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Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal
IvanIV
16-03-2010
Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal

Quite an interesting read in NYT.
Dragons_Heartbeat
27-03-2010
Apple are kind of stupid falling out with Google to be honest most of the Apps that orignally came pre installed on the Iphone/Itouch such as Maps, Youtube are based on Googles services in some way even Safari Mobiles search Engine.
Pr1s0n 13reak
27-03-2010
Are Google not satisfied with owning the interwebz?
psionic
27-03-2010
It was a two way relationship between Apple and Google initially. They both profited hugely from it. But things have changed and the situation has evolved. Their target markets now overlap too much.
1. Google is now in competition with Apple - with Android.
2. Apple has such a large chunk of the smartphone market they don't need Google anymore.

Apple have even been in talks with Microsoft to use Bing on the Mac/iPhone. They can either patch up their differences amicably or get bitchy and mount legal challenges against each other. Either way both will survive.
BeethovensPiano
27-03-2010
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=883971
silentNate
27-03-2010
Originally Posted by BeethovensPiano:
“http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=883971”

I hope the waitress got a big tip

Will be interesting to see how Google copes expanding its business into traditional areas dominated by Apple
kyussmondo
30-03-2010
People use Google services all the time on the iPhone and Google is happy to give it to them. I personally use Google Sync to sync my mail, contacts and calendars OTA, although I am sure Apple would prefer me to pay for a MobileMe subscription.

I think Google wanted a bit more freedom, like their Google Voice app was blocked because of Apple and Apple wouldn't have let Google integrate Google Sync nicely into the iPhone because they want to sell MobileMe so Google had to do a work around with Microsoft Exchange. Secondly, and more importantly I think Google wanted to get more people using Google, so to do that you have an Android phone which requires a Google Account. Plus they probably looked at the market and seen that no one else was even close to the iPhone so to get on more handsets they had to create their own that they would control.

Personally I think it is the media making something out of nothing. Sure Steve Jobs can be outspoken, but at the end of the day they are both businesses. Apple aren't going to dump Google on the iPhone, iPad or Mac. People want to watch YouTube and use Google to search as good as services like Vimeo and Bing may be. At the same time Google needs Apple. The iPhone is still the most popular smart phone, the Mac continues to grow and the iPad is expected to be huge. The more devices it is on, the better for Google.

Both companies could probably go on without each other, but people would be a bit shocked at first if they couldn't get YouTube on their phone or they was suddenly presented with Bing. At the same time Google could pull out from the iPhone, Mac and iPad but it would lose a lot of mindshare and potential revenue.
NearFarTech
30-03-2010
This was always coming I think. Eric Schmidt was on the Apple board for 3 years whilst they were in bed, picking up lots of info and ideas along the way. Then, he goes off and then Droid and Nexus One are out in the US.

Not only potential iPhone killers, but also iPhone lookalikes and coming to phone providers in the US that could start to entice people away from iPhone (ultimately AT&T).

I can understand Apple where they say that they didn't enter search. However, competition is only good for the consumer in the end, and I doubt even the Android App Market Place will ever get as big as the App Store. Competition is search means absolutely nothing to the layman.

Maybe they just need to get innovating again.
NearFarTech
30-03-2010
Originally Posted by silentNate:
“I hope the waitress got a big tip

Will be interesting to see how Google copes expanding its business into traditional areas dominated by Apple ”

Nail on the head. However, one thing about Google is that they are an ad company, and moving to retail and customer service is a big leap!

One place where Apple does shine.
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