Should Apple and Google merge?
Should they? They both have a common enemy. Google for the longest time has been trying to get consumers to park more of their data with google. All efforts like 2GB storage with gmail or desktop search, or hosted office seem to be steps in that direction.
Apple offers a very different solution: iTunes today indexes all the music files, videos and also your contacts and calendar. It is trivial for it to do email and other files on your desk also. People who use iTunes and iPod swear by it and really trust and like it. If that becomes a conduit to google that could be powerful.
What would Apple get out of it?
Add comment September 4th, 2006
