Arch rivals! Bitter enemies! Coffee lovers! We’ve read plenty on the supposed relationships — personal and business — between Google and Apple, and how they’ve broken down over the past year or so. But, sure enough, Gizmodo snagged a shot of Apple’s CEO and Google’s CEO sharing a table and having a cup o’ joe (and some juice, too). Steve Jobs, clad in his trademark black mock turtleneck, jeans and New Balance sneakers, and Eric Schmidt, going a little more business casual sans tie with khakis, a pullover and shoes that likely cost more than you make in a month.
Anyhoo, Giz’s tipster reportedly overheard a couple of lines: “They’re going to see it all eventually so who cares how they get it,” and “Let’s go discuss this somewhere more private.”
Giz opines that “it” has something to do with Web content, which could well be true. Or maybe it’s about Apple’s recently lawsuit against HTC (and by proxy, Google’s Android OS). Or it could be those long-rumored incriminating pictures from the 2002 Apple board meeting that are rumored to have involved an iPhone prototype, three strips of bacon and two cans of Cheese Whiz. Insert your own caption, basically.
So does the fact that they were “caught” (or seen precisely where their PR folks wanted them to be seen, more likely) on a neutral site (as in out of eithers’ office, though apparently the cafe’s owned by former Google exec Charlie Ayers) mean anything? Who knows. But it makes for great fodder, doesn’t it? One more pic after the break.
