A Possible Tomorrow? Apple + Google = Apoogle
Google CEO Eric Schmidt sits on Apple’s board of directors. Steve Jobs recently announced a mild partnership with Google regarding the iPhone. It’s very possible that two companies could be considering a merger as it would strategically poise them to take advantage of the best each company has to offer. In this hypothetical scenario, we look at 10 cool things that could result from an Apple/Google merger. All of this technology already exists, but if Apple and Google were to present it as a unified package, the world would be a better place.
10. Realtime GPS for cell phones.

By combining Goggle maps technology with mobile devices, every iPhone would instantly become a GPS unit. If you lost your cellphone, you could just call it and pinpoint the location a GMap! Did you go camping and fall off a cliff? Let your cell phone track your every move, then if you get injured just send a panic signal and anyone could go online and follow a digital “bread crumb trail” right to you.
9. gPhoto

An integrated desktop/web based picture databasing/editing application. Using similar technology as Apple’s current iWeb accounts, gPhoto would index photos for sharing on the web (ala FlickR) and would allow you to edit them (ala iPhoto) online!
8. Online Storage
Apple is already there with iWeb and .Mac accounts. Google has gDrives on the way. If the two companies were to merge we would see integrated software that would automatically backup your entire computer’s harddrive!!!! During your computers ‘down’ time the software would backup and index all your files. When it notices certain files have been updated, it updates only those particular files.
7. “.Google” Accounts

The .Google account differs from online storage above in that it is basically your online storage for web based apps and real files that you upload to the account. These files could then be further manipulated using…. For $99 a year, this would be well worth it!
6. Leopard Web OS

OS11 as a web OS would be the lucid wet dream of every nerd in the country!!! Combine this with #8 and #7 and you have a complete virtual extension of your physical computer(s)! Featuring every Apple iLife application as web apps along side the existing Google apps, this would make for the ultimate web based operating system!
5. Sharable Spo.tlig.ht

Spotlight the contents of your computer, or your .Google account, index them, then share links to certain files with a del.icio.us style link sharing system. Make your links public, private or password protected.
4. BlogLife
With every piece of your digital life already available with the previously mentioned technologies, it would be a no-brainer to develop an application that would allow you to drag and drop files for all types blogging.
5. GSAN

Apple plays with networking these days but Google OWNS it. Devised using the same scalable ideology that makes up GooglePlex, a GSAN system would allow companies to create large complex data networks that benefited from the simplexity proficient designs of Apple’s design team.
4. gPods

How sexy would this be? Similar to a Zune, gPods would allow you to play music and watch video. Other key features would be non-limited WiFi for sharing files between devices and computers. You could purchase things online and the integrated gMaps would mean you are never lost and a 500GB hard drive would mean you audiophiles could upload your favorite tunes as uncompressed PCM WAV files!!!
3. Google the World!
This optional feature would mean you could voluntarily share information from your computer with the entire userbase of Apoogle. Just wrote a school research paper on String Theory? Simply drag and drop it to the designated folder and it would become searchable, sharable and tagable.
2. GoogleKnows
Apple already has a huge developer base of clients who’ve created very useful things for the medical fields. This web technology would allow scientists and doctors to create an incredible database of indexed video, text and picture research. The combined knowledge of the entire scientific community would be right at a users fingertips!! Need to know the structure of the DNA sequence of a monkey? Apoogle it! The DNA sequence of a Koala? Apoogle it! The DNA sequence of Barbra Walters? Apoogle it!!!!!!
1. GoogleSpace+Time

Google recently partnered with NASA to provide “large-scale data management, massively distributed computing, bio-info-nano convergence, and the encouragement of the entrepreneurial space industry.” With Nasa as a partner Apoogle would gain access to the incalculable amounts of information NASA has already stored (the biosphere, the solar system, the deep sea, the farthest reaches of the universe). Apoogle would take that information, index it, analyze it and then share it with the entire scientific and academic community….worldwide…. Combine all this with the possible privatization of the space industry and a potential partnership with Virgin and….oh….my… Call a doctor I think I just had a seizure!
Geez. With all this stuff eventually the entire state of California would be bought by Apple/Google and it would become one large data cluster that served the entire planet!
Who’s the Borg now?






3 Comments, Comment or Ping
Ashley
Borgs…oh, the good ol’ days of Star Trek, TNG. But alas, all we have to look forward to now is a Virgin Apoosa (= Virigin + Apple + Google + Nasa). Geeks rock.
Jan 26th, 2007
Jon
Vapoosa! =)
Jan 26th, 2007
Darius T. Williams
Some of these aren’t that bad of an idea. I wouldn’t mind having an Ipod that worked with my DVR somehow. I’ve got tons of shows that I’d love to watch on the train or standing in line - or wherever…it’d be nice if that could work - DirecTV, Google, and Apple - ADirecoogle. How about that? LOL
Jan 31st, 2007
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