Apple CEO Tim Cook appears to be open to a friendlier relationship with Google than Steve Jobs ever was. Cook got spotted dining with Google CEO Sundar Pichai at one of the top Vietnamese restaurants in Silicon Valley this week. What the two powerful tech leaders were discussing is still a mystery, though.
Here’s another angle:
Pichai and Cook were dining at Tamarine Restaurant in Palo Alto, which is neutral territory for the world’s two biggest tech companies. It looks like they’re both having a glass of wine, but based on the body language, neither looks totally relaxed.
The meeting between the two tech titans is reminiscent of 2010 when Jobs was spotted getting coffee with Eric Schmidt (Google’s CEO at the time). Tensions between Apple and Google were at an all-time high after the Android operating system ripped off many of the iPhone’s features.
Jobs vowed to go thermonuclear on Google for what he called “grand theft.” The company then launched a series of lawsuits against the world’s top Android smartphone manufacturer, Samsung.
Hopefully, Tim’s dinner with Sundar ends on friendlier terms.
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
15 responses to “Tim Cook spotted dining with Google CEO”
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
Maybe Sundar is trying to get a job with Apple.
All joking on my part aside, my first thoughts upon seeing that photo and reading the article was that those two were discussing, among other things, the recent Wikileaks CIA data breach and how Apple and Google could further strengthen their respective products against future zero day attacks.
if they can hack iPhones, then why do they have thousands of iPhones that they can’t hack into? I mean, they can always do some degree of hacking, but if they can hack an iPhone, why would they need a court order to do it? Probably because they can’t hack into them. Apple’s always adding ways to not hack the device every time they find a new hole to plug.
You have to have at lot of time on your hands or a complete sleezball two photograph to people through a window having dinner. This is not journalism, it’s voyarism.
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Despite their differences, they came together because of 2 words: President Trump.
Is this a joke? The images are clearly photoshopped
I like the idea – and whoever photoshopped this likes it too ;-)
Thanks to Trump :)
Ad revenue getting lower or what CultofMac? The image is clearly fake.
Jobs was pissed about Android, before and even after the two companies had great relationships. Remember that the first iphone had google map and itunes installed by default, if I remember right. And among the people he met with right before he passed was Larry page… to share some thoughts.
I hear from a friend who is roommates with a woman who is the sister of a guy who’s dating the cousin of the waiter that they were strategizing their fantasy baseball teams.
“Tensions between Apple and Google were at an all-time high after the Android operating system ripped off many of the iPhone’s features.”
Seeing as how no unique company is legally allowed to mass-market a product that has no concurrency, or competition, Google at that time would have been under at least obligation, most likely paid for, planned and directed by government to produce Android.
Another way of looking at it is, as the famous English saying goes, “They all piss in the same pot”, well, at least on this occasion they would have done.