"Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit’"
Wired says that as is traditional after a big Apple announcement, at a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, Jobs took questions from Apple employees. In response to a question about Google, Jobs said, “This don’t be evil mantra: ‘It’s bullshit.’”
“Obviously, he was reacting to Google’s push into the phone business, which Apple regards as its exclusive turf. “We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says.”
The article goes on to say that “Google, which last week in a somewhat more modest development bypassed Apple’s iPhone app blockade by unveiling an html5 version of Google Voice, which takes full advantage of mobile Safari on the iPhone.”
Google believes that the future is really in web-based applications and not in mobile apps at all. Web-based applications of the sort html5, which Google ardently backs, makes much more viable. Also, Google believes in Open Source, while Apple clings to its closed, proprietary model.
Jobs doth protest too much, methinks.
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