Google/Apple: no more Goople

Are Apple and Google at long last really competitors? The Obama administration had already questioned mutual back-scratching among Silicon Valley’s leading lights. Apple’s rejection of a Google application for its iPhone pushed another federal government hot button, mobile telephony. Coincidence or not, Google’s Eric Schmidt is also finally leaving Apple’s board. In reporting Schmidt’s departure, Apple boss Steve Jobs noted that potential conflicts made it increasingly hard for the Google chief ...