Rumors: Google and Apple sitting in a tree?

I see and hope for Apple to introduce a phone like I wrote on my website. I also see the value of Internet acces with decent navigation (the latter which lacks most phone browsers). However I do not see the added value of iTube integration which will only cost a lot of expensive bandwith.

I imagine there would be significant culture clash between Apple and Google. Apple designs obsessively to the demands of a few top "taste setters". Google lets a thousand flowers bloom, releasing dozens of products that are poorly integrated with each other and seeing which find an audience. Google releases things before they are finished, while Apple maintains obsessive secrecy about incomplete products.

Whose philosophy would prevail in a partnership? I can easily imagine the Google team announcing something ready to ship, while the Apple team responds that it is nowhere near ready. Apple's approach would probably make for a better phone, so long as Steve Jobs happens to prefer the same feature set that you want. If you like bluetooth and he doesn't, for example, better you should shop elsewhere.

Ah, I didn't realize there were so many Microsoft fanboys around here. Yes, by all means, strip down your OS, ink a till-the-novelty-wears-off alliance with some web company, "preload" a bunch of "apps" on the phone and hope it sticks! Force them to search with Google by monkeying with their default home page! What a concept!

Maybe they could label it the "Cingular Apple iPhone, Powered By Google" and stick a bunch of Cingular and Google logos and other crap all over it. Or just quit pretending to be a decent company dedicated to good design and focused products, and call it the Apple iGoogle iPhone ME Home Professional edition.

Brilliant! I wonder why nobody's tried that before! Because when I think Apple, I think pre-loaded Google apps! And maybe an icon to sign up for 1085 free hours of AOL!

Snarkiness aside, when you treat your customers like a bunch of idiot lemmings, you get a bunch of idiot lemmings for customers. This is not what Apple needs. People buy Apple products because they like Apple, not fricking Google. And they're smart enough to find google.com all by themselves.

If Apple could provide a nice-looking, easy to use phone that runs Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs properly, I'd pay whatever price they wanted.

// 9: Google could revamp .Mac. With GMail, GTalk (Integrate through iChat, seeing as Google and AOL already have their IM deal). Blogger integration for iWeb.

There you go, allows Apple to have a decent web portfolio, with Google doing all the work, if Apple lets a couple of Google products on the iPhone.

We'll find out at MacWorld more about what Google is bring to the table as far as Leopard, iTV and iPhone are concerned.

Apple is building the hardware and OS platform
Google is building a services and advertising platform
It will be ubiquitous from phone to TV to desktop to car...

now what would be cool is if the iPhone was mobile VOIP running over mesh networks attached to all the dark fiber google's been stock piling. Google provides the network and the content, Apple provides the hardware and a revamped .Mac service.

Probably never happen but it would put a smile on my face.

Great a phone that'll be in a state of perpetual beta.

Actually this would make an interesting combo, on one hand you have a company that generally offers their products to end consumers for free and the other hand you have a company that produces quality products that you do indeed pay a premium for ownership (not complaining mind you)...it'll be interesting to see how this one plays out.

#5. It's not Vista, you must be thinking of Mac OS X Bloat, not light.

It's not clear to me why Apple would use Google software on an Apple-branded phone.