“Google chairman Eric Schmidt is currently on a tour of Asia, where he announced the company’s $199 Nexus 7 tablet in Tokyo on Monday. During his announcement, Schmidt found some time to talk about Apple,” Killian Bell reports for Cult of Mac.
“Schmidt revealed that while Apple is a ‘very good partner,’ he doesn’t agree with patent wars, and feels they ‘prevent choice’ and innovation,” Bell reports. “Schmidt also revealed that he doesn’t feel some of Apple’s patents should stand.”
Bell reports, “‘Literally patent wars prevent choice, prevent innovation and I think that is very bad. We are obviously working through that and trying to make sure we stay on the right side of these issues. So ultimately Google stands for innovation as opposed to patent wars,’ [Schmidt said].”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
They want to stand for that, but . . . ummmm . . . they don’t.
Sorry!
Google: “What’s mine is mine. What’s yours is mine also. If you object to me stealing your property I will say you are not playing fair.”. Schmidt sat on Apple’s board and stole as much iPhone information as he could, until Apple booted him off. Google is evil – and leopards don’t change their spots.
Schmidt’s a dick.
You are too kind in your assessment.
How about if he adds “very short and limp”?
…liar, thief, president?
Just throwing out an idea here… I doubt that Apple’s management would want to do this, but wouldn’t any shareholder have standing to sue Schmidt for breaching his fiduciary duty as a board member, and demanding payment to include the return of all shares and other compensation he received as a director of Apple, plus punitive damages.
I have been wondering the same thing. There has to be some protection for investors against board members abusing their position.
You know, what would really be hilarious is if Google had to throw him under the bus to protect *their* shareholders. I’d love to see him made personally liable for all of Apple’s litigation against the Android crowd.
He should be awarded for Innovative Copying And Spying Through Confidence Misuse!
I agree!
Schmidt got do “Do no evil” and “Douche no evil” confused?!
Google is as innovative as Microsoft circa 2000. A one trick pony or as it were MOLE
Agreed.
The word innovate seems to mean anything at all these days.
Heres the dictionary def:
make changes in something established, esp. by introducing new methods, ideas, or products
That seems to sum Apple perfectly, but NOT Google.
This idiot is a has been hack pontificating from a precarious perch built on blatant copying.
Samsung just got their ass handed to them on a $1 billion judgment against them. You’re next, buddy.
OMG…the stuff that comes out of this guy is just pure SH!T!!!
Pure schmidt.
Haha so right!
Shameless. Hey Apple remove Google SEARCH from mobile Safari and iOS. Let’s see the ‘innovation’ on the ‘post Google search era’.
and install a pop up blocker that prevents any ad words related search to be prevented from opening.
I bet Google has a bunch of paid ad clickers just to generate on the paid links.
are you idoit? most people use google map worldwide. it’s proven that map has tons of information. apple map is just beginner. google is a king of information.
Please learn to write in English….this pigeon English you are writing is annoying…..or write in your native language whatever that might be….
Dont tempt them
Not in China or Korea, where Google maps is generally pathetic. The new iOS 6 Apple maps for China is instantly far ahead of Google maps, much faster with better info.
Get your facts straight, when Apple wanted “Turn by turn” directions put in the maps application from Google, (something that has been in all android for several versions), Google refused, they were hoping that it would cause this sort of disruption. They were hoping people like you would say something like this. This is just another nail in Schmidt’s career coffin.
Copying isn’t innovation……innovation is doing R&D and coming up with something new and exciting. Not following another company copying what they did.
“Literally patent wars prevent choice, prevent innovation”. No.
Literally patent wars stifle copying, promote innovation
Fixed.
He says after google blew 12.5 billion on motorola’s patent folder only to find they couldn’t be used to sue apple after their suit got tossed. OOPS.
Guess they have to fall back to their old i’m a victim mantra.
In a perfect world Google would be rag doll for a litter of pit bulls
Eric Schmidt is the slimiest guy this side of Bill Gates.
This is a joke, right? Eric T. Mole is trying to be funny. Right? Please tell me it’s a joke.
Google SUCKS!!!!!
No, Google is evil!
Boo Effing Hoo
Change your default search to BING…
How?
MAC: Safari>Preferences>General>Default Search Engine> Bing.
iOS Device: Settings>Safari>Search Engine>Bing.
Buh bye Google!
thanks! done! easy! everyone, do it!
BING? No f’n way! Microsoft is evil too. Change your default to Blekko or DuckDuckGo.
+1
Indeed! Go to Safari menu>Safari Extensions… and go download OmniBar. Install that, go to preferences and use DuckDuckGo as your default. Then go thank yourself later for being awesome.
I don’t remember Google being so condescending when China was ripping off the algorithms for the google search engine, do you?
Because there’s nothing more innovative than copying somebody else’s work, and nothing offers more choice than a selection of hundreds of mildly varying iPhone rip-offs.
I mean, just think about it. Do you get a real iPhone or a clone of the iPhone? The possibilities are ENDLESS!
Eric Schmidt can go to hell. Seriously.
The pre-iPhone Android phone looks like my 1975 calculator.
Gosh, this has got to be where Zune Thang now works….it is so déjà vu, where have I seen something like this before…ah yes, I think this is it.
pretty rum coming from a thief and a liar
what a worm… I mean mole.
Eric Schmidt’s definition of terms and my definition of terms are about 180 degrees off.
I respected Eric a looong time back, but I really never want to hear his name again.
The history of patents in the U.S. suggests that patents actually spur innovation by everything I’ve read and done.
On major technology items, it is not unusual to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make a new technology actually get to market between development costs and factories.
If you can’t successfully earn back that investment plus a profit, why innovate?
I don’t know I read the article and never saw the word ‘bully’ used in his statements. Did I miss it or this more bullshit ‘journalism’?