Google is going to win ...

Roll your mind forward two years. 

Google provide your email, your blog reader and calendar via your browser and your mobile. 

Google provides your wordprocessing, your spreadsheeting, and your presentation software.  They look as if they are desktop based applications but that's just smoke and mirrors - the code and the data live in "the cloud" but they look like they're local because of prism and google gears. 

Google provide your movie listings (you'll buy your tickets from them by then too), your news, and (you thought I'd forgotten) your search.  Oh, and they're taking a small but respectable percentage of say 30% of all online transactions via Google Checkout.  And, a respectable feed for say 70% of all adverts ...

Google and Apple, with their board-level ties, are also streaming movies and TV into your house.

Perhaps you've already figured all of the above out ... but it was only when I saw the prism software (which makes browser based applications look like are local) and then discovered that google documents is actually easier to use (both online and offline now) than MS Office that I decided to roll my mind forward 2 years and wonder ...

I'm glad they say that they won't do evil ...

Comments

[David C]

This isn't the half of it. Google is going to own the world's tv broadcasting infrastructure too.