Stories with “high drama about competitors” are good for selling news. So the general media often will focus on stories where Apple and Google are pitted against each other in some manner.
Yet, certain products of these companies can be described as BFF (Best Friends Forever). Consider how well Apple’s iPhone, iPad and IOS 5 based MAC products work with the Google Apps For Business cloud computing solution. Google Apps brings enterprise quality multi-user app integration across all the platforms while also allowing companies to support a mix of Apple and non-Apple hardware devices. Here are some reasons why.
Eric Schmidt Google’s CEO from 2001-2011 (now Executive Chairman) often refers to himself as a “Proud Former Member” of Apple’s Board of Directors, a role he held for 3 years. And he holds the work of Steve Jobs in high regard.
What Steve has done at Apple is certainly the best performance of a CEO for over fifty years, maybe a hundred years,” Schmidt proclaimed
Equally, Larry Page, Google co-founder and current CEO, is not shy about expressing respect and admiration of Steve Jobs, Apple CEO and creator of the iPhone.
The late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs reached out to offer Google CEO Larry Page support as he took the reins at Google. The classy move showed strength of his character, despite the rivalries between Google and Apple.
Another demonstration of this is the technology market itself, as outlined in this GIGOOM.com article. It’s not Google vs. Apple. It is Apple & Google vs. the old way highlights how rapid adoption of smart-phones with Internet connectivity as a core element of their genetic make-up play a role in causing Apple and Google to often think alike vs differently. Yet each company has its own market focus – Apple is primarily a device and product company, while Google more a software and services company.
Ultimately this is all good news for users of Cloud Computing solutions. Particularly Google Apps For Business – today’s leading Cloud-based productivity apps offering for businesses. Availability of advanced standard protocols has allowed iPhone users to reap benefit of “enterprise category” services made available on their iPhone with no additional carrier service costs. When properly configured, iPhone users can the device’s native mail, contact and calendar apps while still gaining 100% wireless sync of Google Apps for Business data between all desktop and/or mobile devices.
This critical synchronization process of daily operations data (Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Docs, Videos, Map and more) can all be layered under protection of the company’s private Domain. Using GAFYD.net – Google Apps For Your Domain gives benefit of centralized administrative management and control of all cloud resources no matter what size the user community is. Data is current and consistent, regardless of the mobile device (iPhone or Android), the wireless carrier used or the PC operating system.
For example, the enterprise quality sharing Calendaring adjusts appointment times for any global time-zone a traveler might visit, and phone numbers are immediately available even if just a WiFi connection exists. Companies using “Google Apps For Business” as their foundation data communication system even provide their individual employees automatic backup of their critical data for when their mobile device is lost, stolen or inoperable.
As we do more mobile computing with unending variety of new devices you want to have a strategy for keeping data secure, consistently synchronized and recoverable! Be sure to obtain professional guidance and advice about what the best solution is for your company.
