Ten years ago, Google’s co-founders were on the look out for a new chief executive officer to take control of the company. They interviewed over ten potential candidates for the position, but none of them apparently fit the role. During the process however, they met with Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, and it was seemingly love at first sight. In their perfect world, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google, would’ve loved for Steve Jobs to take the reins at Google HQ, but as we know too well, Jobs had other plans.

Yesterday, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, who just happens to be a member of Apple’s board of directors, detailed the fine line on which he is walking. This line has to do with the relationship between the iPhone and the mobile operating system currently being worked on by Google. Although the Google OS, named Android, has more »