Nick: Alright, moving on, how do you think Google's CEO joining Apple's board of directors will effect the company? Do you think it's pointing to a merger or just something against Microsoft or what?
Pete: I don't think it's pointing towards a merger. I just think that... Well it's hard for me to say... I was just going to say that I think Steve Jobs is too proud to let someone else control something that he's created, but that's definitely not true, I mean Apple got out of his control, he sold NeXT to Apple, and he's now sold Pixar to Disney so I guess he doesn't have a problem with strategic alliances and mergers that really make sense to him and that leave him with a lot of power but I would be surprised if Google and Apple were to merge, largely because the businesses are so different. Google is all about web-based software. In one way or another everything that they've ever done is a piece of software that lives on the Internet, or communicates directly through it, and Apple, though they've moved in a strong way into a software space, a lot of it is software that stays on your hard drive, a lot of it is strictly in service of hardware.
