Google Exec: You Shouldn’t Trust Apple With Your Life

(12:54 pm PDT, Feb 8th)

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Google’s Technology Ambassador thinks using Apple Maps might kill you

Michael T. Jones has a helluva fun job. He’s the Chief Technology Ambassador for Google, and as such, he not only gets to work for one of the coolest companies in the world, he also gets to cruise around the world and tell people why Google is so darn awesome.

When it comes to Apple, you would think that Michael Jones would have some really mean things to say. In a recent interview with ABC News in Australia, Michael Jones actually praised Apple and said that customers can trust Apple with their private data. But then he added that using Apple Maps might kill you.

When asked about whether consumers should be able to trust companies like Apple and Google with all of their private data, Jones responded with the following:

I certainly trust Apple, and I trust Google, and I trust Microsoft, for that matter. These are not corrupt organizations; these are nice people trying to serve you.

I think you should be worried about getting where you want to go if you use Apple Maps. If you want to be honest, you’re taking your life in your own hands there..

Jones is most likely referring to the recent Apple Maps fiasco in Australia where a few travelers were stranded after Apple Maps took them on a wild route that got them lost. The Australian Police warned citizens against using Apple Maps.

The story was probably big joke around the Googleplex, but maybe Michael Jones and his buddies missed the story where the Australian police also listed Google Maps as being dangerous too.

Maybe Jones thought his comments were funny, and they almost were, except telling people their cellphone might kill them, when it can’t, is pretty over the top if you as us.

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  • xynta_man

    Yeah, you better trust a data-mining, privacy-invasive ad company, right.

  • jordy corvers

    I would defenitely trust apple, apple is just so “clean” it really is just focusing on responsible innovating. google on the other hand I view as a company that is secretly collecting your data to find an algorithm that knows what you want so that it can sell you a bunch of crap you don’t need. in the end end it’s all perception

  • cgs101

    “Fun job” and “coolest companies in the world” but why the suit and the tie??

  • David Colley

    Like most google losers, here’s another one that does not know what they are talking about. Yeah, trust google you know the people that search your email to sell to advertisers

  • NutjobNumber1

    Google is irrelevant. Sorry. I only use Google for internet searches and a email account. That’s all I rely on them for.

  • sanfordandsons

    OMG, are you kidding? Trust GOOGLE? I hate Google. I only have one Google account (I know this stupid blog is linked to my Google account) Googel has so much information on people, its really scary.

  • jdsonice

    And we should trust Google? Are we all stupid or morons? I would trust Apple over Google any day for anything unconditionally. That does not mean I trust Apple, but compared to the two Apple it is. Google would sell my information in a flash to make their 25 pieces of silver.

  • aardman

    A Google nabob highlighting the issue of trust. You can’t make this thing up.

  • M B

    WHEN YOU THINK OF PRIVACY…IT AIN’T GOOGLE..THEY ARE EXACT OPPOSITE OF PRIVACY…MORE LIKE THIEVES!

  • Kr00

    It’s an age old conjurers trick. Watch the right hand while performing a trick with the left. Seriously? A company that has divested interests in data collection, DNA laboratories, electrical companies and god knows what else, just to get as much information on people as possible, just so they can target advertise, is a serious worry.

    You’d best watch this before throwing stones, google.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfV6RzE30

  • http://twitter.com/seelee Lee Smith

    I think it’s foolish to “trust” ANY public company – or government entity for that matter.

  • http://twitter.com/markrlangston Mark Langston

    It’s good to know that one or even a few incidents equates to a standard. That’s how stereotypes (racial, age, economic status, etc) start. If one Taco Bell serves you a cold burrito and a warm Coke then ALL of them do.

    I’ve been given incorrect directions from Google Maps too. Several times. No, not nearly as many times as Apple Maps but suggesting that their app can’t lead you astray is foolish.

    Obviously Jones was having a bit of fun with the issue, it’s easy pickings. And yet for all his success and intelligence he can’t help but say something brazenly outlandish and completely uncalled for.

  • http://www.facebook.com/urban.spaceman Ian Bradley

    To be honest you’d have to be a complete idiot to need sat-nav assistance when driving

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Buster HeineBuster Heine is Cult of Android's Social Media Editor. Hailing from Roswell, New Mexico, but now spending his days in Phoenix, Arizona, he wastes most of his time eating burritos and reading spanish romance novels.  Twitter: @bst3r.

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