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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?'"

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  1. this article is tiresome by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    These are exciting times for Microsoft Haters. Google is growing in strength, serving up online ads by the bucket, even making headway in the corporate software market.

    What adult writes like this?

    Blogs are the new Op-Ed page, only with no journalistic standards.

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    The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
  2. so... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    apple is an upstart now?

  3. Re:Slashdot lies. by MustardMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've never known a mac user to be outright stupid

    As a mac user myself, who reads and posts on many mac-centric websites....

    You obviously haven't looked very hard. I've seen apple fanbois who would brag about the opportunity to bend over and have steve jobs fuck them in the ass with a baseball bat with the letters "DRM" spelled out in razor blades.

  4. Re:Slashdot lies. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This illustrates the need for a moderation class of +1: Vivid and Disturbing Image.

  5. MacGoogle by jx100 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comes with a mullet, a swiss army knife, some little toy magnets, a straw, a rubber band, a paperclip, and a couple wires.

    You make the computer yourself, or the bad guys get away.

  6. I love this by shaneh0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The guy calls someone a douche bag and it's moderated "redundant." That's gotta be a blow to the GP's self-esteem. It's so self-evident that he's a douche that it's redundant to actually say it.