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There is really a difference... Apple and Google work together when it suits both of them, and compete when it is to their own interests. Apple know a majority of its users are going to use youtube weither they have a product that works well with their products or not, so you might as well make it work with YouTube or face someone else making it easier. Same with google maps. But they will compete with google Spotlight vs. Google Desktop, the new iPhoto vs. picasso? .MAC vs. Google Mail/Pages iWork vs. Googles Spreadsheet and Word Processor. Being a competitor doesn't mean you need to be mortal enemies all the time. Heck I work as a consultant and I am usually friendly with other Consultants from different companies. Sure they are competing with me for my services but there is no point making enemies with then if you need to work to gether make sure you are working together as well if not better then your competitor is.Wow I have a Blog! [blogspot.com] Whoo De Doo!
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Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday August 08, @12:35PM (#119439)
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The iPhone is a phone for people who can afford it and want the latest thing. It's not that big of a market.
The Google phone will be aimed at the regular phone user who just wants something better. A mass-market item that just works.
There is room for both types of devices just like there is room for luxury cars AND the regular daily drivers most of us own.
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Anonymous Coward
on Thursday August 09, @06:36AM (#119458)
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But will it quell the rumors that Google is working on an "iPhone Killer?"
Do you think before you type? Apple and Google are corporations. The entire point of their existence is to make money. Why do they partner? Because it makes both of them some money. That's it. It's not some great principled alliance designed to bring enlightenment to the computer industry, it's a fucking profit-making scheme! If Google can bring a phone to market that people want and are willing to use, why would that have anything to do with Apple? How is "this will put a stop to those rumors" anything but continued preposterous and ill-informed speculation?
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Holy cow! A little nastier reply than the OP deserved, no?
But it is not a rumor. It is well known that MS and google are working on communications devices. Actually, their applications to the FCC finally failed approval yesterday. These would use a new part of the wireless spectrum, not really like cell phones as we know them today. Other patents have been filed that would paint them as weird advertising/people tracker devices. (Slashdot front page) Hmm.
I think it's wise to ask what kind of deals and trade-offs Apple, Google, and other tech alliances make. I can assure you than NOTHING in Silicon Valley is as simple as implied by this AC. It ISN'T always about making money right now. Sometimes it is about spending/loosing money for a different/better market position. Sometimes it is about ego.
Let me ask you, how DID Steve Jobs come to rule Apple? Was that deal with MS (to give them Apple's entire patent portfolio for peanuts) financially sound for Apple investors? NO WAY. But it got Office developed for a few more years. Steve got to shove NeXT into Apple, and eventually run the show. Long term payoff seems to be OK in my book.
It is more interesting to look at who is loosing money, and why, IMO.
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Anonymous Coward
on Sunday September 02, @10:51AM (#119744)
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good page .i like http://www.seosay.com
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Anonymous Coward
on Friday August 10, @04:23AM (#119469)
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You are (presumably) a human being. You've seen first-hand the survival advantages of co-operation. Why would you imagine that businesses all have an isolationist mentality?
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