Google Stealing Apple’s Ideas And Other Tales Of Accidental Corporate Espionage – 247dailypress.com 07/12/2009 This morning I woke up and saw an interesting headline on Techmeme from Forbes writer Brian Caulfield: Why Google Is Stealing Apple’s Ideas . Wow, a story involving two of the world’s largest technology companies and scandal? This was going to be good. And then I read the story, which turned out to be a strange hit job on Google for no apparent reason, trying to imply that Google has somehow bypassed Apple’s “renowned secrecy” and used its ideas to foster the development of its new Chrome OS .

Netbooks running Chrome OS, Google’s newly announced operating system, may be available later this year, according to a report from Reuters, which quoted Google chief executive Eric Schmidt at the Allen & Company media and technology conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 9.“Everybody we’ve talked to under nondisclosure is excited about the plan,” Schmidt told Reuters.