Monday, August 03, 2009


Google Vs Apple


Whenever one hear the name of Google or Apple one think of Google search engine or Apple's
Mac OS, iPod, iPhone, respectively. But it seems Google has agressive plans to intrude into the Apple's core business. Apple will not be sitting silently for sure after observing the aggressive plans of one of its allies. In last 12 months, google had a $10 billion of profit on a revenue of $20 billion,
whereas Apple had a $8 billion of gross profit on a revenue of $30 billion. Both are technology giants and will definately grow bigger. But google is supposed to grow more faster once its investment starts yielding results. What is Apple going to about it? Will the business allies turn into fierce competitors ?

Google's recent foray into new domain like mobile framework and operating system it seems the technology giant wants a bigger pie of the technology market.

The recent demonstration of Android OS speculates a war of technology powerhouses. Microsoft is not even a major player in this battle. After Vista, many of my friends say it Visaster (read disaster), even though it might believe in itself being one
of them. Google started with a google chrome browser, and many speculated the os to be the next step, which is true. Microsoft is no doubt the leader in the os market now, but after vista will it be able to come up with something which can beat the chrome, + Microsoft's reputation with all those bugs and crashes. So if you ask me, its a battle between Apple and Google. Microsoft is soon going to be a history in the OS market.

Android Mobile venture as Open Mobile Alliance, which has a strong backing up from Motorola and couple of other OEM seems be platform in which google will launch itself with a big bang. Android OS is leaped a
great deal ahead with Motorola nearly dumping all its old platforms and putting all its eggs on Android. Its more like demise of Windows Mobile & palm OS. Android phones will be competing with Apple's iPhone, and definately a google app store is expected to come soon to take on Apple iphone app store.

So it seems like in Desktop OS + Mobile OS google is definately expected to beat Microsoft's Windows XP + Vista & Windows Mobile. So its more like Google chrome OS v$ Apple's Mac Os and Google's Mobile Android OS v$ Apple's iPhone. With Google chief resigning as Apple director, battle is about to heat up more.