Google's Eric Schmidt claims Apple litigates, doesn't innovate

Hey Kelly, how about just reporting the news instead of asserting your opinion of Eric and his company throughout the article. Your fanboyism is so blatantly obvious.

ah yes... google. masters of innovation.

remember... this is what the original Android prototypes looked like pre-iPhone :

http://www.embeddedflash.com/wp-content/ti_android_prototype.jpeg

Didn't Eric Schmidt use to sit on Apple's Board when the first iPhone came out? or am I mistaken? He is such a hippocrate...as @freediverx stated "Google just imitates."

There’s no denying it, Almost 10 years at the hands of Ex-CEO Eric Schmidt has left Google’s product strategy bloated, and its once strong brand has been spread too thinly over far too many products.

Google launch new and innovative services all the time, but the user interface and function almost invariably remain stagnant, untouched, until users don’t care about them any more. The concept behind each new idea will eventually become dated, lose its user base and become irrelevant.

In order to put Google’s train back on the right track, the final destination of said train must be defined. What does the company do? How would you define Google? Sure, they are famous for search, and that’s still their core business, but it would be silly to call such a varied company just a “Search Engine.”

Are they a media company? Communications? Advertising? Software? All of these? Who knows. Whatever it is, it’s messy. The general issue is that they have forgotten to stick to their mission statement :

“to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”

full post at fingerpixel.com

I don't really see the gripe on Apple here.

When Steve showed off the original iPhone there was NOTHING like it on the market, or even close to market. True, the individual pieces existed, but NOBODY pit them together like that... Nokia and Microsoft had damn near a DECADE lead making phones. Even Google's Android didn't have many of those features.. For the first two years of iPhone, even Android was mostly vaporware and not SELLING on phones.

Steve said, right in the very first presentation Apple filed as many patents as they could... That makes everybody infringing AUTOMATICALLY knowing when the courts approve or deny Apple's claims. Of course Apple is going to fight... iPhone was a massive... Sink the company.. Kind of gamble. Apple made it look easy, but they really worked their asses off.. Exactly what patents are for.

I'm for reverse engineering "around" patents... If you can pull off the court review... Then YOU can have a patent too! But Google is just playing fast and loose... They're gonna get burned.

If we can all be just a tad honest here Apple is guilty of doing very similar things regarding borrowing ideas. I personally do not agree with Schmidt's comment and think it was uncalled for, but the fact of the matter is Apple has lost numerous patent lawsuits themselves. I'm just going from memory so forgive me if I am mistaken but to name just a few, Coverflow, iPod playlist, Time machine, etc. Some would argue that some of the loses were awarded to so called patent trolls but Apple likes to patent a lot of "ideas" that are not even proof of concept yet.

"My" personal opinion is that Apple makes superior products and one of their strongest qualities is to take existing ideas / interfaces and make them beautiful and better than the original (and I'm not saying Apple does not "create" things themselves by any means because they do). I believe nothing is even in the same ballpark as OS X and they have done wonderful things with iOS but when iOS5 is released how many of us will actually admit some new UI's changes like the notifications pulldown are "inspired" by Android.

Posting from my MacBook and I am huge Apple fan, but I think the phone competition is heating up and that benefits all of us.

This is the second Apple blog I take out of my feed this week.

I am confused. What innovation did Android or HTC bring to the table, ever?

I'm purposely not +1 ing this story in protestation.. hang on is +1 the same or different to Like-ing?

What a jerk! This from a man who's company blantanly copied Apple's mobile OS. Eric Schmidt is an ass. If it were not for Apple's innovation, the consumer market for smartphones will still be very tiny. Google owes a great deal of Android's success to Apple and the iPhone.