It was the sigh of longing heard round the world: Google CEO Eric Schmidt (the Dr. Evil to Steve Jobs’s Number Two, apparently) was answering questions at a technology conference. One brave (or foolish) reporter asked Schmidt to comment on rumors that Google and Apple were collaborating on a tablet device.
“I don’t want to comment on rumors,” he said, then added: “I will tell you that Google and Apple are doing more and more things together through the normal course of communications … We have similar goals and similar competitors.”And, of course, the Macosphere is all hopped up on future Goople products: Google Maps is already on the iPhone, so how about integrating Google Translate too? The iPhone could automatically translate the language of whoever you’re talking to into mangled English, whilst simultaneously turning your conversation into unpleasant and wholly accidental comments about the recipient’s mothern—it’s like an updated version of Telephone.
But, really, when Schmidt said that Google and Apple were “doing more and more things together” it was really just a way of gently preparing the populace at large for the inevitable moment when Google calls Apple’s dad and asks for his blessing on the engagement. We have it on good authority that Google and Apple have been spotted taking long walks on the beach, listening to records together up in Apple’s room, and just “hanging out.” Rumor also has it that Google has asked Apple to the prom, even though Apple had already been asked by Intel (who, Apple told me, it only likes “as a friend”).
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