Google hearts iPhone
While some companies are busying trying to acquire other companies, big-wigs at Google are singing the praises of the iPhone. Sergey Brin, one of Google's presidents, is an iPhone toter and a happy one at that. Using the Maps application (which is, shockingly enough, powered by Google Maps) Sergey was able to find his way to a hotel rather easily. Also worth mentioning is that Google is getting most of its mobile web traffic from the iPhone. This lead Eric Schmidt, Google CEO and Apple board member, to state that even though Google is developing their own mobile OS the iPhone will make Google money, in the form of web ad revenues.
Isn't it great when everybody wins?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Benjamin said 10:21AM on 2-01-2008
no news.
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Scott McNulty said 10:29AM on 2-01-2008
Is good news?
josh said 11:02AM on 2-01-2008
Sorry to be a grammar nazi, but he's "an" iPhone toter, not "a."
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ryan said 11:51AM on 2-01-2008
Go easy on him, he's not a professional
josh said 11:54AM on 2-01-2008
Oh no problem :).
Peter said 11:06AM on 2-01-2008
On my iPod touch at least, most banner adverts don't display. I just get that little blue box. So he must be talking about Google Ad Words.
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krye said 11:07AM on 2-01-2008
Looks like the folks over at NBC/Universal should take a page out of the Google handbook.
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Jonathan Allen said 12:03PM on 2-01-2008
I love the Google iPhone app. For a while now I have used the iPhone Google Reader as my default RSS reader. Works great.
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geochick said 1:55PM on 2-01-2008
Yeah before the iPhone came out I was at a conference where Micheal Jones (CTO Google Earth) was encouraging us to grab one. Its nice to have Google on the iPhone.
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Ben Margolin said 1:25PM on 2-02-2008
Google is awash in iPhones... lots of folks there have them, and everyone pretty much loves them. If the iPhone SDK ever actually comes out, I can imagine a lot of GOOG engineers doing 20% projects for the iPhone, even moreso than for Android (not least because there's no handsets available with Android yet!)
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