How the Google-Apple cloud partnership will work

February 12th, 2008 | Category: Tech News

Nick Carr has the full explanation. See here. Right now the only companies that can ability a cloud are Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, IBM and Amazon. Figure Yahoo and Microsoft merge. That means four big back-end players and the two best will be Google and Amazon. Fact is we’ll play with any of them but we’re tight with Google and whether I

had to bet on a one horse it would be Google. So what would each of us do? It’s pretty simple. Money quote: “Apple would sell the hardware, and Google would subsidize the cost of supplying the servers with advertising, just as it does in other businesses in which it works.”

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