Did Google just "Microsoft" Apple?

[Rybold]

...well I just worry that some of the innovations Google makes for its own platform, that would have otherwise gone to the iPhone, might now not.

Exactly! And we are already seeing this. In the beta version of the Google Phone, Google Maps does MORE than what the Google Maps on the iPhone does -- it includes street-view photos. Some of you may not use or may not like street-view photos, but this is an example of something Google has developed and is adding to their own phone but withholding from the iPhone. It's in the software; when we use maps, it downloads the maps through 3G every time we use maps ... the photo-views are on Google's servers; not on the actual phone. It's not a matter of "we'll include it on the next iPhone."
(I do not know everything, so if someone knows something that I don't please inform me. thank you.)
Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticke...s-G1-First-Impressions?tickers=goog,aapl,t,vz

 

[elppa]

Didnt Apple and microsoft both essentially "steal" software and some hardware concepts from xerox?

This is a good read and explains it better.

What Xerox had was primitive compared to how the Mac turned out.

 

[Shagrat]

Google and Apple trust each other with a lot. Google wouldn't lose there name by ditching apple in anyway like that. There still developing for every mobile OS, like i think blackberry's street view came out last week for google maps, and the iPhone should shortly follow.

Like Google's Chrome is (for the near future, anyway) available for Windows, but not Mac os???

 

[arubinst]

In fact, Google's business is all about people using resources that generate money through ads.

It is a very clever idea to put Google inside peoples pockets with Android, so ad revenue continues to be produced on the go... but it is also clever to put Google in everyone's pockets, because this also produces money without any distinction of the platform on which the user is working.

Google doesn't want to sell you cell phones. They just want you to use their programs wherever you are.

And this means supporting as many devices and platforms as possible.

By the way, didn't you know that Eric Shmidt (Google's CEO) is also a member of the board of directors of Apple?

 

[IJ Reilly]

It's my fault; sorry if I was a bit harsh. I've been having a bad day, and I kind of took it out on you. Sorry man! And thanks for the information. I guess it's hard to tell where rumors end and truth begins in some cases! I just kind of feel like Apple's getting short ended, because they rely on Google quite a bit, and for Google to go and develop their own Android platform - well I just worry that some of the innovations Google makes for its own platform, that would have otherwise gone to the iPhone, might now not. Maybe I'm off base - I hope I am! I was just kind of thinking that this situation sort of reminded me of the Apple Microsoft era, where I was under the impression Microsoft was kind of working for Apple - developing the applications you listed - but at the same time was developing a rival platform. Kind of a paradoxical relationship, at least it seems that way to me anyway.

Not to worry.

When I think about this situation, I do see parallels between Google and Microsoft, but not directly involving Apple. I see Google attempting to create a vertically integrated market by locking in their dominance in services on the desktop and now extending them to the handheld market. They want everyone to be Googling no matter what device they are using. That's hardly a shocking goal for a company that is after all in the business of making money, but like Microsoft's similar dominance of desktop computing, which they extended with software into other markets, I wonder if this is really a good thing for consumers. Okay, to be perfectly honest, I'm pretty sure it's a bad thing for one company to be so dominant in multiple markets.