{"id":4473,"date":"2015-07-08T10:18:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T10:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=4473"},"modified":"2016-02-29T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T11:55:18","slug":"the-greatest-tech-rivalries-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/the-greatest-tech-rivalries-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Tech Rivalries of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple Music launched last week and people promptly discussed whether or not it was going to kill Spotify, the other big player in the music streaming market.<\/p>\n

To date, the war between the two services has been fairly tame but history suggests things might get nasty as competition heats up.<\/p>\n

And, if history is anything to go by, that means we should get no end of entertaining quotes and rivalries from the main players. Here are some of our favourite tech dust-ups of all time!<\/p>\n

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\"Android<\/a><\/p>\n

Apple vs. Google<\/h3>\n

Apple vs. Google is a tragic tale of good friends becoming mortal enemies. In 2001, fresh-faced Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin apparently met up with Steve Jobs and asked him to become their CEO. Jobs declined, as he was busy running a multi-billion company of his own, but was so flattered by the request that he took the young entrepreneurs under his wing.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, things went sour shortly after Apple launched the iPhone. In 2008, a year after the iPhone was launched, the first Android phone was released. Jobs, noting the similarities, was furious and apparently felt as though he had been betrayed. The war had begun.<\/p>\n

According to Steve <\/em>Jobs, a biography by Walter Isaacson, Jobs was so angry about the similarities between Android and iOS that he declared he was going to \u201cdestroy Android, because it\u2019s a stolen product\u201d\u009d. In an email to Apple employees in 2010, he declared \u201d\u02dcholy war\u2019 on Google\u2019s OS.<\/p>\n

Since then, it\u2019s been a near constant game of one-upmanship. Apple dropped Google Maps in favour of their own product, which Google has responded to by launching pretty much every one of their services on the iOS App Store. The latest shot fired is the introduction of ad blockers in iOS 9, which could affect Google\u2019s huge advertising revenue.<\/p>\n

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\"Samsung<\/a><\/p>\n

Samsung vs. Apple<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Waged in courts across the globe since 2010, the Samsung\/Apple war has cost billions of dollars in legal fees and made a lot of law firms very, very rich.<\/p>\n

It all started when Samsung launched the Galaxy S, which Apple designer\u2019s felt was pretty much a complete rip off of the iPhone. Apple opened legal proceedings shortly after, which Samsung responded to by launching a few lawsuits of their own.<\/p>\n

The feud appeared to be over in 2012, when Apple was awarded over \u00a31 billion in damages from Samsung. However, Samsung appealed and the case is still <\/em>ongoing. A recent judgement declared the damages must be recalculated.<\/p>\n

There is an end in sight, however: last year, the companies dropped all litigation outside of the US, while, in an amazing twist, Samsung will apparently supply the microprocessors for the next iPhone<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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