QOTD: So You’re Open-Sourcing Your Search Algorithm, Then?
“We don’t have a plan to beat Apple, that’s not how we operate. We’re trying to do something different than Apple and the good news is that Apple is making that very easy. The difference between the Apple model and the Google model is easy to understand–they’re completely different. The Google model is completely open. You can basically take the software–it’s free–you can modify whatever you want, you can add any kind of app, you can build any kind of business model on top of it and you can add any kind of hardware. The Apple model is the inverse.”
