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Google / Apple fist-fight is about the biggest story in tech, and will likely impact the next few decades of dev! The two principals meeting in public without
by aresant 17y ago
Google / Apple fist-fight is about the biggest story in tech, and will likely impact the next few decades of dev!
The two principals meeting in public without Steve's hands wringing Eric's neck is a real story.
- mapleoin 17y agoI dunno, maybe I'm more romantic, but my kind of programming celebrities appear in mailing list text-only posts rather than paparazzi pictures.
- bad_user 17y ago10 years from now when I'll look back at this, I don't want to remember Steve and Schmith "sitting in a tree" ... all I want are the facts ... what company released what, with what impact and what was the retaliation from the other competitor. I understand that News are either about things you can use right now or about things that keep you entertained. But boy, the preferences of people for entertainment is getting really weird lately. Too bad geeks aren't into clothes fashion, otherwise we'd be talking about Steve's shoes right now ... oh wait :)
- jrockway 17y agoI've never seen Eric Schmidt as being particularly loyal to the Google cause. Not like Jobs is to Apple, anyway. My imagination writes their dialogue as "Sure, we'll kill Android. If it makes someone mad, maybe we shouldn't be doing it." But I am just a little cynical...