don't use any Apple made apps on a daily basis at all. I've even replaced the Finder and Spotlight with Quicksilver.
So bring it on Google! You can only make Mac life better!
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mayo said 6:39PM on 3-06-2007
@15 : you can do multiple services with the current iChat too, you'll just have multiple buddy lists open, instead of one that's combined together.
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