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I agree that the obsession against Google is hurting Apple, but I also feel that Apple is not the only company with a vendetta against Google. Twitter, Facebook, Yammer, Mozilla, and Dropbox are a few names that come to mind off of the top of my head. One thing that all of these companies have in common is that they had a product, and Google came though (or is coming) with its machine to copy/paste it as a Google product (Android, Buzz, Google+, Chrome, Google Drive).

Granted--That's what Google does; They take a product like search, mail, or maps and make it a lot better. Most of what Google creates up is top notch, but I think that Google may actually be the company isolating themselves from the rest of the software development community in the long run.

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Google Cop/Paste? Lets see: Apple -> Did not invent SmartPhone (In fact google invent smart phone since Motorola is part of Google now). Facebook -> Did not invent Social Network. Dropbox -> Did not invent File Sync.

So how do you justify your copy/paste comment other than hate?

I never claimed that any of those companies invented any of the technologies. I'm just saying that after those companies became huge successes in their respective business segments, Google came though after the incumbents with a goal to gain market share. Android did come out after iOS was huge, Google+ did come out after Facebook was huge, Drive came out after Dropbox was huge, Buzz came out after Twitter was huge, Chrome came out after Firefox was huge, and so on with Search (Altavista/Lycos/Yahoo), Flights (Kayak, Cheaptickets), Offers (Living Social,Groupon), Mail (Hotmail, Yahoo), Play (iTunes), Maps (Mapquest), Talk (AIM, ICQ) etc...

None of the companies that Google copied invented their segments. It does seem that their aim to make each respective Google version of any product better they seem to piss off the incumbent companies. It's all just business and some of those endeavors that Google perused are awesome (Android, Maps, Gmail), and others aren't that great (Buzz, Google+). But in the end, all of the incumbent companies seem to get mad at Google and that's why I think that Google may be getting hurt more in the long run.

Isn't Mozilla funded by Google?

Yes but Mozilla would drop google if they wanted to, they could probably get a decent chunk from microsoft for making bing search the default(I think they use Yandex as the main search provider in russia for a while).

Chrome competes with firefox but mozilla has no beef with google.

yep.