Google Aint No Copycat
September 22, 2014
Google does not copy anything. Really! Eric Schmidt posted on Google Plus that Google is an innovator not a copier. Notice how he posted it on Google Plus, a social network that does not copy anything we use on a daily basis. CNet took the post and editorialized it in “Google Doesn’t Copy, Explains Eric Schmidt.”
CNet seemed a little upset that Schmidt illustrated this idea with a cartoon depicting three lemonade stands. Two stands were exact duplicates, while the third sold hard lemonade with the tagline “know your competition, but don’t copy it.” The article points out how Steve Jobs did not like how iPhone elements were “borrowed” by Google.
Google is actually perpetuating its ego that all its ideas are original and are innovative to the technology market, but looking at all tech companies one can see that they have similarities. It spells problems:
“The real danger, of course, is to claim you’re startlingly innovative. The more one examines Apple, Samsung, Facebook, Google and the whole cabal of technological power, the more one sees an occasional — and no doubt coincidental — uniformity of thought.”
Here come the lawsuits! Yahoo, Overture, and GoTo have influenced Google, just like Facebook and Amazon. The quote” there are not anymore more original ideas anymore” sounds apt.
Whitney Grace, September 22, 2014
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