Damien muses on the Google-Jaiku purchase. It’s a great jigsaw puzzle but flawed only in the way that Google tends to be a 85% company. They may have infinite money and a load of code-overbrains working for them but it seems to me that they do the first 85% and then…sit back and count the ad revenue. Why is Google Talk so unfinished? Why are maps updated so infrequently (my building isn’t even on the map and it’s been there at least 3 years)? Why has Orkut languished despite being the Google service that gets the most page views.
It seems that the overbrains at Google are either leaving things unfinished or they’ve yet to release their superplan. I’m voting for the former because I think their superplan is, ta-da, 85% complete. And like many superplans (Apple’s Pink, Taligent and Copland. The AIM Alliance’s CHRP. Palm’s Folio. Palm’s Be acquisition. Any deal with Microsoft that they don’t own you at the end.) they end up being a faerytale.
Damiens comments unintentionally riff off a load of crap I was talking about what I wanted in a phone.
If gPhone rather than iPhone does the trick, I still win. Go me!