Redmond Yawning at Apple-Google Alliance?

Debra D'Agostino writes "Despite the media hype around Google CEO Eric Schmidt's appointment to Apple's board, CIO Insight Executive Editor Dan Briody says it's not that big a story. 'Apple and Google are already plenty tight,' he says. Arthur Levinson, CEO of Genentech, has been on both boards for years. And Al Gore and Intuit Chairman Bill Campbell are both Apple board members and advisors to Google. 'While it's fun to speculate about what an Apple-Google alliance could produce (GoogleMacs? MacGoogle? GoogleTunes?) this move is far from an alliance,' Briody writes. 'And even if it were, it wouldn't be first time that two upstart powerhouses have joined forces in an attempt to unseat Microsoft. Remember AOL-Netscape? Boy, they just steamrolled the team from Redmond, didn't they?'"

Comments

Re:MS Threat

[ColdWetDog]

How do we check maps now? We go to googlemaps.com. It doesn't matter what OS you use for this.

The internet is making whole classes of applications that used to be OS-specific OS-independent. Yes, there will always be some programs that are better to do local, but a) there aren't that many of those. b) eventually, there will be good open source replacements for all such apps*.

Cool. Google is going to write a high end graphics application like Photoshop for the web? And all my Windows specific graphics utilities (that aren't even on the Mac)? Do me a favor and email me when you see it. Thanks.