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Google’s Schmidt Joins Apple

Alex Oughton

By Alex Oughton

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Yesterday brought news that Google’s Chief Executive Officer, Eric Schmidt, has been appointed to Apple’s board.

 

Steve Jobs has been quoted as saying “We look forward to his contributions as a member of Apple’s board of directors. Like Apple, Google is very focused on innovation and we think Eric’s insights and experience will be very valuable in helping to guide Apple in the years ahead.”

 

The move suggests a growing alliance between the two companies, as Schmidt joins Apple- a company he describes as “one of the companies in the world I most admire”.

 

Schmidt became Google CEO in 2001, after previously working for both Novell and Sun.

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drcreek
Does this mean we'll get a gtalk voice chat app soon? :)

 

 

No! they'll add gmail, Gcal & Gtalk support into mail.app, iCal & iChat. I hope. i"m fed up of a program for each service.

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thekyle

i was thinking and it would be great to have some sort of syncing with gmail so it could be used as an internet harddrive like .mac apple could really take advantage of googles massive amounts of storage..but if anything we might get to see some of their lab applications ported to google sooner

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dtm3dd

GREAT NEWS!

It really reinforces this alliance that people have been wondering about - remember the keynote:

"All they can do is copy Google and Apple"

Hmmmmm.......

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REVENGE

I could see a Google-Apple alliance working very well to the aladvantage of both compaies [against microsoft of course].

 

 

 

 

 

Btw, I;m posting thi in ie 7+ and I cant see a damn thing in the dialogue box. I have to check preveiw post to see whats going on.

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Forky

Perhaps Google OS will be MAC OS??

 

Who knows what will pop out of here, millions of babies i see...

 

i know this question is off topic but iChat doesnt allow MSN(Yeh MS thing)

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Darwinian Dude

I smell the scent of a .Mac replacement... Hope I'm right! With Microsoft having .Mac like abilities with their upcoming LifeDrive, free, Google have the resources and tecnology with their GMail storage etc to make a .Mac service.

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drcreek
Gmail works with mail, and iCal can sync with gcal. Back and forth editing would be nice.

 

Yeah i already have both set up :)

 

I just wish that if i edited something in iCal it uploaded it to gcal also address book syncing would be nice.

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dtm3dd

Wow - I like the idea of a google .mac replacement.

Im not sure Google OS would be MacOS but perhaps it would be the first OS to be offered by Apple on a Mac other than MacOS - Who knows.

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