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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: Competition Between Apple and Google is More Brutal Than Ever

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Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and former SVP of products, Jonathan Rosenberg, recently published a new book entitled "How Google Works, which explores topics like corporate culture, strategy, talent, innovation, dealing with disruption, and more. The duo have done an interview with Bloomberg to promote the title, with Schmidt commenting on the state of affairs between iOS and Google and Apple's new larger-screened iPhones.

According to Schmidt, competition between Apple and Google is more brutal than ever before, with "enormous, enormous racing" going on between the two companies, which ultimately has "enormous benefits for consumers worldwide."

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In fact I would say that this brutal competition between Apple and Google over Android and iOS has enormous benefits for consumers worldwide. If you look at the innovation on the Apple side and on the Google side, that competition which I think is the defining fight of the computer industry, it benefits global at the billions of people level.
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When questioned about how he feels driving past an Apple Store and seeing people lined up around the block to purchase an iPhone, Schmidt said "I'll tell you what I think. Samsung had these products a year ago." The interviewer further notes that nobody "had a huge party" and Schmidt reiterated that Samsung had larger phones first once again. "I think Samsung had the products a year ago. That's what I think."

Re/code has also published a short excerpt from "How Google Works," where Schmidt writes about a meeting he had with former Apple CEO Steve Jobs in 2010. During the meeting, Jobs made it clear that he believed Android was based on Apple's intellectual property, and Schmidt worried that a dispute was brewing.
The two had sat outside at the California-cuisine-oriented cafe, discussing Google's growing mobile operating system, Android. Steve was convinced that the open-source operating system was built on intellectual property created by Apple. Eric responded that we hadn't used Apple's IP and had in fact built Android on our own. But his argument was to no avail. "They are going to fight us," he thought.
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The excerpt goes on to detail the friendship between Jobs and Schmidt and the release of the iPhone in 2007, which led to Schmidt stepping down from Apple's board due to the similarities between iOS and Android. It also covers the differences between Apple's closed system compared to Google's open system, and why both methods work.
Apple's control model works not just because of Steve Jobs's excellence, but also because of how he organized the company. At Apple -- just like Google -- the leaders are product people with technical backgrounds. When you build a team of great, smart creatives, and put the world's uber-smart creative in charge, then you have a good chance of being right most of the time. And when you are right most of the time, then a highly controlled model can yield tremendous innovation.
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Schmidt and Rosenberg's full 15 minute Bloomberg interview contains additional details on the relationship between Google and Apple and is well worth watching. Their new book, "How Google Works," can be ordered on Amazon for $24.

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Competition is to see which company can make the crappiest products.

Apple has been been on track lately making crap with the bendgate, updategate, ios8 gate.

No wonder the competition is brutal
 
When questioned about how he feels driving past an Apple Store and seeing people lined up around the block to purchase an iPhone, Schmidt said "I'll tell you what I think. Samsung had these products a year ago." The interviewer further notes that nobody "had a huge party" and Schmidt reiterated that Samsung had larger phones first once again. "I think Samsung had the products a year ago. That's what I think."
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The best part XD.

The talking points bro, just the talking points please.
 
Google is great search engine, and the maps are pretty good. However Android leaves a lot to be desired, to me in anyway.
 
"Samsung had these products a year ago"

I don't seem to remember a high end android phone as thin, lite and with a build quality like the iphone 6.
 
The guy even looks like a looser. Not quite sure how Steve managed to have moments of such bad taste. The only thing he has right is that competition from Google is a good thing to make Apple spank their rear end harder.
 
Solver said:
I don't seem to remember a high end google phone as thin, lite and with a build quality like the iphone 6.
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Build quality? Are you kidding me? The f.ing phone bends in the pocket.
The last well built iphone was the 4s.
 
No matter how much we deride the brands we don't favor, we benefit from the competition they provide.

When one company provides Feature X first, they trumpet that fact. When a competitor then adds Feature X they have a chance to do a better job, and boast about that.

Either way, we get the feature and the feature improves over time.
 
Apple Search

It is only a matter of time before Apple launches "Apple Search" and makes it default

I give it ~ 2 years. Likely, via several M&A purchases (including DuckDuckGo)

And when that happens, Google is going to take and immediate 20%-25% hit to it's revenue
 
Even though Samsung had larger phones earlier...nobody lined up for them.

You can't blame Schmidt though. No other company can build up hype and coverage like Apple.

What's he supposed to say? "I wish people lined up for Android devices like they do Apple."
 
Steve was convinced that the open-source operating system was built on intellectual property created by Apple. Eric responded that we hadn't used Apple's IP and had in fact built Android on our own. But his argument was to no avail. "They are going to fight us," he thought.

SJ was subbon, you can't have a discussion with people like this, who think only in black and white.

Red Oak said:
It is only a matter of time before Apple launches "Apple Search" and makes it default
I give it ~ 2 years. Likely, via several M&A purchases (including DuckDuckGo)
And when that happens, Google is going to take and immediate 20%-25% hit to it's revenue
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If its anything like Apple Maps… no thanks.

All companies wish they could generate excitement and hype like Apple - and they do a damned good job - even if the products aren't cutting edge technology…
 
anyone who thinks the iPhone 6 is just a "bigger screen" and nothing else just doesn't get it .... However, I agree that competition is in this case good for consumers (and I assume Schmidt is just doing what he is payed for and pretends not to see the good stuff about the iPhone 6 )
 
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When questioned about how he feels driving past an Apple Store and seeing people lined up around the block to purchase an iPhone, Schmidt said "I'll tell you what I think. Samsung had these products a year ago." The interviewer further notes that nobody "had a huge party" and Schmidt reiterated that Samsung had larger phones first once again. "I think Samsung had the products a year ago. That's what I think."
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So why didn't people line up around the block for the Samsung phones a year ago, Eric? Will they line up for the new Note?
 
After the interview, Schmidt promptly took the interviewers private information and sold it to a third party.
 
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