“Google sees Apple as a valuable partner and sees no reason for that to change, a senior executive said amid rumors that Microsoft’s Bing search engine may replace Google on the iPhone,” Georgina Prodhan reports for Reuters. “‘Apple is a very close and valuable partner and we’re very excited about the relationship we have with them today. Vic Gundotra, who leads Google’s mobile engineering, told journalists on Monday, ‘We have no reason to believe that’s going to change.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Neither did Motorola and IBM.
Prodhan continues, “‘We don’t want to comment on those rumors,’ he said when pressed on the issue of the iPhone at a roundtable at industry trade fair Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. ‘We think that relationship is stable.'”
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Where are these rumors coming from? The tech industry is like a high school rumor mill these days.
Sure Google sees Apple as a valuable partner, that’s where Eric Schmidt get’s all of his ideas:
Safari=Chrome,
iPhone OS=Chrome OS
iPhone=Nexus One
iTunes rentals=YouTube rentals
iBookstore=Google Bookstore
Quattro=AdMob
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer?
‘We think that relationship is stable.’
Haha. I’ll tell that to my wife the next time we have an argument. That’ll set her mind at ease.
MW: almost
Fitting
Is back stabbing what google do to their close and valuable partners to adhere their “do no evil” slogan. Steve was right when he called the bogus slogan a load-of-crap.
Relationships change rapidly in the Tech World, especially with Apple. Doesn’t matter what Google does or imitates. Apple rarely looks back.
What I find most ironic about Apple’s unpredictable dance with various partners is the significant role Microsoft played in saving Apple from financial implosion back in the late 90’s. Without MS, this dance may have never happened. Isn’t life rich!
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The CEO of Google has done a lot of damage.
If you don’t have honesty in business and relationships you have nothing.
Just don’t try to buy the Keyword iPhone in Google’s keyword Ad action right now Because Google will not sell you the Word, As they are using it to promote the Nexus One. They also have several Other iPhone related words tied up too. In my view this is Google using it’s search Monopoly in a very uncompetitive manner. Microsoft Bing is just as bad has they have place restrictions on the Words: iPhone, iPod, Mac OS X, Android, Droid, Nexus, Google, Apple and some other words related to Apple and Google. Anticompetitive behavior is ripe in two different monopoly’s were is the US Justice Department’s investigation into this Monopoly abuse. The Jusitice department should send a very strong signal by forcing the breakup of Googkle and Microsoft into much much smaller companies.
I know MDN likes to slam Google, but really, Bing is awful on a cell phone. I can’t imagine why it would be seen as an improvement over Google search on the iPhone.
@ It’s About Time
I know you mean well, but please don’t perpetuate the “MS saved Apple” myth. There was more to that famous 150 million dollars than meets the eye.
Anyone who believes this, do some research or please read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company
And:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/592FE887-5CA1-4F30-BD62-407362B533B9.html
Amongst others…
What I find most ironic about Apple’s unpredictable dance with various partners is the significant role Microsoft played in saving Apple from financial implosion back in the late 90’s. Without MS, this dance may have never happened. Isn’t life rich!
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And without Apple in the early 80’s, there would be no Microsoft or Windows.
Please, not Bing. I don’t want Bing on my iPod touch. Google is still the best search engine out there.
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Apple needs to create a search engine.