Google Codes No Evil (For the iPhone, At Least)

Google officially introduced an iPhone-optimized Google.com--just go to Google.com on your iPhone to see it (or just look at the picture on the right). The coolest feature is the auto-suggestion.

There aren’t many companies that would improve the functionality of a competing product, but Google continues to do that with the iPhone. Google is smart enough to know that people using mobile Google search is more important than the success of their Android mobile OS.

Reader for iPhone Gets Updated

It's nice to know Google employees are taking the time to improve the iPhone and not just writing phone OS's to compete with it. Google employee Dolapo Falola announces he's used his 20% creative time to improve Google Reader for the iPhone. Reader is my #1 iPhone web app, so I'm glad to hear it. For his efforts, Dolapo got hired onto the Google Reader team.

Am I the only one who thinks that if Steve Ballmer got wind of a Microsoft employee improving the functionality of the iPhone, that employee would be f-i-r-e-d? Maybe that's why Microsoft is losing equity like crazy. D-e-s-p-e-r-a-t-e for growth, I guess.