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Apple vs. Google in Mobile

Read a good article in Business Week titled " Apple vs. Google " about how the two companies are on a collision course for each other. The recent acquisitions of AdMob (by Google for $750M) and Quattro Wireless (by Apple for $275M) and the uncanny similarities between the iPhone and the Nexus One highlight how similar the two firms strategies may be. They both want to dominate the mobile industry. According to the analysts, mobile is the next key battleground for digital riches: The key battleground in the near term is mobile computing. Analysts who once tingled when talking about the Internet are getting that same old feeling over mobile's potential. Morgan Stanley's ( MS ) Mary Meeker predicts that within five years more users will tap into the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs. Desktop Internet use led to the rise of Google, eBay ( EBAY ), and Yahoo, but the mobile winners are still emerging. "Now is the time to get going," says Doug Clinton