Apple stole NOTHING.

It paid a princely sum in return for using parc ip. I believe it traded a nice wad of dirt cheap shares in return for access to the crown jewels sitting, gathering dust.

IJIOT! P>)

heather is a doll-face

But don’t cry for Apple – they ripped off enough stuff in the early days from Xerox Parc and enough of the iPhone from F-Origin.

Imagine just how cheap future Netbooks and Laptops could be if they are packaged with Chrome O/S instead of the usual Windows O/S.

Whether it is true or not, that is where discussing the issue becomes relevant….not your stupid attempt to dump your Microsoft anger.

After that, everything you said falls apart… yes, Google and Apple will always be close, and Google will try and get in as much AdSense advertising as possible, but Microsoft has 90% of the market share. That’s still what will get them the most money.

It’s so funny how the rest of the world is passing corporate America by. Get this making a new graphic for a Power Point presentation is still the big thing in corporate America.

Meanwhile, iPhone users are developing all kinds of 21st century applications to the tune of 56,000!

Naturally, Google’s ideas are derivative, since Apple’s management thought them up. I suspect that Steve Jobs has been planning this for a decade and it took some time to bring Google’s management on board. Microsoft’s attempt to buy Yahoo, last year, was a direct attack on Google. Chrome may be Google’s reply. Neither company can be blatant about exposing this conspiracy, so they will say nothing. You have to watch what they do, not what they say.

The idea is for Apple to hit Microsoft from the upper end of the consumer space. It will be adding the compatibility that the IT personnel want, but Apple won’t be entering the Enterprise markets. Why? Because that is Microsoft’s home turf. Apple wants the Small to Medium sized Business market because it is more flexible. The SMB companies often allow their employees to choose the computers that they will use.

The IT departments in bigger companies will be forced by their management to let in the iPhone and the Mac. Apple will satisfy the Enterprise market’s needs no matter how often Microsoft attempts to sabotage this.

Google will be hitting Microsoft from the low end, e-waste, razor thin profit margin, computer market. That is why Chrome will be free. Apple has resisted playing in this area, because the profits are meager and the quality of the hardware would sabotage Apple’s reputation.

The problem is that there is too much competition in the low end market and none of it serves its customers well. Linux is too chaotic. There are too many distros and none of them look very good. X11 copied MS Windows look and feel; It behaves too much like it, too. So, X11 must go.

If your intent is to wean the computer market off of Microsoft then a one-two punch is advisable. Chrome is likely to look and behave like a Mac. If this is so, it will not an accident or from stealing. It will be part of the plan. Google has said that Safari will run on top of the Chrome OS. Both Safari and the Chrome Browser use the Webkit foundations.

Software as a Service is fine for very light and casual computing. The Internet, as good as broadband is, is not reliable enough for anything more. When you start placing heavier demands on your computer or need to protect your data, where are you going to go — to Microsoft Windows? No. That would require a new learning curve when moving from Chrome to the Mac will feel natural.

Both Apple and Google will benefit from this. I suspect that Chrome will act like a Mac OS lite. It will serve as a stepping stone toward the Mac as Chrome’s customers increase their computing demands. Chrome will get them when they are young and Apple will get them when they grow up and get more money.

Apple uses the Mac OS to sell its hardware. Google will be using the Chrome OS to get people to use its Google Apps and search engine where they will see Google’s advertisements. These business plans do not conflict. The Chrome OS will always be simplistic because it must run on the cheapest hardware. It will be always five years behind Apple. Discriminating consumers will buy Apple hardware even when they are using Google’s Applications.

Google can start branding TV’s for all I care and the lovers will come out claiming its the second coming of Christ.
Anything Google does is in the interest of Google and nothing else and pretending that Apple and Google are best buddies is a dellusion.

Considering how lame Microsoft has been in building a strong web base over the past 10 years, Apple and Google have to be the Numbers 1 and 2 of the web world.

But not for one second would Coca-Cola ever allow the CEO of Pepsi to sit on their board.

Googles’ a one hit wonder relegated to copying other companies ideas.

Sergie and his friend should go back to school. And come to realization that they’re no Steve Jobs; just a likely pair of kids.

And Dr. Smart ass should just keep buying those Ivy League clothes that make him look like a 1960s geek.