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Clash of the Tech Titans: Apple vs. Google

Today’s New York Times has an extensive article chronicling the growing animosity between Apple and Google. The two companies shared common goals for most of the past decade, when they were both attempting to upset Microsoft’s near monopoly on personal computers and “ensuring that Bill Gates didn’t dominate the frontier of online services and mobile devices.” Their collaboration became more official with the release of the iPhone, which shipped with Google’s search and mapping services at the core of the device.

Now that Google is making its own forays into mobile computing, relations have become strained.

“We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business,” Mr. Jobs told Apple employees during an all-hands meeting shortly after the public introduction of the iPad in January, according to two employees who were there and heard the presentation. “Make no mistake: Google wants to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them.”

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