Does it make any sense that Google CEO Eric Schmidt would tell a group at the first Techonomy Conference in Lake Tahoe, Calif., that he “loves the success of the iPhone"?
Not on the surface, no. After all, Apple’s signature product is the chief rival of Google’s Android operating system. However, he told the group, according to CNET, that since the iPhone uses Google’s search, his company gets a nice lump of revenue from all of those iPhone users surfing the mobile Web. That’s money that can be turned around and used in its battle royale for smartphone OS supremacy.
Schmidt said consumers are buying 200,000 new Android devices every day. That number has doubled in just two months. An independent report from research firm Canalys released earlier this week seems to back that up. It said Android phone sales rose 88 percent in Q2. Motorola and HTC handsets were the biggest sellers in the U.S during that period.
