Let me explain. One of Microsoft’s favorite marketing ploys is to pre-announce a product in a market they’d like to compete in months, years, or even indefinately (in the case it’s never produced) before they actualy come out with a product, just to kill the competition.
Because hey, if MS is releasing XYZ 2000, why buy the competing software that Local Co. is producing. Microsoft is safer because, hey, they’re a Huge Mega Corp ™. Even if they don’t actually have a product.
So here’s an article from Ars Technica trumpeting the potential Doom of Ebay by Google. All they need, according to Ars, are slightly lower fees and users will flock away from the entrenched EBay/Paypal architecture over to Google.
Nevermind that this hasn’t happened with any other market google’s taken on, from what I can tell. I’d expect it to meet middleing success, much like their array of other applications and infrastructure pieces (see Google’s IM service for a good example). Although GMail worked out, so there may be a ray of hope.
So in an effort to love all things googleish people are treating every news release as the doom of their competitors, much like they did with Microsoft. Hopefully someone will remove the wool from comentators eyes at some point.
Google Base now offering payments
