Re: Google Not Supporting Gears on Snow Leopard?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: James Love <jamespackardlove () gmail com>
Date: October 8, 2009 11:34:08 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Google Not Supporting Gears on Snow Leopard?

It is possible the lag is coming from Google.  It is also possible that
Apple makes things difficult.

It would be nice if Apple would release some software that would work on
Linux, make it easier to read drives formatted in EX3 or EX4, or support
open document formats in Apple iWork software.


Jamie

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:23 -0400, Dave Farber wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>
> > From: Nic Pottier <nicpottier () gmail com>
> > Date: October 8, 2009 11:17:26 EDT
> > To: dave <dave () farber net>
> > Subject: Google Not Supporting Gears on Snow Leopard?
>
> > For IP if you wish..
> >
> > I'm usually not the one to cry conspiracy theory, but I have been
> > rather surprised at how slowly Google is moving to support it's own
> > product in Snow Leopard.
> >
> > Namely, you cannot install Google Gears on Snow Leopard without
> > using
> > a third party hack, and even then it will only work in 32 bit
> > browsers.
> >
> > This has been detailed here:
> > <http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=847>
> >
> > With the clear frosting of the relationship between Google and Apple
> > recently, it really makes one wonder.  As a user of Google
> > properties
> > for a long time, I've always appreciated that they treated OS X as a
> > first class citizen.  Perhaps an update is right around the corner,
> > but their comments on the bug report don't sound promising.
> >
> > <conspiracy>
> >
> > Could this be the first signs of Google using it's high adoption
> > rate
> > of Gmail and the like to help give their upcoming GoogleOS a leg up?
> >
> > </conspiracy>
> >
> > -Nic
> Archives





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