Apple and Google were once pretty close with Google Maps on the iPhone and Eric Schmidt on the Apple board. But since Schmidt left last year, Apple and Google have been at war. Now Steve Jobs has allegedly slammed the search giant and poured scorn on Flash creators Abode.
During a meeting for Apple employees at Apple’s Infinite Loop headquarters, its claimed Steve Jobs attacked Google. Wire claims Jobs ripped into Google saying: “We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them.”
It seems Jobs is pretty displeased with Google’s Nexus One and the company’s business practices in general. Wired’s report claims he went on to say: “One more thing. This don’t be evil mantra. It’s bulshit.”
But the exact wording of Jobs’s attack on Google is up for dispute with Apple obsessive John Gruber of Daring Fireball claiming he actually said: “Don’t be evil is a load of crap.”
Adobe, which launched an attack on the Apple iPad’s lack of Flash support last week, also found itself in Jobs’s firing line. The anonymous Apple tipster claims Jobs called Abode “lazy”.
Jobs continued: “They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes, more often than not it’s because of Flash…the world is moving to HTML 5.”
Other interesting titbits emerging from Job’s talk to Apple staff include suggestions of a plan to push far more regular updates to the iPhone OS out in a bit to fight Google Android. Does that mean we can expect iPhone OS 4.0 to be just around the corner? Jobs apparently called the next update an “A+ update”.
While rumours of Apple iTunes in the cloud have swirled round for a while, Jobs apparently addressed Apple’s acquisition of streaming service Lala by claiming Apple was simply interested in bringing its people into the iTunes team.
There was a lot less love for Blu-ray though with Jobs branding it “a mess”. He also apparently claimed that 2010’s new Macbooks will “take Apple to the next level”.
Due TBA | £TBA | Apple (via Wired | Daring Fireball | Mac Rumours)
