Apple vs. Google: Tech's Newest Rivalry?

I think it's less a rivalry than a kind of surprised CYA response to the new administration's ramped-up FTC, FCC enforcement.

This made me laugh: "[Apple] relies more than any other tech company on so-called 'native code'…"

Pretty interesting match-up really: ruthless efficiency versus individuality; process versus personality; open versus closed; workaday versus sublime; dauntingly powerful Borgian collective versus one man's vision.

so which one is Google and which one is Apple

dauntingly powerful Borgian collective

Indeed. I'm not sure Apple will put up much of a fight. Resistance is futile.

How fickle are our tastes, and how brief our memories.

Not long ago, Google was roundly denounced as a privacy-invading censorious copyright enforcer extending its monopolistic tendrils into every aspect of our lives.

Then Apple started doing stupid crap with its mobile platform, and suddenly Google is truth and justice and freedom and puppies.

How long until it swings round again?

webware vs fashionware

Nop, not a rivalry.