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Larry Page tries to set the record straight with regards to Android








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RE: How does it feel, Apple?
By Tony Swash on 7/11/2010 1:02:39 AM , Rating: 0


I think the point here is that until Google decided to directly compete against Apple's flagship product, and chose to alter its previous Android development trajectory to make Android more closely resemble the Apple iPhone, Apple had made great efforts to work closely with Google. Apple tried to integrate Google products with its own products and it went so far as to invite the Google CEO onto its board.

Google chose to orientate its Android product to directly compete with Apple. This made Eric Schmidt's (Google's CEO) position on the Apple board untenable and he stood down. Apple made no hostile or critical public comments about this and did not publicly criticise Google.


Apple's public response to all this has been very muted. Steve Jobs has made some public remarks elliptically critical of Google and has allegedly made some stronger critical remarks in a private internal Apple staff conference.

Apparently Larry Page feels it is OK to criticise and parody Apple explicitly and in public but takes umbrage at the suggestion that Google was influenced in its design of Android by Apple's iPhone.

It all seems a bit rich to me particularly, as I have shown in my previous posts in this thread, that there is evidence to strongly suggest that Google did indeed copy Apple's iPhone.

To put it more pithily: Google started throwing shit at Apple long before Apple made some fairly restrained criticisms of Google. It was Google that decided to break the partnership with Apple.

Why Google decided to do that, to break with Apple, is not clear. Its not clear what the commercial justification for this was. Google will be damaged by this as will Apple. Personally I am not convinced that it was a clear strategic decision by Google to break with Apple, I suspect that it was a decision that Google stumbled into as a result of its loose (and fairly chaotic) internal decision making process. Now Google is stuck with this position and it would be difficult to backtrack.

I also suspect that in the long term it will be Google and not Apple that will suffer the most from a break between the two companies.

I also suspect that Google will eventually cease to be the darling of forums, but that's for another discussion.

RE: How does it feel, Apple?


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