“Apple’s much-vaunted iPhone received a ringing endorsement from the chief executive of Google, Eric Schmidt, on Tuesday, after he claimed that the handset was a perfect platform for the search specialist’s hosted applications,” Andrew Donoghue reports for ZDNet UK.
“Speaking at an event in Paris on Tuesday, Schmidt was questioned on whether, as Google’s boss and an Apple board member, he had any insights into future collaboration between the two companies. ‘What you are really asking is to see my iPhone,’ he quipped before producing a handset from his pocket. ‘iPhone is a powerful new device and is going to be particularly good for the apps that Google is building. You should expect other announcements from the two companies over time,’ he said,” Donoghue reports.
“The iPhone, which will be launched in the US on 29 June, but which will not be available in the UK until later this year, fully incorporates Google’s search and mapping services. Users can make phone calls directly from Google Maps,” Donoghue reports. “Key to Google’s belief in the potential of the iPhone is Apple’s decision to integrate support for the Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) web-development technique.”
Full article here.
collaboration
one which Microsoft lacks.
google talk?
The natural alliance of Apple with those providing Web 2.0 services is a very big deal. Microsoft’s ability to lock competitors from accessing various services on the net is doomed.
Actually, if you review my interview at Allthingsdigltal5 (the one with Gates) you will hear me talk about what I admired about Microsoft. And that was their ability to partener with other companies being in their DNA.
Guess what. It was me talking about what I had learned to do! Notice how I said that we probably would have been better off if we had learned that early on?
S.
And people say Apple is no good at partnership!
Let’s see… Google is suing Microsoft, and collaborating with Apple… sweeeet…
Find your iPhone..
http://web.mac.com/wolfiemac/iWeb/iPhone/Track iPhone /Track iPhone .html
@ nym Steve Jobs
You mean you couldn’t see the <sarcasm> tag from your position?
Microsoft, most sued company ever, lost more lawsuits than any other company, paid out well over $10Bn to ‘partners’ in compensation, and that’s what is publicly available, most cases are settled with no details announced.
and Verizon sez ..”We don’t need no stinkin iPhone Killer .. We have V Cast
Don’t forget services! SERVICES!!! It’s a cast of countless wonderful services that will keep people on Verizon.
2 dollar ringtones!!!
8 color games!!!
THE NETWORK!!!
What do people want? They want services. We even told them.
Business is just like playing “Risk”. You develop alliances, but always understand in the back of your mind that things may change. There are no loyalties. There can’t be. Google may be just fine, and tomorrow build a web browser to compete with Safari. There’s just no telling.
Interesting take on the iPhone…iMutate and Mutational Magic software development…to funny
http://71.18.81.225/Pretty Blue Planet – Evolutionary Software Development.pdf
@C1: I love your sense of humor.
Andrew:“Google may be just fine, and tomorrow build a web browser to compete with Safari. There’s just no telling.”
And Apple would be fine with that, particularly if it worked well with open standards. One of the main reasons Apple created Safari was to ensure the existence of a top class open standards compliant browser for the Macs that they sell and make tons of money on.
Safari in and of itself is not a great money maker for Apple, they make money by having it available on hardware that they sell. If Google made an even better browser that worked on Macs and PCs, Apple would not mind, it might help them sell even more Macs.
Safari on Windows is all about having Safari as a platform, which works on Macs, PCs, and soon iPhones. Since Apple will sell tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of iPhones, having Safari on Windows is critical to ensuring development of websites works well on their phones.
Again it’s about using software to sell hardware. Even if Google built a browser that got more marketshare than Safari on Windows, the existence of Safari on Windows would still work just fine to ensure developers could build their sites to work well on iPhones.
Brandishing the iPhone? Is Eric Schmidt channeling Errol Flynn?
ARRRGGGHHH ! ! !
@ChrissyOne
Well done. I can take the day off.
Your potential. Our passion.™
The WWW is like an Apple.
You can eat it ripe,
you can cook it raw,
you can juice it,
you can Cider it,
you can Vinegar it,
you can bake it,
you can crumble it,
You can turn over it,
You can Jam it,
you can jelly it,
you can pectin it,
you can flapjack it,
you can biscuit it,
you can sauce it,
you can relish it,
you can pickle it,
you can dry it,
you can upside down cake it,
you can cake it,
you can ice cream it,
Get the idea what you can do with an Apple? and that was just the fruit!:-)
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg in a private board meeting this morning:
“Well that’s great, that’s just fsckin’ great man. Now what the fsck are we supposed to do? We’re in some real pretty sh!t now man… That’s it man, game over man, game over! What the fsck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?”
Zune Tang, don’t you get the sarcasm…just how ignorant are you?
M$ is going to struggle to play catch up. They will also continue to be seen as second tier when it comes to leading into the future.
Good show.
I had no idea that any member of the Verizon board had been in Aliens.
If I were to think of a James Cameron moview that is more appropriate, I would have thought Titanic myself.
Georgy Porgy gets it. Great insight and overall I would have to say that’s a fantastic post. Keep ’em coming!
Your potential. Our passion.™
If I were Ballmer, I’d be peeing my pants right about now. The only two major companies that have ever stood up to Microsoft and lived to tell about it, are now working together. (Well, maybe 3 if you count Intel, but they aren’t exactly MS rivals).
I just hope Apple does not become sidekick to Google’s world domination plans, which everyone seems to think they harbor. (Press Release: Your iPhone will now index you and add you to the Google search engine…)
“If I were Ballmer, I’d be peeing my pants right about now.”
Close. If you were Ballmer, you’d be peeing in your assistant’s pants. Money and power means privilege.
Will the real Steve Jobs please stand up, please stand up
Never mind the real Steve Jobs.
Where the hell is the real Zune Tang?