I haven't been able to get into Google+. It looks pretty and I know it gets some users very excited, but I already have a presence on Facebook (a service I don't love) and nobody I know is using Google+.
Is it possible Google isn't actually competing with Facebook? That's a theory put forth by Ben Thompson, once again on his stratēchery blog today in response to a piece by Harry McCracken.
I need to give this some more thought.
I really see Facebook Home as an attack on Google. Matt Drance apparently agrees and has written a nice piece piece about it on his blog.
Facebook held their big Facebook Home event yesterday and gave everyone a look at the next step in their plans to expand in the mobile space. The product doesn’t interest me in the least, but it will interest a lot of people who value the role of Facebook in their lives more than I do. Facebook home will also look and feel better than most any user facing interface on Android.
Dan Frommer writes a very smart post about the market and prospects for Facebook Home. I agree with much of what he writes and think the near future is going to be very interesting for Google and Android users.
Hat tip to Daring Fireball
MG Siegler writing for TechCrunch about why Samsung deserves to mentioned along side Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google.
But trying to suggest that Samsung is not one of the most important companies in technology is increasingly folly. In fact, there’s a decent chance that it will end up being the most important tech company of 2013.