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Eric Schmidt on Google Now for iOS: 'You'll Need to Discuss That With Apple' [Updated]
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I think since almost everyone saw the progression from iPhone unveiling to Android, unfold in reality, right in front of their eyes, that your question can only come from one of two places:
1. You were off-planet for the last 8-9 years.
2. Radiation from your Android device is causing you short to medium term memory loss.
Poodle was only doing a very public, quasi Symbian-Blackberry knock off with Android. Apple totally smoked the entire industry with the iPhone/iOS introduction and then SUDDENLY, Google is doing the exact same thing. Soon after Schmidt is no longer enjoying a box seat at Apple's royal court.
I think it's also telling that after floundering with the knock-off, Schmidt was out from the top spot at Google less than two years later. Two big super business whiffs for Uncle Bingo, in a very short time. My own suspicions, experience and gargantuan intellect, tell me that there are only three possible reasons Page & Gollum keep him around:
1. He knows where all the bodies are buried.
2. They need him to balance the books, fill out the right tax forms, or something of an entirely bureaucratic nature, and he knows where all the bodies are buried.
3. Wall St. would revolt if the clown twins were solely running the show, and he knows where all the bodies are buried.
I think it's poor judgement for Google to keep him around, better to distance themselves from the Apple idea knock-off. Also if he's willing to cheat one of his business relationships, it's in his character to cheat others, so how can they trust him?
So... other than their 'iOS' type phone thing, Poodle has so many incredibly 'original' and 'innovative' ideas like... wait never mind, the radiation memory-loss thing, you'll just forget them anyway.
Why did schmidt leave the board again ? I forgot.
He stole the iPhone concept then left to make a competing device based on a stolen linux kernel.
I mean, why wouldn't you believe someone who an FBI report found to be 'a deceptive individual'
I heard Schmidt took all the green M&Ms out of the board room dishes and that's the real reason Jobs went thermonuclear.
What terms did violate Google Voice? There were third party Google Voice apps in the app store before Google tried to publish theirs.
In the FCC investigation At&t was cleared of any pressure against GV
So many theories, such little proof! Schmidt was on the board AFTER android was in development!
How come Google has never been sued by Apple for this so called "theft"?
google purchased android while schmidt was on the Apple board.
Google now will be a neat feature, but nowhere near as useful as on android where's it's integrated so wonderfully. Apple might have to worry about the bad headlines again. Siri vs. Now. Google Now destroys siri when it's on a an android. But on an iphone, people might just push it off to the side and forget about it, like siri.
-sent from my iphone 4S
-sent from my iphone 4S
What is the wrong one? That is the official Google Voice app. Are you confusing the Google Voice service to the Google Search app that supports voice commands? Google Voice has nothing to do with Google Now or voice commands.
Google purchased Android on the 17th August 2005
Eric Schmidt was appointed to the Apple board on the 28th August 2006.
Wrong - I'm pretty sure Google bought Android in 2005. Schmidt joined Apple in 2006. Google was already backing Android before they purchased it.
Seems like a lot of work for something most developers would opt out of.
Isn't it easier for the developers who would like people to know they have an app in review to, um... tell their current/potential customers?
And the facts are where? Please don't link to commentary by Steve Jobs or other blogs that are spouting conspiracy theories. Please link to documentation that clearly states Eric Schmidt stole anything.
I love this conversation that comes up pretty regularly on here. Just love it
Don't think it was stolen, influenced yes, stolen no. However it is hard to fathom they came up with the then current look and feel for android given the early demo pieces Google was looking at ala blackberry style, then after the so called meeting with the BOD at apple.......
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Why did schmidt leave the board again ? I forgot.
He stole the iPhone concept then left to make a competing device based on a stolen linux kernel.
You forgot to add in those stolen video codecs.
Also, remember when IMAP was a great technology that Google Microsoft'd into Gmail, the Hotmail version of IMAP?
Microsoft'd - verb
Definition: To arbitrarily alter an emerging technology platform into a slightly different knock-off, for the sole purpose of trying to disrupt the emerging technology platform.
See also: Copycats, Jive.
If you believe Jobs the you don't have anything against Schmidt because Jobs always praised him, even after his resignation from the board.
So, what he steal? Or you're only slandering?
Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005 (think it was sometime in July of that year actually)
Schmidt was elected to Apple's board of directors on August 28, 2006
dang I was late as someone has already pointed this out and a bit off
but
HA!
So many theories, such little proof! Schmidt was on the board AFTER android was in development!
How come Google has never been sued by Apple for this so called "theft"?
Android was meant as a competitor to Blackberry, Symbian and of course Windows Mobile.
Google was afraid that a dominating Windows Mobile might cut them off from search revenue, because as Windows Mobile is a product by Microsoft -> Bing (or whatever it was named at that time).
When Apple developed the iPhone, Google had to shift its target for Android, because the iPhone destroyed all the mobile OS that have been there before it's introduction.
A competitor to Blackberry, Symbian or Windows Mobile had become worthless, a thing of the pre-iPhone times.
Google had to re-design Android and guess what they used as the new target.
Schmidt being on Apple's board has helped Google, because that way they knew about key features of iPhone OS three months prior to everyone else - and then they had this kind of insight until 2009, when Schmidt had to leave the board.
This path of developement is also the reason why Android had such a laggy GUI all the time - because it wasn't planned with hardware-accelerated graphics in mind.
Ah, you're only joking because that nonsense can't be said by any person with more than 5 years.
What stolen Linux kernel?
Peace has already been proven wrong in his assertion based on his lack of understanding of the timeline.
And yet - somehow he will move the goalpost of divert the conversation in another way to try and prove his point. But it will be transparent to anyone paying attention.