My New Year’s resolution for TiPb is to be nicer to Google in 2011. Last year was an amazing year for the world’s largest, most powerful internet company. Thanks to relentless software improvement, Verizon’s Droid marketing, and top-of-the-line hardware like the Galaxy S, Google’s Android OS became the fastest accelerating platform in the mobile space. They also unleashed improvements to Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs, YouTube, and so many other already excellent services at a speed and quality level that, frankly, no other company could have matched.
But it was a tough year as well. They were hurt by their handling of China, by the privacy-shredding launch of Buzz and the aborted Wave. They raised privacy and legal concerns by collecting Wi-Fi data, and they left a segment of their userbase feeling betrayed by throwing in with the devil Verizon and abandoning key parts of their previously staunch net neutrality support, […]
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