Summary:<p>"Google published its own version of events leading up to releasing Latitude as a browser app instead of a native app. Apple hasn't said anything one way or the other, and we so-called journalists are too lazy to fact check by asking anyone for comment or coming up with an independent source or even talking to the author of the Google piece.<p>"So we just made up a whole bunch of suppositions and conjectures, bolted on an inflammatory title about Apple screwing Google, and watch the click-through ad revenue roll in."<p>Is it any wonder that journalism is in a crisis?<p>p.s. Note that I'm not saying the piece is or isn't accurate. Just that it lacks any evidence that the author did a speck of research, fact-checking, or obtained corroboration for his article. That's what I'm blasting.
I'm repeating myself, but I find it funny that this is happening just a bunch of days after Google claimed that appstores are not the future and that the future is browser apps.<p>I'm not saying that Apple has been fair or that I wouldn't like more openness from them.
well Apple (iPhone) and Google (Android) are competitors.. Its good business sense I believe. The point on the iPhone is moot anyway because without background processing (&) its a useless and pointless app/webpage.
Even shorter summary: for some reason or other, which may involve Apple, Google's Latitude was released as an iPhone webapp, and not in the App Store.<p>Followed by a dozen paragraphs of pointless speculation.