"Google and Apple fighting" definition "

San Francisco: Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (Eric Sc ​​hmidt) around the world is expected to more than 1 billion mobile devices will run Android software within a year, to strengthen the battle with Apple His so-called "the defined battle" industry.


Schmidt said, there have been four times, the battle between the two companies in many Android phones gadgets - like smart phones and tablet PCs, Samsung Electronics - the scale is unprecedented.


Said: "We have not seen the competitiveness of this scale fighting," he said, science and technology in an interview with reporters the blog AllThingsDigital Wednesday in New York, the 92nd Street Y


Google and Apple have intimate partners, Google CEO Eric Schmidt as he served as Apple's board members. Google Andr oid the rise of the mobile operating system, now the world's leading smartphone platform, and a direct threat to Apple's lucrative iPhone and iPad enterprise, but the relationship between the two has been tight.


Due to the competition between the two companies has been intense, Apple has cut its selection of pre-loaded Google product dumping new iPhone application to replace YouTube Google Maps software to use its own map services rely on the iPhone.


Apple's entry into the mapping is not smooth. Apple CEO Tim Cook (Tim Cook) was forced to issue a public apology, junior high school products this month - glaring geographical error - Dutch navigation device manufacturers and digital map maker TomTom NV-based data and information gaps complaints.


"Apple has learned is that the map is really difficult," Schmidt said. "We have invested hundreds of millions of dollars working satellites, aircraft, drive, get accurate map."


But, he added, these two technologies company "always communicate with each other."


Schmidt also said he did not expect Google to become important players in any time soon, following a confrontation with the government in 2010, Internet censorship and cyber attacks, Google said originated in China.


Relocated to the episode in the search engine Google, Chinese search engine Baidu to expand its leading position in the Chinese world, the Google search engine is not dominated by one of the few markets.


"Baidu will continue to be the number one player in a very long time," Schmidt said. He said he did not expect any tinkering with the Chinese government, he said, cutting off access to Google's Web services in the past.


, "Schmidt said:" China has arbitrarily limit the access of Chinese citizens in their power to maintain our market share in any percentage they want. (Reuters)