Google is backing HTC for a Lawsuit filed against the phone makers by Apple and has said, “We are not a party to this lawsuit. However, we stand behind our Android operating system and the partners who have helped us to develop it”
…I was just making a point. The fact that I’m a fanboy doesn’t mean I’m wrong and you know it.
But that’s besides the point. Google will never remove their apps from the iPhone, but if they do, it won’t be as disastrous as people think. Google has a lot of market share because they give their services away for free, but that is also their Achillies heel. The only way to stop iPhone users from using their services, would be to put the services behind a payment wall and that would kill the one thing that made Google popular in the first place.
Also, Apple has 40 Billion in the bank. What’s to stop them from buying a GPS company like Tom Tom or Garmin or MapQuest and use that as their native Map App instead?
And there’s alternatives to just about everything else Google has. Yahoo Mail is already on the iPhone. Bing could replace Google Search, but who really gives a crap about that? Creating a bookmark for Google Search is just as easy as using the default search field in Mobile Safari.
Google has nothing to…
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Google Backs Its Boy, HTC, In The Apple Lawsuit Ring
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