Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt sat down for an interview with The Wall Street Journal, and addressed his company’s relationship with Apple. In the interview he said the two companies would resolve the issues between them like adults.
It’s always been on and off. Obviously, we would have preferred them to use our maps. They threw YouTube off the home screen [of iPhones and iPads]. I’m not quite sure why they did that.
The press would like to write the sort of teenage model of competition, which is, ‘I have a gun, you have a gun, who shoots first?’
Schmidt went on to say that Apple and Google talk about patent litigation, and as to how Apple is embroiled in patent litigation with Android partners instead of Google itself.
He continued addressing the subject by saying the litigation would continue for “a while” and that the big losers from all of this wouldn’t be Apple or Google, but smaller companies who may be trying to get an OS started, but don’t have the necessary patent coverage.
Google recently updated its iOS search app to include a Siri competitor, and also has Safari competitor Chrome in the App Store.
