Dr. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, joins Apple's Board

"if you exchange P and G,
Google would be called Poople
and Apple would be called Aggle
of course, next iPod would be called iGod."

Mike, you're rock

Let's do some basic algebra...
The two last letters of Google are L and E,
exactly the same two last letters of Apple, in the same order.

Apple and Google has the same ending sound.

Google has two G,
Apple has two P

if you exchange P and G,
Google would be called Poople
and Apple would be called Aggle
of course, next iPod would be called iGod.

After an imaginary fusion of Apple and Google, Larry Page would change his name to Larry Pages 3.0, Sergey Brin, would receive an upgrade on his name to Sergoogle Brin and Steve Jobs would be called Steve Jooble...

according to this math, Bill is the anti-christ using his throne in redmond to rule the world temporarily.

Larry Ellison (Oracle) was on the Board, and that seem to accomplish much. This could be different, since GOOG is a growing, dynamic company. Maybe ".mac" can finally be ditched in favor of a google/apple hybrid product offering better value.

You are all wide of the mark here...the big news is what this means for the future development of Apple's 'office' type products, and their possible future intergration with Google.

Google has announced that is to launch web-based business tools with spreadsheets and wordprocessing first up. Its a simple process to give Apple a massive head start in this arena and give Google the credibility it needs...expect Apple branded web based software soon!

Sorry to burst your bubble, guys.

Arthur Levinson was already on the Apple board *and* the Google board before Schmidt.

Not much new really happened here. The real headline should be: "2 Google guys on Apple board instead of just 1 ... Al Gore still chillin' with his Macinhood hommies".

In addition to Apple, Levinson also sits on Google's Board of Directors (since 2004). Not surprising that they've gone for Schmidt, too. I seem to recall that Andy Hertzfeld (and I'd imagine others) is with Google now, so there seems to be a pattern of Apple/Google cross pollenation.

Let's see if this inbreeding is a good thing. I'm hoping that "don't be evil" and "you can make money without doing evil" are philosophies not going by the wayside. As long as my Mac and Google do what I want them to do (which they do) and stay fun (which they have), I'm a happy puppy.

Introducing .Mac 2.0 beta (powerd by google)

No. 1, I am not sure Google represents the forces of good, but they say the enemy of my enemy is my friend. So i guess this maybe represents that....

Nice one. I hadn't been paying attention to the board, but it's interesting to see Art Levinson there.

http://www.gene.com/gene/about/management/exec/levinson.jsp

A long time ago I worked for him (about five steps down the ladder). He's a very, very smart cookie.

Where this really matters
.Mac (web services)
WebObjects (web applications development)
XServes (enterprise servers)
XRAID (storage solutions)
OS Tech (Search and GFS)

Schmidt is smart and can give expertise in many of these areas.