http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/ Engadget Comments for BumpTop acquired by Google, no longer available http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/Glad I don't.]]>May 2nd 2010 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/nope, i'm glad i don't.]]>May 2nd 2010 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Very soon there will be only 3 or 4 tech corporations left!]]>May 2nd 2010 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Dear Google, you gonna get owned by HPPalm if you really base chrome os on this crap amateur execution of a lousy idea.]]>May 2nd 2010 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Agreed. Hope Google didn't spend too much money. I installed it for half an hour on my 2730p tablet and realized it was pointless b/c I never store my files on my desktop anyways. File storage on a desktop is just a recipe for disorganization - especially if you're in the middle of writing a research paper or similar. ]]>May 2nd 2010 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/I got full refund and still can use my Pro version :D]]>May 2nd 2010 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://j.mp/tablet-concept-from-google]]>May 2nd 2010 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Everybody who saw this thing thought it was convoluted a clunky, effectively an overly complex 'desktop.'

Glad for the devs to get some cash, I can't imagine what Google's going to do with this thing, its a nightmare to use. Picking up documents and putting them in piles on the desktop? Seriously?

Well, at least it kinda looks 3D, maybe Google will just snag the UI, and skip the horribly thought out 'file management' system.]]>May 2nd 2010 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/im glad to see google buy this... i tried it out, and think its a great option for an interface (especially with a touch device). But currently its clunky and a bit buggy...and interferes with my filing habits.

If google polishes this up it could be an useful and intuitive interface,
maybe even better than apples. ]]>May 2nd 2010 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Yeah if Apple bought the company, you would be arranging photos in stacks, and tossing them all over the place. ...Oh wait!]]>May 3rd 2010 1:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Actually I don't think it is.]]>May 2nd 2010 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/an'droids'?]]>May 2nd 2010 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Android robots? Sounds more deadly than a ATM machine]]>May 2nd 2010 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/Will Google's androids be something like from dragonballz or Terminator?]]>May 2nd 2010 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/Too late...]]>May 2nd 2010 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Even if it won't be all that useful, it would be fun to sort out photos. Just little icons of snaps and lasso them with your finger into an album, then spill out some more and sort them.

I've never been a fan of the 3D desktop but Google's obviously seen some potential so it'll be interesting to see what they do with it.]]>May 2nd 2010 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Much more plausible than my first thought which was:

"finally a cool interface for Chrome OS"]]>May 2nd 2010 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Nah. I think they just stumbled onto this on the web one day and thought: "WTF? This is just too stupid. Let's buy it and shut it down!"

At least I hope so.. The day my Android phone reboots after update with virtual stacks of paper on the screen is the last day I own it!]]>May 2nd 2010 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
The differences are that Bumptop is in no way as revolutionary as Xerox's Alto/Star OS, and that Google is not Apple.]]>May 3rd 2010 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/Oh, and downrank if you will, but thank goodness google got them before Apple did. ]]>May 2nd 2010 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/apple-bringing-its-operating-system-into-living-3d/

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20080307360&OS=20080307360&RS=20080307360]]>May 2nd 2010 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Downranked for hypocrisy...]]>May 2nd 2010 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Up-ranked. Much deserved. ]]>May 2nd 2010 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/Hypocrisy??

And we all know you down ranked because he said something against your dear, do no wrong, cherished apple.]]>May 2nd 2010 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Please bitch I don't care if he wanted Google to buy it.

Its more the fact that if Apple had bought it he'd be bitching just like you I'm sure.

You Apple Haters are absolute masteries of hypocrisy. Someone performs a perfectly legal move.

If its Company A (ie Apple) then it's horrible, evil, and WRONG.

If its Company B (Google and anyone NOT Apple) then its heavenly, all is right in the world, its lilies, strawberries, and unicorns for everybody!

Such hypocrisy.]]>May 2nd 2010 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Please I don't care if he wanted Google to buy it.

Its more the fact that if Apple had bought it he'd be bitching just like you I'm sure.

You Apple Haters are absolute masteries of hypocrisy. Someone performs a perfectly legal move.

If its Company A (ie Apple) then it's horrible, evil, and WRONG.

If its Company B (Google and anyone NOT Apple) then its heavenly, all is right in the world, its lilies, strawberries, and unicorns for everybody!

Such hypocrisy.]]>May 2nd 2010 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/I get what your'e saying. If Apple had bought the company I'd be mad. Maybe that's hypocrisy, I'm not sure. I do buy into Google's "Don't be evil" mantra, and I personally believe apple falls into the "evil" category. But Apple does make some great products that's for sure.]]>May 2nd 2010 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Dude don't waste your time on them, Google buys them and shuts them down and they cheer. If Apple did the same thing, they would be here crying. ]]>May 2nd 2010 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/You seem a bit touchy... But I do want a unicorn, please.]]>May 2nd 2010 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/May 2nd 2010 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Apple, Lala, both about music...yeah I see it

Google, Bumptop, web/cloud =/= desktop...wtf?]]>May 2nd 2010 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Android and chrome os could be related to this acquisition. ]]>May 2nd 2010 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/So they are excited to announce that their product is discontinued, but, "don't worry, we're rich now! bye suckas!"..

what idiots. ]]>May 2nd 2010 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/bumptop-acquired-by-google/
Idiots?
I'd rather be a rich idiot TBH.]]>May 2nd 2010 3:28PM