Google, Apple tussle over ad rule change
By Michael Liedtke |
June 11, 2010, Friday
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GOOGLE Inc thinks its increasingly bitter rival Apple Inc is trying to muscle it out of the mobile advertising competition on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
The latest dispute between the Silicon Valley powerhouses centers on a proposed change that could hobble Google's ability to sell and place ads on devices running on Apple's latest mobile operating system, which comes out this month.
Omar Hamoui, the executive in charge of Google's newly acquired mobile ad service, AdMob, attacked Apple's new restrictions in a blog posting on Wednesday as a threat to competition. He also warned the change would decrease the ad revenue flowing to the developers of iPhone and iPad applications, a scenario that could drive up the prices that consumers pay for the programs.
Apple didn't immediately return calls seeking comment.
Google paid US$750 million to buy AdMob, partly because of AdMob's success selling ads on the iPhone.
AdMob, founded in 2006, was so good at it that Apple wanted to buy the company before being trumped by Google last fall.
Apple has since set up own ad service, iAd, fueling Google's suspicion that its rival wants to monopolize the commercial messages shown on the more than 50 million iPhones and iPads that have already been sold.
Under the terms of Apple's latest operating system for those devices, critical information for distributing and analyzing ads won't be shared with services owned by makers of other mobile operating systems.
That threatens to lock out AdMob because Google's Android operating system competes with the iPhone.
That could be a major blow to AdMob, which distributed 30 percent of its ads to iPhones, iPads and iPods in April.
Hamoui indicated he still hopes to persuade Apple to scrap the change in the rule.
The latest dispute between the Silicon Valley powerhouses centers on a proposed change that could hobble Google's ability to sell and place ads on devices running on Apple's latest mobile operating system, which comes out this month.
Omar Hamoui, the executive in charge of Google's newly acquired mobile ad service, AdMob, attacked Apple's new restrictions in a blog posting on Wednesday as a threat to competition. He also warned the change would decrease the ad revenue flowing to the developers of iPhone and iPad applications, a scenario that could drive up the prices that consumers pay for the programs.
Apple didn't immediately return calls seeking comment.
Google paid US$750 million to buy AdMob, partly because of AdMob's success selling ads on the iPhone.
AdMob, founded in 2006, was so good at it that Apple wanted to buy the company before being trumped by Google last fall.
Apple has since set up own ad service, iAd, fueling Google's suspicion that its rival wants to monopolize the commercial messages shown on the more than 50 million iPhones and iPads that have already been sold.
Under the terms of Apple's latest operating system for those devices, critical information for distributing and analyzing ads won't be shared with services owned by makers of other mobile operating systems.
That threatens to lock out AdMob because Google's Android operating system competes with the iPhone.
That could be a major blow to AdMob, which distributed 30 percent of its ads to iPhones, iPads and iPods in April.
Hamoui indicated he still hopes to persuade Apple to scrap the change in the rule.
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