Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution [Kindle Edition] Author: Fred Vogelstein | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BIV1R98 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google—and how it’s reshaping the way we think about technology
The rise of smartphones and tablets has altered the business of making computers. At the center of this change are Apple and Google, two companies whose philosophies, leaders, and commercial acumen have steamrolled the competition. In the age of Android and the iPad, these corporations are locked in a feud that will play out not just in the marketplace but in the courts and on screens around the world.
Fred Vogelstein has reported on this rivalry for more than a decade and has rare access to its major players. In Dogfight, he takes us into the offices and board rooms where company dogma translates into ruthless business; behind outsize personalities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s now-lionized CEO, and Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman; and inside the deals, lawsuits, and allegations that mold the way we communicate. Apple and Google are poaching each other’s employees. They bid up the price of each other’s acquisitions for spite, and they forge alliances with major players like Facebook and Microsoft in pursuit of market dominance.
Dogfight reads like a novel: vivid nonfiction with never-before-heard details. This is more than a story about what devices will replace our phones and laptops. It’s about who will control the content on those devices and where that content will come from—about the future of media in Silicon Valley, New York, and Hollywood.
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- File Size: 1120 KB
- Print Length: 273 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0374109206
- Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books (November 12, 2013)
- Sold by: Macmillan
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BIV1R98
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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The most complete take on the Android and iOS battle I've read so far. For the majority of the book it presents information through stories from people inside both Apple and Google. The narrative suffers when the author decides to present his own analysis. The analysis can yank you out of the interesting accounts and excellent reporting that preceded the random opinions of the author. The opinions did sway both directions , so I feel the books overall objectivity remains fair and balanced.
Interesting take on the true importance of iOS and Android in terms of convergence of media for the last couple chapters, but felt drawn out and full of conjecture. A good read if you want an overview of the origins of iOS and Android, and the disruptive force of smartphones and tablets on the tech and media industry.
Nitpicking:
The nerd in me got a little angry when he described Android's ability to run Adobes Flash Runtime as a key advantage for Android, when this feature would destroy battery life, and crash so often. So much so that eventually Android stopped supporting it for the same reason Apple never allowed it to run on iOS in the first place.
Also not enough importance is given to the fact that iOS was built as a touch screen operating system first, while Android had touchscreen functionality tacked on top of an operating system intended to be used with a physical keyboard. And how this translated to better touch performance for iOS.
Market share is focused on a little too much in this book. While the war between Apple and Microsoft in the battle of personal computing was often measured by this statistic, I feel that it paints an incomplete picture of the smartphone and tablet dominance.
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