Wait until Apple's developers conference, he tells a reader, "You won't be disappointed."
Steve Jobs at WWDC '08
This was Google's (GOOG) week.
Not only did the Federal Trade Commission give its blessing to Google's purchase of AdMob (a mobile ad network that Apple was planning to buy), but Jay Yarow at Silicon Alley Insider counted 11 ways Google "slapped" Apple (AAPL) at its I/O conference in San Francisco.
Two of my favorite MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 23, 2010 5:54 PM ET
The Microsoft (MSFT) CEO says that Google's (GOOG) mobile OS isn't without a cost in an interview with Jon Fortt.
Ben Baer, Senior Producer - May 21, 2010 2:13 PM ET
Apple's entrance into the mobile ads market with iAds is taken into consideration.
The FTC voted 5-0 to approve Google's $750 million purchase of mobile advertising company Admob. The deal was seen as possibly being harmful to competing mobile platforms like Apple's iPhone.
The FTC first took a look at the deal in November and has been criticized inside and outside of Google (GOOG) for taking too long to reach a decision.
Apple's (AAPL) MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 21, 2010 1:06 PM ET
The first Google Doodle you can actually play celebrates the 30th anniversary of one of America's first video game icons.
Update: Google being Google has an Easter Egg in the app. Hit 'insert coin' button twice and get a 2nd player Miss Pac-Mac who someone else can control with the "ADSW" keys. (Thanks Deep Blue!)
Pac-Man was launched on May 22, 1980 in Japan. In October of that same year, it came MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 21, 2010 11:57 AM ET
They're getting to the point, says an analyst, where Apple could miss Wall Street's targets
Gene Munster's team at Piper Jaffray called 50 Apple stores this week and found a "very limited" supply of iPads. Specifically:
37 (74%) of stores were completely sold out of all models
All 50 (100%) were sold out of the 3G models
13 (26%) had only Wi-Fi models left to sell
This is no better -- and in some respects, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 21, 2010 9:23 AM ET
Ex-Googler broke Obama's ethics rules by talking to Googlers -- but how couldn't he?
Andrew McLaughlin (photo:World Bank)
By Roger Parloff
By browsing through several dozen emails now being posted by a consumer group, anyone can read for himself the chummy chatter that has been occurring for the past year between a couple of senior Google officers and White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin, who headed Google's global public MORE
May 21, 2010 8:36 AM ET
In his Google I/O keynote, Vic Gundotra threw down the gauntlet. How will Apple respond?
Google's vision of an iPhone-only future.
Thursday may be remembered as the day Google (GOOG) leapfrogged Apple (AAPL), introducing a slew of new products -- an ad platform, a music market, Google TV -- and reporting that in 18 months Android has overtaken the iPhone OS in everything from U.S. smartphone sales to mobile Web searches.
But MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 21, 2010 8:11 AM ET
Google signaled an end to its ambitions to bypass the carriers with its announcement that it would discontinue the Nexus One Store last month.
Andy Rubin, VP of Google Engineering, second from left.
In a media Q&A session today, Google's Android leadership told the press audience that they had given up on having an independent Android store because they wanted to focus on working with the carrier partners. The move MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 20, 2010 8:30 PM ET
Throughout the last two days of Google I/O, just about every product and service that Google announced was a partnership with Adobe and another shot over Apple's bow.
Yesterday, Google announced its intentions with HTML5 and took a dig at Apple's later adoption of the HTML5 spec: "I think it was a late night Steve Jobs email or something," mused Google's Vic Gundotra. Adobe followed with a Dreamweaver and Flash export MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 20, 2010 7:41 PM ET
In March, SimplifyMedia bowed out of the iPhone App space telling its customers that it was moving in a new direction. That direction was toward Mountain View.
A cryptic blog post in March was the last we saw of SimplifyMedia...until today.
After developing the technology behind Simplify Media for over 4 years, it is time for us to take it in a new direction. In order to focus on this transition, we MORE
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