Tag Archive | "Eric Schmidt"
“Steve Jobs simply hates Eric Schmidt”
Check out this interesting video clip via CNBC where Jim Goldman (who has a solid track record of Apple inside info) says that Steve Jobs just flat out hates Eric Schmidt, presumably not just because of Android, but because Jobs views Schmidt as having stabbed him in the back - what with him being on [...]
Continue reading...Behind Google and Apple’s growing and heated rivalry
Monday, March 15, 2010
Apple and Google have been on the outs for a few months now, and with Apple taking a jab at Google’s Android OS via their lawsuit against HTC, it doesn’t seem like the 2 tech heavyweights will be best buds again anytime soon. In a fascinating article from this past weekend, the New York Time chronicles [...]
Continue reading...Despite growing rivalry, Google CEO Eric Schmidt still has a special place for Apple in his heart
Saturday, January 23, 2010
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Following a report that Apple is considering making Microsoft’s Bing the default search engine on the iPhone, Jim Goldman, citing a source familiar with the situation, said that Steve Jobs hates Google CEO, and former Apple board member, Eric Schmidt. And given Apple and Google’s growing rivalry over the past few months, this shouldn’t come [...]
Continue reading...FTC applauds Schmidt resignation from Apple board, but will continue on with its investigation
Monday, August 3, 2009
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Apple announced today that Google CEO Eric Schmidt voluntarily resigned from his position on Apple’s Board of Directors. Now you might think that this would quell the FTC’s investigation into the close ties shared between Apple and Google, but you’d be wrong. In response to Schmidt’s resignation, the FTC, which has been investigating the Apple/Google relationship [...]
Continue reading...Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors
Monday, August 3, 2009
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In a press release issued today, Apple announced that Google CEO Eric Schmidt voluntarily resigned from his position on Apple’s Board of Directors. CUPERTINO, California—August 3, 2009—Apple® today announced that Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, is resigning from Apple’s Board of Directors, a position he has held since August 2006. “Eric has been an [...]
Continue reading...Google’s Schmidt sees nothing wrong with serving on Apple’s board
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Last week, the FTC began “discussing” whether or not the close ties between Apple and Google might run afoul of anti-trust laws contained in Section 8 of the Clayton Antitrust Act. The reason for the concern was rooted in the fact that two of Apple’s board members, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and former Genentech CEO [...]
Continue reading...Report: FTC investigating corporate ties between Apple and Google
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
The New York Times is reporting that the FTC is investigating whether or not the close ties between Apple and Google might run afoul of anti-trust laws contained in Section 8 of the Clayton Antitrust Act. The reason for concern lies in the fact that two of Apple’s board members, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and [...]
Continue reading...Apple asked Google not to use multi-touch in Android
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Citing a developer who supposedly worked on Android, VentureBeat is reporting that Apple asked Google not to implement multi-touch technology in its Android mobile OS, and that Google, obviously, complied. The implementation of multi-touch on the iPhone gives it a key advantage over competing phones such as the G1 and the BlackBerry Storm, and it raises the question [...]
Continue reading...Survey: Steve Jobs has second highest approval rating for CEO’s
Saturday, December 27, 2008
digg_url = 'http://www.edibleapple.com/survey-steve-jobs-has-second-highest-approval-rating-for-ceos/'; Glassdoor.com is a website that lets employees anonymously complain about or lavish praise upon their company and C.E.O, and in its most recent survey for 2008, the site found that Steve Jobs had a 90% approval rating as the C.E.O of Apple, coming in second place behind Arthur D. Levinson, the C.E.O of [...]
Continue reading...Google Voice App uses private iPhone API’s.. But how?
Thursday, November 20, 2008
John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has an interesting article about how the new Google app uses an API function call that is otherwise prohibited for developers to use. The feature in question is the ability to initiate a voice command simply by lifting the phone up to your face via the proximity sensor. “The [...]
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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