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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Says Relationship with Apple 'Improving'

Maybe it was done out of spite but I think Apple dropping Google services from iOS was a good move for everyone (including consumers). If Apple really wanted to be dicks about it they could ban Google from non-jailbroken devices, but the fact you can still go and download Google Maps or YouTube, or Google Now for your Siri functionality, means that Google has to compete just like everyone else. Meanwhile, I actually like Apple Maps more than Google Maps. I find it's way easier to search in Apple Maps (especially if there's multiple locations with the same name), and I haven't personally run into any location issues myself.

Switching to Bing for Siri - well, I don't care and I doubt most people do. I don't think anyone can *really* argue that Apple is shirking their responsibilities to provide the best for their consumers. They might genuinely believe Bing produces better results for Siri for all we know.

Those are my $0.02 on that.
 
Er just a thought

newyorksole said:
Tim Cook the peacemaker.
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The colt pistol was called the peacemaker due to its reliable firing and cylinder rotation. Also its cost was low enough so everyone could have one.

Tim Cook, killer of the clones ???
Tim Cook, sheriff of smart devices??
 
samcraig said:
Do you want a list of quotes every CEO has said that didn't wind up true? Please. As if Schmidt is any more or less guilty of promoting his company as a CEO should...positively...
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Wow. Look who hasn't caught up yet.
Mr. Schmidt is Google's executive chairman now. Kicked upstairs.
Larry Page is now CEO.

Of course, Mr. Page has spewed forth his fair share of zingers.
For example, in a Fortune magazine article:

I think for us our strength comes from working with everybody, but we also need to make sure we’re serving our end users with a really great experience and that we provide that detailed information to people. Sometimes those things will be complicated.
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LOL at "working with everybody." He should have said "copying great ideas, shipping freeware that copies those ideas and destroys competitors, then dropping that freeware if it doesn't make enough money for us." You know, like Google Reader.

Reference: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/12/11/larry-page/

And, of course, there is Mr. Page's classic faux-Kumbaya moment at this year's Google I/O:

We should be building great things that don’t exist. Being negative isn’t how we make progress. Most important things are not zero sum, there is a lot of opportunity out there.
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"...great things that don't exist." Oh really. Let's go down the list:

Google search? Um, no. AltaVista, Lycos, Excite!, etc. already existed.

Google Maps? Nope, MapQuest, Yahoo maps, etc. already existed.

Gmail? Oh please. Webmail had been around for many years already.

Android? Lulz. Originally a bad copy of BlackBerry OS. Now a bad copy of iOS.

Google TV? HD + broadband mutant clone of WebTV. Cloned all of WebTV's usability mistakes too.

Google Plus? Facebook has been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

Reference: http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/05/15/google-glass/

On second thought, maybe I should take Android, Google TV, and Google Plus
off that list. None of them are "great things."
 
iBug2 said:
Actually this says more about you than them. Your hatred towards those people seem to be quite a lot that makes you say something as silly as this.

Some google services are indeed overrated, which doesn't mean they are bad but means that without them the web would still go on since others also offer similar services. I mean how many sane people here would think that google+ is a must have?
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Nice try, but you have failed in that.

By the way, the op is not talking about some services but all of them, starting with search and maps.
 
SockRolid said:
Wow. Look who hasn't caught up yet.
Mr. Schmidt is Google's executive chairman now. Kicked upstairs.
Larry Page is now CEO.

Of course, Mr. Page has spewed forth his fair share of zingers.
For example, in a Fortune magazine article:



LOL at "working with everybody." He should have said "copying great ideas, shipping freeware that copies those ideas and destroys competitors, then dropping that freeware if it doesn't make enough money for us." You know, like Google Reader.

Reference: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/12/11/larry-page/

And, of course, there is Mr. Page's classic faux-Kumbaya moment at this year's Google I/O:



"...great things that don't exist." Oh really. Let's go down the list:

Google search? Um, no. AltaVista, Lycos, Excite!, etc. already existed.

Google Maps? Nope, MapQuest, Yahoo maps, etc. already existed.

Gmail? Oh please. Webmail had been around for many years already.

