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> Larry Page told Steve Jobs in 2010 that "There will always be places we compete, and places where we cooperate."

> After another meeting between Apple and Google senior executives, notes showed that the execs agreed: "Our vision is that we work as if we are one company."

> That is a damning little piece of evidence.

Looks like it’s exactly the meritocracies Google and Apple claim to be, nothing monopoly-like to be found here... /s

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They also cooperated on illegal recruiting practices to stifle tech wages:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust...

In business school lingo, this is called 'coopetition' which is just a portmanteau of the two positions: cooperation & competition.

In the DOJ’s world, it’s called collusion.

I think what the government calls it depends greatly on "donations" and promises of do-nothing "consulting" positions with outlandish salaries.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or serious, so I looked it up. It's for real.

I'm not sure that they invented the term but it was, and probably still is, prominent in the F.I.R.S.T. robotics competition.

At least in that context, as a mentor, I thought it was a decent message for the students. Work together to get the robots as good as possible so that you had an enjoyable competition.

https://www.firstinspires.org/

first time I read this but I'm not even surprised the term exists .. it's probably a natural and very old phenomenon right ?

And as we all know, everything between Google and Apple has remained exactly as it was in 2010

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