Posted on 03/13/2010 9:19:09 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Google and Apple had worked together to bring Google’s search and mapping services to the iPhone, the executives told the audience, and Mr. Schmidt joked that the collaboration was so close that the two men should simply merge their companies and call them “AppleGoo.”
“Steve, my congratulations to you,” Mr. Schmidt told his corporate ally. “This product is going to be hot.” Mr. Jobs acknowledged the compliment with an ear-to-ear smile.
Today, such warmth is in short supply. Mr. Jobs, Mr. Schmidt and their companies are now engaged in a gritty battle royale over the future and shape of mobile computing and cellphones, with implications that are reverberating across the digital landscape.
In the last six months, Apple and Google have jousted over acquisitions, patents, directors, advisers and iPhone applications. Mr. Jobs and Mr. Schmidt have taken shots at each other’s companies in the media and in private exchanges with employees.
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fyi
The phone market shall come together to one final dominant player just like the resturaunt market has come together under the dominance of, ummm well ... it is and will be the same. Because everyone wants the same thing out of a phone just like they want the same food.
Well,...it will be interesting to see how this all works out...gonna get interesting.
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