appleinsider.com— Apple and Google had an informal agreement not to recruit each others' workers while Eric Schmidt, the search engine's CEO, served on both boards, according to a new report.
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The funny thing is that Apple has used many of the same tactics employed by Microsoft in trying to gain impenetrable market share (anti-competitive deals with other companies, self-contained ecosystems that are only compatible with other Apple products, etc). So why is Apple revered while Microsoft is demonized?
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.~Adam Smith
Hopefully Google will get in trouble. Google is the evil empire, and hopefully everyone will finally start seeing them as who they really are instead of as the 'perfect child'.
joshuaerAug 10, 2009
wal-mart OilTobacco Microsoft I am sure there are more.
Closed AccountAug 10, 2009
The funny thing is that Apple has used many of the same tactics employed by Microsoft in trying to gain impenetrable market share (anti-competitive deals with other companies, self-contained ecosystems that are only compatible with other Apple products, etc). So why is Apple revered while Microsoft is demonized?
pseudoriousAug 10, 2009
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.~Adam Smith
kansascybercopAug 10, 2009
Hopefully Google will get in trouble. Google is the evil empire, and hopefully everyone will finally start seeing them as who they really are instead of as the 'perfect child'.
futureguyAug 10, 2009
Exactly, there is no M$ in the title, this is a non story./s
andrewwigginAug 11, 2009
Yes, that's what the title and the article say. Nothing else ever seemed implied to me.