Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Claims Google's Relationship With Apple Has Improved

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Posted July 12, 2013 at 2:17am by iClarified

Google's chairman Eric Schmidt claims that Google and Apple's relationship has improved after many meetings.

"These are two proud, well-run, different companies."

Schmidt was talking at the Allen and Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho where tech moguls gather annually. Google and Apple used to be very close as CEO Steve Jobs and Schmidt knew each other for decades. In fact, Schmidt was on Apple's board until Google released Android OS and become the iPhone's rival.

In Steve Job's biography, Jobs reportedly said he would "spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

Tim Cook was also at the event while Schmidt was on stage, however Cook was not in the room. Cook instead was grabbing a cup of coffee.

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gamerscul9870 - July 13, 2013 at 4:41am

Words spoken from a true man, thank you jobs, fuck anyone here saying apple's screwed like the ones below.

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Bugged Out - July 12, 2013 at 5:03pm

Whatever. No company with more than a dozen employees is ethical. Their goal, as required by society, is making money. Nothing else. Quit trying to make one evil and one good; there is no such thing as evil or good, just money.

Ian - July 12, 2013 at 3:24pm

I always find it rather funny when the whole "Schmidt stock Apple's idea" comments are made. The basic framework is nothing if not just simple icons, already done in windows based systems all the way back to 3.1. The iPhone and Android phone's 'desktop' and switching was developed on the desktop first by Linux programmers, Apple / Android simply changed the platform to mobile devices. Desktop/Icon Transparency, exactly the same, developed for Linux OS for the desktop. Apps, co-developed for the Symbian OS. Another product 'stolen' by iOS / Android. All these things were stolen, the difference is, they were made better, so where is the problem?

harley david - July 12, 2013 at 2:58pm

i guess the last guy alive.. wins..

Perry - July 12, 2013 at 2:45pm

The irony is that Tim Cook (with iOS 7) is actually going to destroy Apple. Time to get on the Android or Blackberry bandwagons, because Apple is going down Tim's toilet.

Evil Twins - July 12, 2013 at 12:26pm

Google absolutely screwed Apple. The irony however is that Apple is 100% of the same behaviour with its own countless patent infringements. But this doesn't mean that it deserved what it got, it means that everyone that engages in this sort of behaviour (Google, Apple, et cetera) should be held accountable. Word.

Evil Twins - July 12, 2013 at 12:28pm

Oh, and if you don't know what I'm talking about, in terms of Apple infringing on others' patents, you can Google it! Now that's the ultimate irony indeed! ha ha ha.

Bigjoe - July 12, 2013 at 9:14am

So much for improved relations when Tim Cook would spend his time in the coffee room drinking a latté rather thank listen to this thief called Schmidt!

Stevles - July 12, 2013 at 4:18am

rexology - July 12, 2013 at 4:41am

The man's already gone, he's passed away. No need to wish so much negativity towards a man who wanted nothing but the best for a company he nurtured. Yeah, don't get me wrong, that line in the book is pretty over the top. But, think of it as a father figure, who finds out his youngest daughter was abused by someone, there's no other better time to be passionate and say these things.

Pachi - July 12, 2013 at 3:49am

Ideas are stolen. What else do u need? Google is an ethic-less company as truly said in the British parliament.

Stay_Metal420 - July 12, 2013 at 3:31am

I still don't see how it's stolen property.. The two OS's are very unalike.

Nitro Junkie - July 12, 2013 at 2:45am

He looks like coffee cake from the movie The Bronx Tale.

Timmy - July 12, 2013 at 2:33am

I don't think people truly realise just how badly Eric Schmidt raped Apple.