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Those are truly tame quotes. They could go far stronger and I wouldn't think it's a bad thing. Google should give as hard as it gets. Apple dishes it out very

• sgentle 16y ago
  I suppose I should clarify. I like competition, and I think it's great that Google's driving a tank through the ol' walled garden Apple's got going. It's not that their comments are unkind or harsh that gets me, it's that they're weak. Some of the things that have come out of I/O this year have been serious jaw-droppers. Wifi tethering, wireless sync, Flash, speed boosts akimbo, and most of all, this feeling of "everything just works together everywhere" that you don't get with Apple's equivalent. That's the king hit. That's the brown trousers moment. "Hey, Apple, heard of the internet?" just sounds to me like impotent nerdrage. For what it's worth, I think the speech at the start was spot on. ("If we don't act, we face a Draconian future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our future. That's a future that we don't want.")