http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 4th 2009 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 4th 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 5th 2009 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 4th 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 4th 2009 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 4th 2009 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 4th 2009 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNnX6XRQBec]]>May 4th 2009 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/
I'm interested in the results from the investigation.]]>May 4th 2009 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 4th 2009 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/
Seriously.]]>May 4th 2009 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/
If watching a commercial makes your day then you must have a pretty boring life.]]>May 4th 2009 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/
If putting people down makes u feel good u must have some personal issues......or maybe u have a case of hairy palm]]>May 4th 2009 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 4th 2009 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/'If putting people down makes u feel good u must have some personal issues......or maybe u have a case of hairy palm'

uhhh...and I quote
"anthony909 @ May 4th 2009 9:05PM
@ ELI just shut the fuck up"

Whatever.
-KevinC]]>May 4th 2009 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 5th 2009 5:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/think investigating Google/Apple ... will turn up anything :)

Unless Microsoft ... plants its ... an then pays others to
find it .... :) :) ... time will tell .... ]]>May 4th 2009 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/
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I'd suspect that similar investors that stopped the Google/Yahoo deal are going against the Apple/Google partnership. The economy is busted, it's easy money to bust the chops of the companies sitting on a pile of cash... especially for those that are "stockholders" because they WON'T be stockholders after the shakedown. I'd say Microsoft has less to do with this because there's no basis Microsoft could claim. In fact THEY were trying to partner with Yahoo to tie their OS and online services together... then again, maybe that is the reason.

The beauty of "regulating" companies that big is that they learn how to do the same thing "legally" then it's not only OK to go back to the old ways, but "it should be illegal" when the other companies aren't regulated too. Witness car makers, airlines and banks for how it's done.]]>May 5th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/

jk I know I know]]>May 4th 2009 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 4th 2009 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 5th 2009 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/
Aaahaha, hahahaaaaa.... hahaha!


Thanks!]]>May 4th 2009 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/
But yeah, this is a fair investigation. Their relationship has been suss for a while now...]]>May 5th 2009 2:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 4th 2009 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 5th 2009 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/
Maybe google is reserving push Gmail for Android.

Oh well, I just forward my gmail to yahoo anyway, which is push enabled]]>May 5th 2009 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 4th 2009 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/
BTW the Android is not open, it's half way open. I'm kind of disappointed in google's beta phone the G1. ]]>May 4th 2009 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 5th 2009 12:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/
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In the case of a) they were specifically sued firstly because MS supposedly altered its APIs to favour IE over competing browsers, and secondly because of the perceived intent of these actions (i.e. to reduce the effectiveness of competition).

IF Apple made QuickTime or Safari or something else (that has competitors) an unremovable and essential component of the OS, and altered their APIs to favour their own components over those of competitors, and their intention was to be anti-competitive, then they also would be in trouble. Well, not really, because the DoJ got burned in the end, and ended up having to accept a very weak settlement (as opposed to their original desire of breaking up MS and making forcible changes to Windows code!)

Do some damn research before posting your tired old misconceptions PLEASE.]]>May 5th 2009 1:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/
"OVERKILL"]]>May 5th 2009 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 5th 2009 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 5th 2009 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 5th 2009 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 5th 2009 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 5th 2009 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 5th 2009 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/
But Google will just say android is open source and anyone can use it so were not hurting anything. and then the FTC won't have shit to say.

Honestly, coming from an apple hater and an android fanboy i don't see this going very far and doing much of anything.

And if it does i can only see it hurting apple since google makes android so they can do whatever they want for it. Worst think that could happen would probably be certain google services removed from the iphone. and thats a huge stretch.]]>May 5th 2009 12:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 5th 2009 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/May 5th 2009 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship-being-investigated-for-antitrust-vio/]]>May 5th 2009 12:50AM