∞ Google accuses Steve Jobs of 'rewriting history'

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Apple’s battle with Google over the past year has been well documented, but now Google founder Larry Page says that Steve Jobs is “rewriting history.”

According to a report on AppleInsider, Page said that Google had been working on a mobile platform for quite a while and for Jobs to say that Google was responsible for the problems between the two companies was “a little bit of rewriting history.”

“I think that characterization of us entering after is not really reasonable,” said Page.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigned from Apple’s board last year as tensions between the companies began to rise. From there, things only got worse.

Google said Apple rejected its iPhone app on the App Store and stuck to its accusation even after Apple denied it. The battle eventually brought in the FCC, which began investigating the matter.

The two companies even tried to buy Admob, with Google ultimately winning the bidding war. Apple ended up buying Quattro Wireless.

Schmidt pointed out that Google and Apple still work closely together with Google being the default search engine on iOS 4 and it still has its Maps app on the iPhone.


  • http://tewha.net Steven Fisher

    Apple said they were dissatisfied with the experience. Apple added background APIs to improve it. Has Google adapted to the APIs and resubmitted?

    I didn’t think so.

    They’re incredible whiners.

  • lucas

    Sorry but i call lose on Google’s claims. They bought Android in 2005 sure. But Apple didn’t pull the iphone out of their butts in Jan 2007. They were working on it well before then, including after one of Google’s own was on the board and likely had access to at least some details.

    And early Google phone’s were set up as competition for Blackberrys, Sidekicks etc. Then after the iphone, they basically copied the design. Plus set up their whole “open source” multi company group. All so they could say “Unlike Apple, we . . .”

    Apple isn’t rewriting history, Google just wants us to ignore the details that they don’t like

    • Jim Dalrymple

      Someone else just brought up the point about being a BlackBerry competitor with me on Twitter. Very true — the original Android phones were pretty ugly and not like an iPhone.

  • http://www.faydalihayat.com/ faydalihayat

    Google working on a mobile platform so i think they wil again get number one they are knowww everytihngg

  • lrd

    Wow!

    I can’t believe that a company that copies another companies product almost verbatim can have such a naive outlook.

    Is that what Google’s cultures turning into? A me too culture that just doesn’t care about other companies IP? Is that what the market turning Google into?

    A desperate company looking for growth anywhere it can find it.

    Sounds a lot like Microsoft to me.

    But unlike Microsoft that made tens of billions from Windows, thank God that Google’s making nothing from Android and therefore on path that’s not sustainable.

  • ElvIsAlive

    Apple is highy unprofessinal liveing lengends in there own minds
    they must change there greed based ways if they think they can beat mircosoft

    Steve Jobs has no idea when it comes to building the best PC system

    Example – my 27 inch imac has no dust filter – so what in two years time i have a computer which i cannot open to clean, and no dust filter to clean the machine out.
    THIS SHOULD OF BEING THOUGHT OF ON DAY ONE- -
    WHAT FOOLISH ENGNEERS APPLE HAS.

    The Imac 27 inch has pathic sound from the motherboard, cirrus logic onboard sound
    who they kidding – that would have between 80db to 100db signal to noise ratio
    the external out is light based SP-DIF optical- Steve Jobs must of thought this was better
    but if you compare Spdif from analog to opitcal , you know its highly distorted .
    only good for a tv set my local JB-Hi-FI store expert says
    What a Joke toy computer Apple has built -
    no Serial IDE on the rear to add external HARD DISK – only slow firewire 800
    why have the best monitoir out there and put a cheapass video card from two years ago in it

    Its a wonder so many people build hackintosh based pc and basicly build a much faster more advanced computer than the expoensive rip off apple is trying to con you with.

    wake up steve jobs ya in ya own little world mate

    also they advertise bootcamp with windows xp and win 7 support
    but when ya have a problem and ring apple
    they then say they only provide very basic suppot for windows
    thats not what they say on the apple site

    regards

    unhappy apple imac 27 inch loser – cause they ripped me off 3500 dollers
    you profiting dogs apple

  • http://www.safedev.com.com sunnylove6

    Some software need more security!!
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