#Shake mouse pointer to locate not working magicprefs android#

The mistake is assuming that Google views this as a big problem, as if Android has been a waste of money because Google makes more money from its competitor. Google’s decision to bankroll the development of Android was just such an investment, which makes the past week’s back and forth over just how much money Google has garnered from that investment quite silly. Not all investments are made with the expectation that a big payoff is around the corner. Look beyond the dollars, he says, as if that’s a fresh and non-obvious point: Over on GigaOm, Tom Krazit spins an old argument as a new one by characterising as silly the many recent blog posts on how little money Google makes on Android, in fact much lesser than what it makes on iOS (I have made such posts myself). And it is a product that is sustained by one of the wealthiest company in the world, a company which treats you as a customer, not a product. It provides web and app APIs to services like mail, calendaring, file storage, etc. P.S: There is, of course, the option that is so obvious that it cannot be stated: iCloud.

#Shake mouse pointer to locate not working magicprefs free#

Now the response is to run away from “free as in beer” to “unfree as in champagne” options like App.net which are, if anything, less viable than free Google products that might be yanked at a moment’s notice. Consequently, concern for privacy, aesthetic experience and user requirements was set aside in favour of zero cost, the fuzzy feel of openness, and a few power user features. The sporadic (if genuine) gestures from Google to openness coupled with the “free as in beer” nature of Google products helped techies square the circle of their use of these products. Somehow, this sentimentality towards Google made it possible for techies to tolerate targeted ads displayed alongside their email, something that would have been an intolerable abomination in 1998. This is despite the fact that Google single-handedly made advertising on the Internet mainstream and respectable by purchasing DoubleClick, one of the most despised marketers on the net. Google used to give the warm fuzzies to techies because of its perceived commitment to Open Source. I suspect the reason is a version of the usual confusion between “free as in freedom” and “free as in beer” that underlies Open Source itself.

#Shake mouse pointer to locate not working magicprefs full#

So you have well-intentioned posts like this one from Whited, full of pointers to open source alternatives, and yet, three, four of seven years ago, when Whited was, as now, Google’s product and not their customer, he chose to sign up for Gmail and other Google products. For was it not obvious from day one that by signing up for Gmail, Google Calendar, so on, you were submitting yourself to be Google’s product, not a customer? When you’re paying for your social network, it makes you a customer instead of a product.Īll of the recent hand-wringing over Google, especially under this “customer vs product” meme, reminds me of Paul Krugman’s point that apparently, to be taken seriously, one has to have been wrong first. The recent Google Reader shutdown and Google Hangouts disabling XMPP federation made me realize that any of my services could go at any time and I didn’t want to be so dependant on a single provider or the integrations between services.Īmong the reasons for switching away from Google: Like many people, I recently decided to move many of my online services away from Google.

Sam Whited via Hacker News on leaving Google: