With so many fanboys spinning Silicon Valley history, it's sometimes easy to forget about the real chain of events that led to the ongoing Apple-Google thermonuclear war, how the romance turned to hate. This timeline presents an interesting case about why, despite patents and prior art, Steve Jobs had plenty of personal reasons to despise Schmidt, Page, and Brin.

The simple answer is Google's leadership profoundly betrayed the longtime personal trust and friendship of Apple's leadership in stealing what Steve Jobs believed were Apple's most prized possessions. The fuller answer is below, in a telling timeline of the once exceptionally-close Apple-Google relationship.

This discussion is timely given Google's current PR effort to convince the public and the media that Google and Apple are likely to negotiate a patent "truce" and make Google's Android's patent liabilities go away. Thus it makes sense to drill down to learn more about the real likelihood of Apple being party to any patent-litigation "truce" or grand Apple-Android patent-licensing settlement.

Many are familiar with Apple's Steve Jobs' strong views about Google-Android's infringement of Apple. In Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs famously said "…I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this." However, few are familiar with the story of what actually made Steve Jobs this angry. Moreover, few are familiar with the length and closeness of the Apple-Google relationship that explains the depth of the betrayal Steve Jobs felt about Google's theft.

In 2001, when Google was a three-year-old start-up with roughly $50 million in revenues, Google's co-founders met Steve Jobs and wanted him to become Google's CEO. Already CEO of his own highly-consequential, 24 year-old tech company with $8 billion in revenues that had just developed the iconic iPod, Jobs demurred and generously took young Larry Page and Sergey Brin under his wing and mentored them.

Per Steven Levy's In the Plex, "Jobs was excited by the opportunity to hook up with a business whose activities were entirely complementary to Apple's — there seemed to be no competitive overlap." Jobs went so far as to encourage his personal life coach and best friend, Bill Campbell, to become an executive coach to Google's leadership to help them succeed. Concerning the closeness between Apple's and Google's leadership team, Steven Levy wrote: "There was so much overlap that it was almost as if Apple and Google were a single company."

In secrecy, Apple started development of the iPhone in 2004. In August 2005, Google quietly bought the Android start-up, when no one outside of Apple was supposed to know that Apple was working on the iPhone. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt joined Apple's Board in August 2006.

Apple launched the iPhone in January of 2007. Eleven months later, in November of 2007, Google showed a video that effectively juxtaposed Google-Android's original pre-iPhone "before" prototype which looked and operated more like a Blackberry button-driven phone, with Google-Android's post-iPhone-launch "after" prototype that heavily-resembled the look-and-feel of the iPhone and incorporated many of Apple's signature touch-screen inventions. In October 2008, T-Mobile released the G1, Google's first Android phone.



According to Steven Levy's book, Jobs "concluded that he was a victim of deceit." He felt "he had been betrayed by the two young men he had been attempting to mentor. He felt the trust between the two companies had been violated […] Not only did he believe that Google had performed a bait and switch on him, replacing a non-competing phone with one that was very much in the iPhone mode, but he also felt that Google had stolen Apple's intellectual property."

In January 2009, then Apple COO Tim Cook told investors: "We approach this business as a software platform business. We are watching the landscape. We like competition as long as they don't rip off our IP. And if they do, we will go after anyone who does."

In May of 2009, the FTC indicated that it viewed that Google and Apple sharing Board members was anti-competitive, but Eric Schmidt defiantly publicly represented that Google is not a "primary competitor" to Apple's iPhone. Under pressure from the FTC, Schmidt resigned from Apple's board in August 2009. In November 2009, Google outbid Apple to acquire mobile advertising leader AdMob. Then Google launched its first smart phone, the Nexus One, in January 2010, just seven months after Google's Schmidt publicly represented that Google did not compete with Apple's iPhone.

Apple launched the iPad later in January 2010. At a late January 2010 Apple town meeting, Steve Jobs reportedly said: "We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them. This "don't be evil" mantra is bullshit."

In March 2010, Apple sues Google-Android partner HTC for patent infringement of the iPhone. At that time, Steve Jobs explained: "We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We've decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours."

In October 2010, Apple filed two patent lawsuits against Motorola over six multi-touch OS patents that make up much of the signature touch-screen inventions of the iPhone. In April 2011, Apple sued Google Android partner Samsung for patent infringement of the iPhone and iPad.

In early August 2011, Google's Chief Legal Officer blogged that: "Android's success has yielded… a hostile campaign by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies waged through bogus patents." Later in August 2011, Google buys Motorola and its 17,000 patent portfolio to vigorously "defend Android."

In August 2012, Apple wins a $1.05b patent infringement suit against Samsung for copying many distinguishing features of the iPhone and iPad. Google responds by encouraging the media to expect a patent truce which it knows is not likely.

Google's Chairman Eric Schmidt made a potentially incriminating admission at Motorola's new phone launch in publicly admitting that "we were late to tablets" and that only 70,000 of Google's 1.3 million daily Android activations are tablets. That's potentially incriminating because during 2008-2009, when Mr. Schmidt was still on Apple's board, Steve Jobs made sure to keep Eric Schmidt in the dark about development of the iPad. Isn't it interesting that when Mr. Schmidt was on Apple's board and aware of the iPhone, Google was not "late" to the smart phone market (Google-Android now has dominant market share), but when Google's Schmidt was out of the loop as a board director on the existence of the iPad, Google is somehow "late" to the tablet market?
The big overall takeaway here is that if Google's leadership is willing and comfortable stealing from longtime personal friends and colleagues who have given generously to them and greatly helped them succeed at most every stage, Google could be expected to have no compunction stealing from people they don't know. This also helps explain why Google has by far the worst intellectual property infringement record of any major American corporation and why so many companies and people are suing Google around the world for intellectual property infringement.
By
Scott Cleland

The Author is a sworn enemy of Google
Scott Cleland is President of Precursor LLC, a research consultancy serving Fortune 500 clients, some of which are Google competitors. He is also publisher of GoogleMonitor.com and Googleopoly.net, and author of the book: "Search & Destroy: Why You Can't Trust Google Inc.
He has testified before Congress three times on Google.

Why am i not surprised?
It's unfortunate that we need to brace for more of this kind of things!
The downfall of Gaddafi really helped in equipping most of Nigerian bad elements with military grade weapons!
Boko haram, kidnappers et al
The other day we all saw the pictures, of the captured kidnappers in the east and their arsenal, which is enough to launch a coup and overthrow the government.
The hopelessness of Nigerian youth too is not helping matter at all.
Boys are not smiling again!
I'm sorry for sounding like a pessimist, but it's down hill from here

@ the topic, don't know why this came to my head!



Jafar: Finally! You will bow to me!
Jasmine: We will never bow to you!
Jafar: If you won't bow before a Sultan, then you will cower before a sorcerer!
Jafar: Abject humiliation! (zaaap)

The way Nigerians are going now,
especially with all these social media,
it will really be difficult for any politician to pull a wool over their eyes o!

* whistling * I love my country i no go lie
Na inside am, i go live and die

Just another day in the jungle called Nigeria,
Why am i not surprised
Money has changed hands, the story has changed

musKeeto: I'll be on the first Dana plane upon resumption of their services.

Just walk in, spit on the pilot's face, punch a steward in the nuts and alight Asap..

Ol boy,
U be badt boy
If i am the pilot. i will close the door on you before you can alight,
push the throttle, and take off vertically like a rocket, fly the plane until it stalls,
and hear you scream for mercy

Its like getting a message from the grim reaper
Anyway, i always use their service anytime I'm in Nigeria,
But not again!

[size=13pt]PRESS STATEMENT ON THE LIFTING OF THE SUSPENSION ON DANA AIR OPERATIONS BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT[/size]

Lagos, September 6, 2012

The management and the over 558 staff of Dana Air wish to express our deepest appreciation to the Federal Government of Nigeria over the lifting of the suspension of the airline's operations with effect from Wednesday, September 5, 2012, following government's satisfaction with the air-worthiness of the airline after a rigorous technical, operational and financial audit.

We also wish to thank all Nigerians and our esteemed guests for your prayers since the tragic accident of Sunday, June 3, 2012. Our thoughts and prayers will always be with the families that lost loved ones; we remain committed to assisting them in every way possible and also fulfilling our obligations to them fully, as stipulated by the law.

The provision of safe, reliable world-class air transport services has always been our focus at Dana Air and we will continue to adhere strictly to safety procedures as required by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Act and all other relevant local and international regulations, as we resume flight operations shortly.

^ ^ God help her pastors o!
Any man of God that lay hands on her, has just touched an high tension cable

Esss: Biitch A'rse Corpers..

They should be expelled..

They are para-military for Bleep sakes.. So you mean they couldnt disarm them?!

When I served, I was a strong brutal Corper.. We learnt martial arts, weapons training, survival skills, espionage, infilteration and extraction..

Anyways, they are christians. Instead of fighting back, they would be praying for a miracle. I dare those robbers to attack the Muslim lodge.. Those Muslim Corper dudes are mean SOBs. .

Stop talking out of ur a.rse man!
Was it in NYSC you learnt martial arts, weapons training, survival skills, espionage, infilteration and extraction?
Or Boko haram camp in Niger?
Smh
Brainless iddiot!

hbk001: Die az a xtian,,,really?Die az a xtian,,,really?Die az a xtian,,,really?

Yes o!
With a vibra.tor!

ebamma: cynthia my inertia
I cry in amnesia,that i was unable to protect u in absentia,may your soul rest in tunisia

Ol boy!
though this is a solemn thread, but i must say
You dey craze o! lol

excondido:
ruptured appendicities can be very fatal as in the case of harry houdini the famous american stunt performer.

Na only Houdini?
I lost a relative through that!
The family was treating him with Ogun jedi-jedi for stomach ache!
He got to the hospital too late

ogugua88: Since when is appendectomy major?

When the thing don burst inside, the pus from the abscess caused will infect the whole stomach (peritonitis)
Na death be dat o!

Na God save am, we for dey plan her burial by now!

Anyways sha, it could still have been treated here in 9ja!

Anyone flying Dana should do so, singing . . .

"This world is not mine own,
I'm just passing through . . .

OR

Dagrin's

"if i die,
Make you no cry for me,
E jen sinmi, e jo eje min"

berem: Hope none will be found in my village!

Was your village a battlefield?
If it was, the buried munitions will soon start to turn up!

Idowuogbo:
I catch u 2day! Were d heck u bin man!

It seems, many people mistake me for someone else

ayobase: This news made me ask this question, but you observing it as a tribal sentiment as at ur detriment.
.
Why are the Eastern States being grossly affected with these explosives....what happened to the West and North during the war....no discoveries there yet or what?

The closest the war got to, in the West was Ore, none at all in the North!
All the battle fields were in the South east and the South south.
I was wondering why the Governors of these states had kept mute all these while,sacrificing the lives and limbs of their people?

Lwkmd!

abes: Apple plans to start legal battle with mini vans and cars.

Una no go kill pesin here o!
lol

[size=13pt]Slide To Unlock, Abi?[/size]

texazzpete:

I think you need to get a dictionary and check the meaning of the word 'stolen'.

Apple had the iPod, iMac line of products. What did you think their phone was going to be called? Hobscotch McNuggets?


Cisco already had a trademark for the iPhone name. Apple negotiated to get the rights to use that name. I mean, the article you quoted specifically mentioned that Apple NEGOTIATED an agreement with Cisco. WTF do you now come with this 'stolen' story?

[size=13pt]If you hate Apple that much that you're willing to make up stories, perhaps you can also say that Apple stole their name and their logo from a naturally occurring fruit.

I know you despise Apple but PLEASE be reasonable. It's disconcerting to have to abandon legitimate arguments to refute your FUD and misinformation[/size].

Lighten up, abeg
Non of us is paid to praise any brand here, unlike the 40 laptops squad
It's just that some of Apple's claim are just ridiculous
Although they may have gotten $1.05 billion award, they also got all the underdogs as enemies and i can assure you they are more than 1.05 billion!
And by the time these underdogs begin to throw stones, they will throw the toilets as well, lol

When Apple steals ideas it's art, when someone steals ideas from Apple it's theft

Apple did not invent the Shoe,
But they invented a better shoe polish and patent both the shoe and the polish!
Awon ole ifo!

^ welcome to American justice System!
Bunch of hypocrites

omotbol: There is no point discoursing all of these, the onus of proof was on the part of Samsung to prove to the court (jury) that such technology or idea existed before apple introduced them. If they didn't prove that, they are to blame or it is a lie. But in my sincere opinion i think the information above is concocted.

What can you do when the Dishonourable Judge Lucy Koh is already biased against you and the jury are Apple community people?




Judge Lucy Koh has apparently decided the fate of the Samsung V Apple case all on her own. In fact she has even ordered evidence to be destroyed. Now correct me if I am wrong, but why on earth would ANY judge interested in making a sound and fair decision ask for evidence to be destroyed. The only reason I can think of is that Luck Koh knows that the evidence is valid and would hurt Apple significantly during this trial. It is apparently also something that Samsung knows as well. Samsung are the ones that leaked this rejected evidence to the press. The move was partly to prove the point that Apple borrowed from Sony for the iPhone design and also to show Judge Koh’s bias in the trial.

But there is more to this story than just the Sony CAD drawings. Samsung also produced product designs that pre-date the launch of the iPhone by at least a year. They clearly show that Samsung was also working on the same concept long before Apple launched their product. This would automatically rule out the possibility that Samsung copied Apple, but again Judge Koh refused to allow the evidence to be submitted. When Samsung Lawyer John Quinn asked what the point of having a trial was if Samsung was not allowed to admit evidence he was threatened with sanctions showing that Judge Koh is not interested in the truth or a fair trial.

We have said from the beginning that this trial is very important to the future of innovation, but that with the current judge presiding over it there is a good chance that a gross miscarriage of justice will happen. The good news here is that Samsung appears to be aware of it and are making the right theatrical maneuvers to make sure the press and the jury know too. These well documented issues could bode well for the almost certain appeal that Samsung will need to see any real justice in this case. Still when you consider that [size=13pt]Judge Koh worked for a company that received stock from Apple during their IPO and then continued to represent them it is not surprising that we are seeing this happen now.[/size] We would love to see Lucy Koh removed and the venue changed in this trial, perhaps if this happened at least the case would be decided on the balance of ALL of the evidence and not what the judge wants the jury to hear.

http://www.decryptedtech.com/editorials/judge-lucy-koh-is-working-hard-to-deny-a-fair-trial-to-samsung#oL6DOQH3uGfdMOGp.99

texazzpete:

This kind of article would have to come from a website called 'phandroid', wouldn't it?

Sorry to say this, but this article is VERY VERY dubious. I'll explain

First of all, no company would show their hands before the event. There's no way Samsung would pre-announce an intention to sue Apple weeks before the iPhone release.
Secondly, any LTE patents would likely be FRAND based...and any FRAND patent owner is mandated to make available their IP for use under reasonable terms.
Thirdly, as the article notes, the iPad 3 comes with LTE. Any software implementation in the iPad will make its way to the iPhone. Failure to litigate for the iPad 3 will damage any case for the next iPhone.

Finally, Apple doesn't make the LTE chip. The manufacturer (for example, Qualcomm) would already be licensing the patents before supplying to Apple. Hence no scope to litigate.

Tex, if you had read the article on the site, you w'd have discovered, the original article is from Koreantimes newspaper

Samsung confirmed that it will immediately sue Apple if the latter releases products using advanced long-term evolution (LTE) mobile technology. LTE has been emerging as the top standard in the global mobile industry.

According to data from Thomson-Reuters, Nokia ranked top with 18.9 percent in terms of the number of LTE patents, followed by Qualcomm with 12.5 percent, Samsung Electronics with 12.2 percent and Ericsson with 11.6 percent.

http://www.koreatimes.co/www/news/tech/2012/08/133_118544.html

check other sites for same story!

http://news.yahoo.com/samsung-plan-revenge-sue-apple-dares-release-lte-192517129.html

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/08/30/samsung_to_sue_apple_over_lte_patents_partner_with_microsoft_to_avoid_android_lawsuits.html


At the end of the day, whoever wins this, I hope the powers that be will see how absurd the current state of the patent system is and a major reform will be undertaken.

The only thing I regret is that meanwhile, the parasites on society, called "attorneys" will line their pockets with cash that will ultimately come from the consumer.

kingsilly:
texazzpete just let it go...apple will alwayz rock no nid trying to convert diz fandriod guys

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[size=13pt]Google and Apple CEO’s Reportedly Engaging In Over-The-Phone Patent Talks[/size]



According to an exclusive report from Reuters, Google CEO Larry Page and Apple CEO Tim Cook have been chumming it up, engaging in behind-the-scenes talks over each of their company’s intellectual properties. It wouldn’t be the worse idea we’ve heard and sure, we’d like to see Google rise up off the ground like a sleeping giant, crushing Apple with patent violations and injunction rulings, but offensive legal action isn’t typically how Good Guy Google plays ball.

Apparently, the two megacorps are simply keeping the lines of communication open, despite Apple’s trial win against Samsung last week over trade dress and design patents. It was said both CEO’s have spoken over the phone with future phone meetings scheduled for a later time. But it’s not just the chief executive officers, discussions are also being conducted by lower-level officials as well.

So what exactly is being discussed? Well, that can only be speculated. But in my mind’s eye I can see Larry Page making the first move, calling up Tim on his direct line, asking if there’s some kind of mutual middle ground that can be reached. Tim would respond with an astronomical number pulled out of thin air and perhaps that’s when the convo ended.

It’s been suggested Google should simply do what they can to quell Apple and get back to doing what they do best — innovating. I’d be inclined to agree but still, if there’s one thing I’ve learned about trolls from my short time writing on Android blog, it’s that sometimes they can’t be appeased… and a swift ban-hammer is the only way to deal with the situation.

http://phandroid.com/2012/08/30/google-and-apple-ceos-reportedly-engaging-in-over-the-phone-patent-talks/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[size=13pt]Samsung threatens to sue Apple if next iPhone has LTE[/size]

Well how’s this for a comeback? After being informed that they would have to pony up $1.05 billion for infringing on design and utility patents owned by Apple, Samsung has threatened to use a very important piece of firepower at some point down the line. Korea Times is reporting that Samsung is ready to sue Apple if the next iPhone has 4G LTE.

Samsung enjoys an extensive patent portfolio pertaining to LTE technology, and they reportedly own 10% of all LTE patents currently floating around. Apple has shown a key interest in LTE with the advent of the iPad 3. Because of its arrival inside the latest iPad the tech industry fully expects Apple to follow suit with the next iPhone.



“But why are they waiting for the iPhone if the iPad is out there right now,” you ask. Well, for one, waiting for the first LTE iPhone is probably the best strategic move Samsung can make. The iPhone makes up a lot more of Apple’s mobile sales than the iPad, and Samsung likely wants to land the biggest blow they can.

This is a very interesting development to behold, and it’ll be interesting to see if these supposed threats will change Apple’s mind about using LTE in the next iPhone. But even with the patents to back them up, Samsung could be subject to FRAND rules because of LTE being a standard.

Should the next iPhone launch with LTE and should Samsung decide to sue, it’s unlikely they’ll be able to get a victory of the same magnitude. I’m no patent expert, though, so I’m just going to grab some movie popcorn and watch this one unfold.

http://phandroid.com/2012/08/30/samsung-threatens-to-sue-apple-if-next-iphone-has-lte/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

This is what you get when you put sycophants in positions!
Imagine? a citywide wifi once existed in Abuja? chai!

Rhino.5dm:
Bleep i-Shiite. Galaxy S lll all the way. can't trade my Sammy boy with any i-nonsense.

Full HD view and browsing with the speed of light.

Sammie is already working on Galaxy S 4, and apple is already going batshit
And i tell ya, S4 is gonna work like Harry porter's wand!

While apple was bullying competing hardware manufacturers (OEMs), Google was calmly putting together its war chest. Not even secret about it. Motorola has tons of very powerful patents, patents that pretty much make mobile phones what they are today, and are genuine innovations, rather than vague patents like apple likes to enforce. Google was wise to buy Motorola, now they can back up android and any device maker who uses android, and give them some much needed ammunition against the other two 800 lb gorillas in the arena. Yes I consider Microsoft one, they may be lacking in the mobile department, but they are still a big player. After all, it's only a matter of time before they outright purchase Nokia, and use their patents to start laying some hurt on Google and apple.

My best guess is, Apple's going to purchase RIM next, if they're smart.

Hopefully this whole mess will bring attention to the broken patent system, which is not spurring innovation at this point.

~Bluetooth:







The only innovation I knew Motorola for was v3 blade.

Na so you think abi?
Are you aware Motorola patented the idea of putting the phone's antenna inside the body of the phone, yeah! lol
When the sh.it hits the fan, just remember!
Apple fired the first salvo!