For several years the Boards of Directors of Google and Apple were a few members in common. As soon as the activities of Google and Apple are increasingly overlap, the companies were under pressure from U.S. antitrust authorities. They were forced to abandon the friendship.

Arthur Levinson, recently left the board of directors of Google, was the last manager, who was the head of both companies. Earlier, from his post at Apple declined to Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Under American law is the same person can not enter the leadership of competing companies. In the last two years of Google and Apple are increasingly overlap. Search engine released mobile operating system, appeared guglofony. In addition, Google is going to create its own operating system.

But the relationship Google and Apple can spoil not only because of the pressure of competition authorities. So in Android do not support multitouch, but it is in the iPhone, which makes guglofony less competitive compared with phones Apple.

Apple is not so long ago acquired a startup Placebase, which specializes in mapping software. Currently, Google Maps is preinstalled in the iPhone. It is possible that in the future Apple will complete the phone’s own navigation software.