{"id":5887,"date":"2007-09-10T11:50:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T11:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/apple-google-and-itexpo.html"},"modified":"2007-09-10T11:50:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T11:50:24","slug":"apple-google-and-itexpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/apple-google-and-itexpo.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Google and ITEXPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I was up pretty early today and had a chance to take in lots of news while listening to CNBC, Bloomberg, reading Barons and any website I could get my hands on. Perhaps the biggest news in the telecom space today comes from Apple (disclosure I own Apple share) who announced today they sold 1,000,000 iPhones. That is quite a big number for such a short amount of time. In addition they will likely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/sep2007\/tc20070910_014733.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_top+story\">bid<\/a> on the 700 MHz auction which CNBC commentators will tell you allows them to bypass AT&amp;T.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">What they don&rsquo;t say is how complicated and time consuming it would be to develop a nationwide wireless network. Not that this can&rsquo;t be done of course and perhaps an acquisition of Alltel would help.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">This got me thinking about how Apple and Google seem to have their interests aligned more and more each day.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I wonder if there will be a more formal alignment of interests between Google and Apple or will we see the companies become competitive. We all know (ok a bit presumptuous but my blog readers are always a step ahead \ud83d\ude09 ) Google is rumored to be coming out with a Gphone soon.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I get the feeling we will see some major news soon about how the two companies have aligned their strategies. Google insiders are likely aware they aren&rsquo;t able to out-Apple Apple so there is a chance they will never launch their phone. Instead, Google will likely pay Apple and have their apps loaded on the iPhone and design a suite of iPhone ready apps.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I am ITEXPO today and getting ready for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/voip\/conference\/west-07\/w-07-special-attractions.htm#reseller\">Reseller Solutions Day<\/a>. I look forward to speaking to the many resellers and others in the room.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was up pretty early today and had a chance to take in lots of news while listening to CNBC, Bloomberg, reading Barons and any website I could get my hands on. Perhaps the biggest news in the telecom space today comes from Apple (disclosure I own Apple share) who announced today they sold 1,000,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,171,163,199,197,188,156,189,118,177,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}