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Apple expanded the deal for its big upcoming product: the iPhone. When Mr. Jobs unveiled the iPhone in 2007, he invited Eric Schmidt, Google’s then chief executive, to join him onstage for the first of Apple’s many famous iPhone events.
“If we just sort of merged the two companies, we could just call them AppleGoo,” joked Mr. Schmidt, who was also on Apple’s board of directors. With Google search on the iPhone, he added, “you can actually merge without merging.”
- frou_dh 3y agoIt's interesting to consider that Google was a fairly young company when the original iPhone came out - only 8 years old.
- mrkramer 3y agoOnly 8 years old but already dominating web search industry. They destroyed AltaVista within like 5 years.
- tpmx 3y agoThe "web search industry" back then wasn't very large. AltaVista was kind of a PR project at DEC. It took Doubleclick's supposed reverse take-over of Google to crack the nut of how to make money from web search.