Comments on: Should Google CEO stay on Apple’s board

By: Tim Yates

Tim Yates — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:04:17 +0000

I’m fairly confident that Apple will make the right decision. Truthfully, Apple and Google work so close together, I often wonder if they haven’t discussed a merger, and maybe they have and just don’t think it will pass approval from the FTC. So this is what you get. If there was any “evil” going on here, don’t you think Apple is smart enough to figure that out? Or, is Eric Schmidt so charismatic that that he could woo his way through life, NO, have you heard the man speak?

ChromeOS is not going after Mac sales, it’s going after the low-end market who would sell their souls to personal data miners just to feel as if they are part of the game. Apple competes with cheap and free right now and does very well.

Apple and Google are just fine. I really believe if they could merge, they would. It’s things like this that keep everyone else thinking they are competitors, when truly they are not. Which makes me think of the corporate version of gay marriage for some reason.

By: deowll

deowll — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:22:53 +0000

Android is and OS.

The Chrome OS is nothing more than an idea at least for now and unless they expand it way beyond what they promised it is going to about the lamest excuse for an OS that one can imagine.

I see this as going into ultra cheap netbooks with a small flash drive that phone companies can give away to su…customers that sign two year contracts.

By: Buzz

Buzz — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:26:14 +0000

Google + Apple is solid. Sure they overlap a tweak, but look how much better each is due to the association with the other. They’re roommates. Who cares which one got more test points in the last exam? They’re buds.

By: KMFIX

KMFIX — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:33:36 +0000

Bye bye Eric!

By: Greg Allen

Greg Allen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:01:48 +0000

I have to say, I have mixed feelings about the new Google OS.

On the positive side, I think Google is making the best software these days.

On the negative side: we are so screwed if Google goes evil. Those guys have ALL our personal information, forever archived on their servers.

By: Greg Allen

Greg Allen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:51:08 +0000

Chrome could be a killer app on the iPhone.

I don’t necessarily see a contradiction here.

By: orangetiki

orangetiki — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:28:07 +0000

I agree with qb. I don’t think that they are in direct competition with each other, but both working toward a better operating system / phone / whatever. If the iPhone was the ONLY touch screen phone on the market that you could get and make programs for yourself, it would seem a little like a niche. Having android out there shows that yes cell phones can be a viable computer in your pocket. All android vs iPhone does is push their ideals further and gives the consumer a choice. Nothing is wrong with that.

By: Furthermore

Furthermore — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:21:14 +0000

People in the capitalist class of America are so much in bed with one another, either via interlocking directorships like this Google/Apple thing or otherwise, that the system has become corrupt socialism-for-the-rich. They are against competition and have been for 100 years.

See here:
http://theyrule.net

By: Ron Larson

Ron Larson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:55:55 +0000

I find it ironic that Google is going after MS’s core product (Operating System) while Microsoft is going after Google’s core product (search).

Perhaps both should focus on their core competencies.

By: qb

qb — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:40:28 +0000

I think he’s an asset to the Apple store since he knows the competitive landscape better than anyone else on the board except Jobs. Everyone is looking at the products like phones and OS’s.

Look at their revenue streams and you’ll see very different companies.

By: jescott418

jescott418 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:34:05 +0000

I am thinking Google and Apple will part ways soon enough. If Google plans to start competing with Apple and Microsoft on the operating system front. Then I know Steve Jobs will have non of that. It would be like Steve Balmer being on Apple’s board. I think it would be clearly a conflict of interest. Since the Google OS is probably a year away I think their is time for a graceful exit.

By: Postman

Postman — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:26:02 +0000

Google has to be bitter that Apple sabatoged the new HTML specifications with that Ian “Hixie” Hixon guy planted in the w3c… Seemingly to destroy web standards and make them meaningless…

Either that, or the guy is utterly incompotent at his job in the w3c..