Google Vice President Marissa Mayer likes … APPLE Products! – Part 1

It is not unknown that Google, Inc. and Apple, Inc. are in a cold war of late on various application in general and mobile operating systems in particular. Both companies might even be willing to slip the very foundations from each other’s buildings at Silicon Valley and/or Cupertino, but its America and there is this thing called the LAW that disdains these kinds of activities. Besides, Apple has one leg in Paulo Alto and the other in state courts, owing to the copyright law suits.

However, there is one person that seems to be oblivious to this competition. This particular person belongs to Google in this case and is a very lady, and a brainy one for that matter, extremely. She joined Google in the early days of its inception and since then has stuck with company. This very SHE is one Marissa Mayer, who graduated from Stanford University…twice; which means she has two degrees with Stanford University embossed on the top of it.

Mayer serves as the Vice President of Location and Local Services department at Google and a very brilliant one at that. Her track record is quite impressive; well, she survived the 2008 crisis, didn’t she. So, she is quite good at what she does.

However, what she might not be good at is… how should it be put…GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. There is doubt that she knows about the fist fight between Google and Apple, where normally a court judge is the referee. However, the suspicion of her ignorance of the competition between the two tech goliaths was made sure by none other than herself in a Google + post:

“On the router question, I went out and bought a Netgear N600 at Walmart that same night. But, I had continued problems even with the new router — with range and devices getting conflicting IPs (I have a bunch of phones, tablets, Tivos, Google TVs, Apple TVs, etc.). So, for Christmas, I asked for an Airport Extreme and 2 Airport Expresses (to chain together and create a mesh with better range). I set them all up last night, got all the devices connecting, and so far so good. It’s not really a fair comparison, since there are 3 routers to the Netgear’s 1, but iStumbler showed a lot more signal strength throughout the house, rarely less than 45%.

I was really impressed with Apple’s Airport Utility and how simple it made the set-up and chaining of routers. Hard to make the experience of setting up of a home network beautiful, but at least it was easy.

I kind of wish I had gotten a time capsule for backups, but I was pretty focused on getting a good router system. Plus, that’s what DropBox is for 😉 +Aseem Sood +Jeff Bartelma.”

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Jan 4 2012. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry