Google CEO Eric Schmidtâs departure from the Apple board can be most directly linked to the rejection of the Voice app from the App Store, which has sparked a probe by the Federal Communications Commission, Erick Schonfeld writes for TechCrunch: âGoogle brought down the disapproving scrutiny of the FCC onto Apple on Friday night, and on Monday morning Schmidt resigned. It is difficult not to make a connection.â But, Schonfeld writes, there is a deeper conflict.
Apple honcho Steve Jobs didnât mention the FCC in a statement, Schonfeld writes, but did say Googleâs dabbling in mobile markets is âincreasingly becoming a âconflict of interestâ for Schmidt.â Googleâs ambitionsâit âwants the mobile Web to be as open as the Internetââput it in conflict with an Apple that âis not about being open,â Schonfeld writes. âGoogle is not so much the enemy of Microsoft as it is the enemy of the old model of device-centric computing which both Microsoft and Apple represent.â (More Steve Jobs stories.)