“For a company that is busy building its own cellphone operating system, Google shared a lot of love for the iPhone on its earnings-related conference call today,” Saul Hansell reports for The New York Times.
“The most heartwarming story came from Sergey Brin, the company’s co-president, who said that he uses an iPhone himself. He described the value of the My Location feature of Google Maps on the iPhone,” Hansell reports.
“‘I was at a conference in Switzerland,’ he said, presumably referring to the World Economic Forum conference in Davos,” Hansell reports. “‘I was able to find a really small hotel, then switch over to the satellite view on my phone to figure out I needed to take a funicular to get up there. It was a really amazing experience.'”
“Google has said that it is now getting more Web traffic from the iPhone than from any other type of mobile device,” Hansell reports.
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@KingMel
Dude! You need to get out of Kansas more often! These things are very common anywhere there’s a mountain.
A Google Apple Merger?
“My son LOVES his iPhone.
It’s never more than 3 feet from him.”
How long are his arms?
Sergey Brin,
The only person wealthy enough to use an ATT/iPhone in Europe.
Google Apple Merger… Probably not. Google search is built in the interface of os x and has been for some time. Isn’t some one from google on the Apple board of Directors?
I think the two firms complement one another, No need for Apple to Buy them. Now might Google license some of the hardware Apple developed? i.e. gesture etc. Sure. Why not? The Google phone will run off the same production line in China as the Iphone. Apple is hardware. Google is Software/search. Two different universes. Apple makes fantastic apps that sell hardware.