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			<title>Gmail breaks iOS chains</title>
			<link>http://w3bguru.com/news/article/gmail-breaks-ios-chains</link>
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Yesterday (yeah, yeah, I&#039;m late), Google released a stunning new version of Gmail for iPad and iPhone. I tried to write this story several times on May 6, but the newsroom was short-staffed, keeping me extra busy. Vacations, bank holiday in United Kingdom and Orthodox Easter Monday just about emptied BetaNews. So, please, pardon this belated story about the great Google escape.
What a wild one, too. Control-freak Apple uses Safari to keep developers like Google in check. Especially such a rival that invades iOS with a remarkably rich set of apps tightly tied to myriad web services. So Gmail&#039;s sudden liberation is quite surprising. Links now go to installed Google apps -- gasp, Chrome, Maps and YouTube -- rather than opening Safari. Chrome linkage really is a shocker, and all the more so with Google kissing WebKit to the wind in favor of its own browsing engine. Expect it in the Chrome stable channel soon.
Google is clearly set out to invade Apple&#039;s mobile platform with strong apps and connected services. Last week, Google Now arrived, rivaling Siri, and available to more iOS users than members of the so-called Android Army. How strange a strategy is that?
Many of Google&#039;s apps are even better than Apple&#039;s. The search giant embraces iOS, extends utility with its own services and extinguishes competing ones, or tries to. That&#039;s old business. The company&#039;s business is long about co-opting other platforms, everything from desktop search app for Windows to Google Frame for Internet Explorer, and more. But the recent aggressiveness on iOS, which really started after Apple pulled Google Maps, is quite new -- and good for iOS users, but probably bad for the fruit-logo company. That is long-term.
Apple wants iOS users connecting to its services and iCloud. But given Google&#039;s far reach, a strategy of booting the search giant&#039;s apps is no longer viable. Customers want Google apps and services, which co-opt the Apple experience. Still, I have to wonder if this linkage will last. If Google, why not other developers? Letting every Tom, Dick and Jane developer link to whatever -- gee, like Chrome instead of Safari -- is chaos, a control freak&#039;s worst nightmare. 
So, I wonder: Is Google&#039;s prison break an open tunnel for other developers to follow? Or will Apple shoot the inmates and send the hounds after Gmail?
Photo Credit: Stasys Eidiejus/Shutterstock

 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 02:07:33 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Amazon beats Google to open Chinese app store</title>
			<link>http://w3bguru.com/news/article/amazon-beats-google-to-open-chinese-app-store</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Kick in the teeth for the Chocolate Factory Amazon has opened an Android app store in China before Google, with the Android Appstore open for business in the middle kingdom.…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 01:07:34 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>E.U. Rules Against Patent Move by Google’s Motorola Unit</title>
			<link>http://w3bguru.com/news/article/eu-rules-against-patent-move-by-google’s-motorola-unit</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The European Union on Monday made a preliminary antitrust finding against Motorola Mobility, saying it had abused its dominance in wireless patents by seeking an injunction against Apple in Germany.    ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 00:07:34 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Google Glass Picks Up Early Signal: Keep Out</title>
			<link>http://w3bguru.com/news/article/google-glass-picks-up-early-signal-keep-out</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Google Glass, a wearable computer not yet formally released, is raising questions about whether it will distract drivers, upend relationships and strip people of what little privacy they still have in public.    ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 00:07:34 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Google Glass eye-cam to turn us all into right little winkers</title>
			<link>http://w3bguru.com/news/article/google-glass-eyecam-to-turn-us-all-into-right-little-winkers</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Something in your peeper or are you just pleased to photo me? Google Glass users are set to look even more ridiculous following the release of code which allows the headset&#039;s wearer to take photographs by winking.…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:07:33 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Google Chrome slips web fix to addicts suffering net withdrawal</title>
			<link>http://w3bguru.com/news/article/google-chrome-slips-web-fix-to-addicts-suffering-net-withdrawal</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Cache and carry on surfing A Google engineer has bunged an &quot;offline mode&quot; into the advertising giant&#039;s cloud-backed Chrome web browser. It allows users to access previously visited pages if there&#039;s suddenly no working internet connection.…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:07:33 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Google formally recognises Palestine: Puts it on the virtual map</title>
			<link>http://w3bguru.com/news/article/google-formally-recognises-palestine-puts-it-on-the-virtual-map</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Following the lead of the UN, ICANN Google has waded into the Middle East&#039;s most intractable conflict by recognising Palestine as an independent state.…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:07:33 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>EC: Motorola abused its patents in Apple iPhone spat</title>
			<link>http://w3bguru.com/news/article/ec-motorola-abused-its-patents-in-apple-iphone-spat</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Injunctions violated EU antitrust rules Google&#039;s Motorola Mobility division was dealt another blow in Europe on Monday, when the European Commission (EC) informed the company that its use of standard-essential patents (SEPs) likely constitutes a violation of EU antitrust rules.…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:07:33 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Google hit by building automation security FAIL</title>
			<link>http://w3bguru.com/news/article/google-hit-by-building-automation-security-fail</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Choc Factory&#039;s Oz HQ hacked by researchers The building housing Google Australia&#039;s lavish Sydney headquarters is running the known-vulnerable Tridium Niagara building management system, and has been compromised by the Cylance researchers who have made Niagara their mission.…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:07:33 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Google in fresh legal trouble over Motorola patent cases</title>
			<link>http://w3bguru.com/news/article/google-in-fresh-legal-trouble-over-motorola-patent-cases</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The European Commission said it believed Motorola Mobility was abusing its market position by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:07:33 EDT</pubDate>
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