"The companies even shared personal ties, with Apple board members Bill Campbell and Al Gore, the former U.S. vice president, serving as advisers to Google in its early days. The companies' kinship culminated in Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, joining Apple's board in 2006.
Schmidt resigned as an Apple director five months ago, with Apple CEO Steve Jobs citing Google's expansion into "Apple's core businesses" as the main reason for the departure.
The Federal Trade Commission had been looking into whether Schmidt's dual roles on the boards of Google and Apple might stifle competition between the two companies. That now appears to be a dead issue."
Schmidt....is CEO of Google....sat on Googles board.....and sat on Apples board until just recently.
kinship? ....lol
Amazing how they keep secrets from each other in a competitive environment...
IMO, there's a plan for that suggested collision....
doni
