Mirror Universe: Apple and Microsoft United Against Google
PCWorld, ReadWrite Enterprise, and 9to5mac all have interesting “what-if” articles up that describes a mirror universe where Apple and Microsoft unite to fight off the advances of an all-powerful Google.
Admittedly a lot has happened over the last year or so: Google entering the smartphone space with Android and the desktop with Chrome OS, the strained relations over Google Voice, the shattered directorate as Google CEO Eric Schmidt left the Apple Board while Arthur Levinson stayed on Apple and left Google.
PC World thinks Apple’s device could make up for the long delays in Windows Mobile 7 while Microsoft could provide the equally long-missing enterprise credibility for the iPhone.
9to5mac, for their part, points out that Microsoft’s Bing could also supply many of the search and mapping related features the iPhone currently relies on Google for.
Could their enemy’s enemy be their friends, even when Apple and Microsoft have had such a longstanding, classic rivalry of their own? And in this mirror universe, is it Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, or Eric Schmidt who wears the goatee of evil?
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This isn’t “mirror universe.” Apple’s been in business with MS lots of times. They’re like the Elizabeth Taylor of tech giants – they date and marry everybody, and then after they break up with them, they hate them and say nasty things about them. And then sometimes they date them and marry them again!
You might want to read up on the history of TrueType, which Apple folks tend to dismiss as inferior MS product, but was actually developed by MS and Apple together while Apple was in the middle of not being in love with Adobe anymore.
Then they decided they hated MS and loved Adobe again, and stuck with Type 1.
That’s Apple!
This would be a good thing. Google needs to be slowed down a little IMO.
I wonder, would this mean the end of the Google Maps and other integrated Google features on iPhone?
This is all inflated newsmedia. apple just isn’t that worried about google or Microsoft.
With that said : if someone ports google phone os for iPhone. Apple will get pissed!!
Sounds good tro me Time to take out the trash.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
It was rather interesting for me to read that article. Thanks the author for it. I like such topics and everything that is connected to them. I definitely want to read a bit more soon.
Truly yours