• Telegraph, Friday, July 2, 2010 2:16 PM

Steve who? Despite a flurry of development in the budding mobile arena, Google CEO Eric Schmidt says he has no desire to "beat" Apple. "That's not how we operate," he tells the UK's Telegraph. Rather, "We're trying to do something different than Apple and the good news is that Apple is making that very easy."

Translation? "The difference between the Apple model and the Google model is easy to understand," says Schmidt. "The Google model is completely open ... The Apple model is the inverse.' This week, Google released an update to its Android mobile operating system. Known as FroYo, the new operating system makes Android mobile phones up to five times faster and makes it possible to use the phone as a wireless hotspot. By the Telegraph's count, it marked the seventh update since Android launched in September 2008, and came just a week after Apple launched the iPhone 4.

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