<story><title>Another Way Apple&apos;s Fight With Google Is Hurting Users</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/another-way-apples-fight-with-google-is-hurting-users.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adriand</author><text>The actual title of this article is &quot;Another Way Apple&apos;s Fight With Google Is Hurting Users&quot;, which casts less blame than the modified title here on HN, &quot;Another Way Apple&apos;s Fight Against Google Is Hurting Users&quot;.&lt;p&gt;It is unfair to present this ongoing situation as a war on Google by Apple.  It is a competition &lt;i&gt;between&lt;/i&gt; the two companies.  Not to beat a long dead horse, but the war between the two companies started when Google entered the mobile device space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanMcGreal</author><text>A few points in the interest of fairness:&lt;p&gt;* Apple began developing the iPhone in 2004 and released it in June 2007.&lt;p&gt;* Android was founded in 2003 and Google bought the company in 2005. Google and partners announced the Open Handset Alliance in November 2007 and the first Android phone was released in October 2008.&lt;p&gt;So far, so good. Two companies that did not start out in mobile telephony/computing both began developing products and entering the space around the same time, competing with the existing smartphone manufacturers, particularly RIM and Nokia.&lt;p&gt;Google&apos;s competitive practices have consisted mainly in developing and iterating a solid product, partnering with a variety of hardware providers to develop a large ecosystem and market share, and occasionally releasing flagship devices to raise the state of the art.&lt;p&gt;Google has borrowed some innovations from its competitors and developed some innovations of its own.&lt;p&gt;Apple&apos;s competitive practices have consisted mainly in developing and iterating a solid product, partnering with developers via an app store to develop a large ecosystem, and maintaining control of the design and manufacture of devices to maintain standards of quality.&lt;p&gt;Apple has borrowed some innovations from its competitors and developed some innovations of its own.&lt;p&gt;Apple has also pledged &quot;thermonuclear war&quot; to &quot;destroy Android&quot;, launched a patent war of attrition against Android hardware vendors, and is now, apparently, hobbling the functionality of its own device in an attempt to marginalize Google.&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s competition, and then there&apos;s anti-competitive behaviour. Apple would do better to stick with the former, since the company is obviously very good at designing, building and marketing highly competitive products.</text></comment>
<story><title>Another Way Apple&apos;s Fight With Google Is Hurting Users</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/another-way-apples-fight-with-google-is-hurting-users.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adriand</author><text>The actual title of this article is &quot;Another Way Apple&apos;s Fight With Google Is Hurting Users&quot;, which casts less blame than the modified title here on HN, &quot;Another Way Apple&apos;s Fight Against Google Is Hurting Users&quot;.&lt;p&gt;It is unfair to present this ongoing situation as a war on Google by Apple.  It is a competition &lt;i&gt;between&lt;/i&gt; the two companies.  Not to beat a long dead horse, but the war between the two companies started when Google entered the mobile device space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>warfangle</author><text>If you flip the players around, could you see Google allowing Siri on the Google Play market?&lt;p&gt;I could. (Siri would even be able to launch apps, etc, due to Android&apos;s more robust API)</text></comment>