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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Source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/sergey-brins-iphone…

While some companies are busying trying to acquire other companies, big-wigs at Google are singing the praises of the iPhone. Sergey Brin,...

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Ben Margolin

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!)

February 02 2008 at 1:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Catt

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.

February 01 2008 at 1:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jonathan Allen

I love the Google iPhone app. For a while now I have used the iPhone Google Reader as my default RSS reader. Works great.

February 01 2008 at 11:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

krye

Looks like the folks over at NBC/Universal should take a page out of the Google handbook.

February 01 2008 at 11:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Peter

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.

February 01 2008 at 11:05 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

josh

Sorry to be a grammar nazi, but he's "an" iPhone toter, not "a."