RSS Feed (xml)Apple-Google ties seem to be increasingly going downhill. The attacks by the two companies on each other are getting nastier. With Apple
"We did not enter the search business," Jobs told Apple employees, according to an article in NewYork Times. "Make no mistake Google wants to kill the iPhone. We won't let them," said Jobs shortly after the public introduction of iPad.
The relationship between the two companies has been in rough weather for some time.
The recent introduction of Google's own handset Nexus One further jarred the relationship. Nexus One, which runs on Google's own mobile operating system Android, has put the company in direct competition with Apple.
Apple too this month sued Taiwan's HTC Corp, which makes touchscreen smartphones using Google software and introduced first Google phone. Apple has accused HTC of infringing 20 hardware and software patents related to the iPhone.
Even though the suit did not name Google as a defendant, Apple's move is viewed by many analysts as proxy for an attack on the Internet company.
Similarly, though for now, Google is the default search engine on Apple iPhone, there are speculations that Apple might go for Google's biggest foe Microsoft's Bing as the default search engine on its computing slate iPad.
The two companies are also said to have also fought over acquisitions. In November 2009, Google announced its $750 million acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob. According to some reports, Apple too had made a $600 million bid for AdMob.
In January Apple acquired another mobile advertising firm, Quattro Wireless, for $300 million.
The growing straining of ties also lead to Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigning from Apple's board in August 2009.
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