Google sings praises for the iPhone

White iPhone 4 image by Evanchn1

“Whenever iPhone succeeds, Google succeeds,” Google’s Asia-Pacific president Daniel Alegre tells AdNews. Welcome to the new Google. Even though Apple and Google are currently embroiled in a brutal iPhone versus Android war, the two tech giants maintain a frenemy relationship.
The search monster needs those iPhone eyeballs and Alegre’s comment helps alleviate the issues some iPhone users are having over Android’s success in the marketplace. Re-iterating 300,000 Android activations a day and explaining how mobile benefits from as few platforms as possible, he then launched into the iPhone appraisal:

I actually don’t look at it as iPhone versus Android. iPhone is a very strong driver of query growth for Google. We also monetise apps through the iPhone..we actually benefit from iPhone’s growth.

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