Google I/O: Snap Judgement

Apple: “We will sell you [AMAZING iTHING] which you can use to do X, Y and Z.”

Google: “We have [AMAZING GOOGLE SERVICE] which will let us do X, Y and Z for you.”

Thing is, to me, the problem of using all these services which are COMPLETELY FREE!!!!!11!!!!!11! as long as you push all your data through Google is oddly reminiscent of the guy who will give you a free bottle of wine every day for the rest of your life…so long as he can just pass it over his kidneys first.

More than ever, Google – and Facebook – are building their future around your willingness to let them hold all your personal information and social interactions.  The first company that can figure out a way to do this without actually keeping hold of your data – or providing sure and secure anonymizing and expiration of your data – has a real chance to get some traction in the marketplace.

But I say “real chance” because right now, so far as we can tell, Ed Earl Brown doesn’t really give a shit about privacy issues in Google/Facebook.  It’s going to take a major broad-based fuck-up, of the sort that gets coverage on the Today Show, for him and his to start to take this sort of thing seriously. 

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