Google Play

Looks like their much talked about store front for online media.

https://play.google.com/about/

Or just Android Market with a new name and logo

  On 3/27/2012 at 3:46 PM, mcbpete said:

Or just Android Market with a new name and logo

yup

Seems to focus a lot on Google+ and sharing of media for promotional purposes. Do they even sell apps for Chrome? I've no time to go in depth until after work.

  On 3/27/2012 at 3:46 PM, mcbpete said:

Or just Android Market with a new name and logo

  On 3/27/2012 at 3:52 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Seems to focus a lot on Google+ and sharing of media for promotional purposes. Do they even sell apps for Chrome? I've no time to go in depth until after work.

You can buy apps and games for chrome. G+ is becoming scarily integrated with the rest of Google. I read an interesting article recently discussing the authors reasoning of "Why Google will fail". He said they have basically gotten too big for their britches, and are now trying to become a "one stop shop" online, much like Facebook, or AOL. What it boils down to is the fact that your personal information is very valuable (duh), and they want to turn a profit of of it.

http://lifehacker.co...google-goes-bad

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This is a story about the web, AOL, Google, Google+, and why too many eggs always end up in too few mediocre baskets. The short version: Eventually everyone wants to be AOL.

The medium version goes like this: The AOL of the 90s is a universally recognized symbol for what the internet should not be, and how the web will always be better and more innovative than what one company can provide. AOL's demise came at the hands of the open web and search engines like Google, which made it easy to find content without the heavy hand of one company's portal. Now, after 13 years of growth, the Google portal looks nearly as much like AOL as it does the search engine that helped displace AOL—and that's a bad thing.

  On 3/27/2012 at 4:10 PM, hautlle said:

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This is a story about the web, AOL, Google, Google+, and why too many eggs always end up in too few mediocre baskets. The short version: Eventually everyone wants to be AOL.

The medium version goes like this: The AOL of the 90s is a universally recognized symbol for what the internet should not be, and how the web will always be better and more innovative than what one company can provide. AOL's demise came at the hands of the open web and search engines like Google, which made it easy to find content without the heavy hand of one company's portal. Now, after 13 years of growth, the Google portal looks nearly as much like AOL as it does the search engine that helped displace AOL—and that's a bad thing.

Gawdamn, that's a terrifying statement. Not one I wholly believe yet, but the evidence is pretty clear. Thankfully I think that enough internet users are now savvy enough to know when they're being penned-in.

  On 3/27/2012 at 4:23 PM, Gary C said:

 

Gawdamn, that's a terrifying statement. Not one I wholly believe yet, but the evidence is pretty clear. Thankfully I think that enough internet users are now savvy enough to know when they're being penned-in.

But how many of them actually care/will bother to do anything about it?

Don't worry, I'm making a search engine that will bring Google down.

imo google has no choice but to branch out with Google+ etc because facebook will try to continue expanding their services. All the big companies have to do the same thing.