Apple to offer Google Apps on the iPhone?

Posted by Dusan on Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 5:05 am under Apple, Applications, Mac OS, Partnerships, Services, iPhone

Apple to offer Google Apps on the iPhone?We all know that iPhone will come with preinstalled Google Maps. But what about other Google’s applications and services, such as Picasa, Docs and Spreadsheets, Notebook, GMail, etc?

Speaking at the event in Paris, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt said: “iPhone is a powerful new device and is going to be particularly good for the apps that Google is building. You should expect other announcements from the two companies over time.” A single sentence was good enough for people to start speculating…

It’s not hard to imagine Google and Apple extending its partnership to bring an array of Google apps to the iPhone. After all Schmidt already sits on the Apple’s board, hence pitching that idea to Jobs&Co doesn’t sound like a problem. What does sound like a problem is the fact that Google Gears at the moment only works on Firefox, and as we know, iPhone comes with Safari. Still, this seems quite solvable… What do you think?

[Via: ZDNet.co.uk]


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    • 4 Responses to “Apple to offer Google Apps on the iPhone?”

    • Zec says:
      June 26th, 2007 at 11:37 am

      Well, yes, I think they were thinking a lot about mobile space.
      I wrote recently and put some hypothesis for feedback.

      The recent news is that Google bought GrandCentral service which is connected to virtual telephony business…

    • Beyondwww says:
      June 28th, 2007 at 4:18 am

      :idea: Well It was very much expected once G mapping was introduced in iphones and so much stress was put into that feature in all of the iphone exhibitions.

      Well a very nice move…

    • RemoteMethod says:
      June 28th, 2007 at 1:49 pm

      Google apps on iPhone is not a very far fetched idea at all. It has been a simple rule of business, brand names attract brand names to reinforce their images and to diversify.

      But how much of value add will GApps be for an iPhone or vice versa is a really big question. It is easy to speculate all the sweet and nice things happening when these giants collaborate, but it is not always that straightforward.

      Let’s see how it goes.

      ~Beyond WWW
      http://beyondwww.blogspot.com

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