Όπως δήλωσε ο CEO της Google, Eric Schmidt σε σχετική ερώτηση του Charlie Rose (BusinessWeek):
Charlie Rose:
You no longer serve on the Apple board. It is said Steve Jobs got very upset with you, his friend. I didn't go into the search business, he said. Why are you going into the phone business?
Eric Schmidt:
Apple is a company we both partner and compete with. We do a search deal with them, recently extended, and we're doing all sorts of things in maps and things like that. So the sum of all this is that two large corporations, both of which are important, both of which I care a lot about, will [remain] pretty close. But Android was around earlier than iPhone.