It's an Open and Shut Argument

It's the battle between two hip, smart and innovative technology companies: Google and Apple. Google is open, flexible and free; Apple is closed, tightly controlled and expensive. What happens when they clash, and which philosophy will win out in the long run?



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Links to articles about Google:

• Google is the world's largest open-source company (if you count lines of open-sourced code).
• Gmail in Germany
• Plethora of Android devices with varying hardware creates difficulties for developers vs. one (few) iPhone with fixed hardware.
• Google Everywhere: Google wants to control the Internet, and could come up against anti-trust issues as Microsoft did in the 1990s.

Articles about Apple:

• Is Apple Evil? - from Jason Calacanis
• Apple vs. PsyStar (Mac clones)
• Apple vs. Palm Pre (iTunes synch)
• Apple vs. Woolworths (logo)
• Latest OSX update might lock-out Intel Atom processor
• Apple rejects Google Voice application on the iPhone