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Redmond Yawning at Apple-Google Alliance?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the much-ado-about-something dept.

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. I agree, this article is tiresome by twitter · · Score: 0, Troll
    What adult writes like this?

    Someone who loves M$, apparently. The summary about Microsoft's "seat" and the "Microsoft haters" and "upstarts" who would have taken their chair makes me think of the movie Tombstone or Steve Ballmer's famous chair throwing temper tantrum. Don't bother to read the article because there's nothing more there but the same kind of embarrassing nonsense. The author apparently thinks that it's OK to steal and lock down other people's innovative ideas, sue public schools and all the other villiany that comes from M$ and that no rational person should mind the abuse because M$ is eternal. So it is with WinTel fanboys everywhere and that is nothing new.

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  2. Re:Slashdot lies. by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 0, Troll

    the linux and bsd zealotry that is just as prevalent on places like slashdot

    Aaaaah, but the Mac guys combine their zealotry with cluelessness. It's really annoying.

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  3. Re:this article is tiresome by chief604 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm sorry folks, but Apple is a loser and Google is a winner. Besides the iPod, Apple is a fine silver-medal-winning Carl Lewis, to the Ben Johnson (cheating, yes) Microsoft.

    but Google has rocked out Gmail (which sends free SMS to my cell), Gcalender - reminders to cell, writely - save to pdf, spreadsheetsdot - doesn't lose my fucking spreadsheets, Gmaps - nuf said, Gnews, which are going to give Ballmer a fucking stroke.

    Google would be foolish to hook up with a loser. It would be like Adrian Brody doing an action thriller with William H. Macey.