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06/19/2007, 3:05am, EDT
Tuesday, June 19th
New York Mag: Could Google buy Apple?
A lengthy piece in New York Magazine that profiles Steve Jobs, the history Apple Computer Inc. and the current status of Apple Inc. opines that Google will buy Apple. A purported quote from one of Steve Jobs' neighbors reads "I think that Google is going to buy Apple. It would be a victory for Apple; they’d get major-league partners, money, and engineers. And it would be a victory for Steve—a huge win that lets him leave the stage.' The article's author thinks that this speculation is made plausible by the fact that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is now on the Apple board; engineers at the two companies are collaborating on Google Maps for the iPhone; as well as the YouTube deal for Apple TV. "But is there any reason to think that in such a merger Jobs wouldn’t wind up as CEO—or, at least, chairman of the board?" the magazine asks.
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And after that, is this a member of the board, or someone in business who has knowledge of what's going on? Or is it that, if they couldn't get Steve's barber, they asked his neighbors for an opinion. (And then took the opinion other then "I can't stand living next to that guy. There's this glow coming from his house every night from his RDF, so bright you'd think its daylight or something. I can't sleep!"
If Google buys Apple, I'll switch to GNU/Linux. Take my word for it.
However, if Google were to buy Apple, they'd make it an autonomous subsidiary. Otherwise they'd be killing the goose that laid the golden egg, and business is all about golden eggs. That means it would have zero impact on Apple's customers.
If these adverts stay, I'm not going to be reading MacNN for a while. :o(