Google's Eric Schmidt doesn't see board conflict with Apple? - Computerworld Blogs

A timely reality check; read the full article 

Sure Apple doesn't sell ads, and Google doesn't make hardware, but look at everything else. Google and Apple do compete in a number of areas. As I said before, there is a laundry list of categories in which they compete:

• Smartphone software. iPhoneOS vs. Android
• Webpage building software iWeb vs. Google Pages
• Calendar software - iCal vs. GCal
• Document writing software - iWork vs. Google apps (Docs, spreadsheets and presentations)
• Feed reading software Mail.app vs. Google reader.
• Email software Gmail vs. Mail.app
• OS Software: MacOS vs. Android Linux
• The both give away photo editing software - Picassa vs. iPhoto.
• Web Browsers (both based on the same Open Source Webkit and sold for free) Safari and Chrome
• Web Services with Apple's MobileMe and Google's Google Apps and Gmail.
• Video services - Youtube vs. iTunes

Google's Eric Schmidt doesn't see board conflict with Apple? - Computerworld Blogs