Android? Lulz. Originally a bad copy of BlackBerry OS. Now a bad copy of iOS.

Google TV? HD + broadband mutant clone of WebTV. Cloned all of WebTV's usability mistakes too.

Google Plus? Facebook has been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

Reference: http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/05/15/google-glass/

On second thought, maybe I should take Android, Google TV, and Google Plus
off that list. None of them are "great things."
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For me, Google has two services I use. Google Drive and Google Search App for iOS (Not desktop, which is Bing for me)

Other than that, no Google service is indispensable.

As soon as Microsoft makes a decent Bing app, and iWork for iCloud is released, the only remaining Google service I'll probably have is my casual gmail account.

As for Google Maps, I dumped that back on September 19, 2012 and haven't look back.
 
SockRolid said:
Wow. Look who hasn't caught up yet.
Mr. Schmidt is Google's executive chairman now. Kicked upstairs.
Larry Page is now CEO.

Of course, Mr. Page has spewed forth his fair share of zingers.
For example, in a Fortune magazine article:



LOL at "working with everybody." He should have said "copying great ideas, shipping freeware that copies those ideas and destroys competitors, then dropping that freeware if it doesn't make enough money for us." You know, like Google Reader.

Reference: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/12/11/larry-page/

And, of course, there is Mr. Page's classic faux-Kumbaya moment at this year's Google I/O:



"...great things that don't exist." Oh really. Let's go down the list:

Google search? Um, no. AltaVista, Lycos, Excite!, etc. already existed.

Google Maps? Nope, MapQuest, Yahoo maps, etc. already existed.

Gmail? Oh please. Webmail had been around for many years already.

Android? Lulz. Originally a bad copy of BlackBerry OS. Now a bad copy of iOS.

Google TV? HD + broadband mutant clone of WebTV. Cloned all of WebTV's usability mistakes too.

Google Plus? Facebook has been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

Reference: http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/05/15/google-glass/

On second thought, maybe I should take Android, Google TV, and Google Plus
off that list. None of them are "great things."
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Ok. Clearly I typed too quickly and wasn't thinking. But you know what - you missed the point. But then you proceed to go on an anti-google tirade. Color me shocked.
 
SandboxGeneral said:
I agree they should work to solve their corporate disputes, but do you really think each CEO is down on the R&D and production floors of their respective companies doing the actual work? I don't think their disputes are holding up anything with the exception of any court injunctions.
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sure they aren't working in the R&D departments but both companies are fighting over important features, features which would make our devices look, work and interact better.
 
Zaphodsplanet said:
Those of you who awe and oh about Google kiss your private information goodbye. I remember ranting and raving about google long before anyone knew who they were. My bad, they've proven themselves to be even worse than Gates and Balmer with your personal information. They're in bed with the government so if you are happy to bend over and grab your ankles for your google government by all means knock yourself out.

I've got a new tag line for Google

Google, We make technology creepy.

Eric is a traitor..... which is why Jobs probably hated his guts. Don't trust anything out of this commies mouth. De-google your mac as much as possible... that's what I've done and quite frankly.... I'm starting to like my macs even more, I didn't know that was possible.
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rockarollr said:
Eric Schmidt is a d*uche-nozzle - plain and simple.

I have an idea... just wait until the man's dead to talk ***** about him and the way he handled his business. Because that's certainly the "adult way" to handle things. And because Jobs, you know, was such a failure and all... :rolleyes:
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You two must have a love affair with Apple. Cause you both sound pathetic with the way you hate Google. Get a life! :rolleyes:

While you're getting lives, seek professional help. Seriously ;)

The only thing scary are Apple fans who think they're Apples warriors.
 
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:3 BTW Guys, eric schmidt didn't make android, Google bought it, and hired the creators, it was not Google, so no Eric shouldn't have resigned.
 
It's not easy to forgive and forget that Eric Schmidt sat on Apple's Board of Directors, listening to Apple's ideas of an iPhone and iPad... and then went back to Google the next day and chose to do the same exact thing.

I am still surprised that Apple did not sue Eric Schmidt personally for breaking his NDA while being appointed to the BoD. Of course, it was stupid of Apple to even have Eric on their Board to begin with.

Because of Eric's lack of ethics, I will NEVER buy a Google product or use Google's services in any way!
 
SockRolid said:
Wow. Look who hasn't caught up yet.
Mr. Schmidt is Google's executive chairman now. Kicked upstairs.
Larry Page is now CEO.

Of course, Mr. Page has spewed forth his fair share of zingers.
For example, in a Fortune magazine article:



LOL at "working with everybody." He should have said "copying great ideas, shipping freeware that copies those ideas and destroys competitors, then dropping that freeware if it doesn't make enough money for us." You know, like Google Reader.

Reference: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/12/11/larry-page/

And, of course, there is Mr. Page's classic faux-Kumbaya moment at this year's Google I/O:



"...great things that don't exist." Oh really. Let's go down the list:

Google search? Um, no. AltaVista, Lycos, Excite!, etc. already existed.

Google Maps? Nope, MapQuest, Yahoo maps, etc. already existed.

Gmail? Oh please. Webmail had been around for many years already.

Android? Lulz. Originally a bad copy of BlackBerry OS. Now a bad copy of iOS.

Google TV? HD + broadband mutant clone of WebTV. Cloned all of WebTV's usability mistakes too.

Google Plus? Facebook has been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

Reference: http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/05/15/google-glass/

On second thought, maybe I should take Android, Google TV, and Google Plus
off that list. None of them are "great things."
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Man I love reading the internet-equivalent of a roid-induced rant.
 
but this is how microsoft has "developed" almost all of their products.... kinda like the windows os they stole from apple.

Amazing Iceman said:
I remember back in the days when Microsoft became a 'good friend' of Citrix, and then 'legally stole' part of their revolutionary Remote Desktop technology, being only able to keep their ICA technology away from Microsoft.

:eek:

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My complements to the most pointless post ever. :D
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Good. I love google apps and hopefully this will allow them to make even better apps for IOS. I think apple knows their cloud services aren't doing as well with all the outages etc and realized after maps that people like google and will use it on their iPhones regardless if apple hates them or not.
 
NOS2U said:
I guess Google has noticed the drop in the usage of their search engine- With Apple and Microsoft making Bing the default search engine.
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Bwahahaha. Yea, that's probably it. Google's search market share has tanked because an unreleased beta OS with users numbering in the thousands has made Bing the default.

Who really goes in changes the default anyway? Maybe 5% of people that buy devices with Microsoft and Apple as the OS I'm guessing.
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How did you come up with your one in twenty figure?
 
Technarchy said:
For me, Google has two services I use. Google Drive and Google Search App for iOS (Not desktop, which is Bing for me)

Other than that, no Google service is indispensable.

As soon as Microsoft makes a decent Bing app, and iWork for iCloud is released, the only remaining Google service I'll probably have is my casual gmail account.

As for Google Maps, I dumped that back on September 19, 2012 and haven't look back.
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Agree. Except that I don't use Google Drive or the Google Search app for iOS.

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samcraig said:
Ok. Clearly I typed too quickly and wasn't thinking. But you know what - you missed the point. But then you proceed to go on an anti-google tirade. Color me shocked.
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Ok. Clearly I typed too quickly.

I'll be more concise next time.

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chugg said:
Man I love reading the internet-equivalent of a roid-induced rant.
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Welcome to MacRumors.
 
Just for the record, Eric Schmidt also flat out lied and said that Google Search w/ Google Now was ready for approval in the App Store and was proven to be a liar so his word means less than dirt.
 
Taking into consideration the slim chance that any of us on the outside will ever know the truth, we are getting "news" which is typically filtered, I read these reports with the entertainment factor in mind. Somewhere between the printed words of articles or reports like this is the truth. It's relevancy is of little consequence since we are the end users with our own set of preferences and priorities. I simply don't give a flip about who said what to whom. That's their day to day drivel which transcends the issues of importance to me.

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Renzatic said:
Also rumor has it he eats babies when he's not busy killing orphans for fun and taking credit for all of Steve Job's accomplishments.
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Steve who ? :eek:
 
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