Google Apple 6 Month Rule on Touching

Six months ago Eric Schmidt the CEO of Google resigned from the board of directors at Apple at the beginning of August 2009 so was a 6 month rule enacted?

In the Urban Dictionary after six months without sex, a man may have sex with anyone he see’s fit so was this applied in regard to multitouch on Android after Eric has gone approximately 6 months without “inter-coursing” with Apple?

The actual resignation announcement came on August 3rd, 2009 but I agree with Sean Riley at AndroidandMe the actual resignation itself may have occurred the day before which would be exactly 6 months prior to the February 2nd, 2010 pinch to zoom availability announcement for the Nexus One.

A year ago it was even reported that Apple also didn’t want the G1 to have a 3.5mm headphone jack due to one of its patents.

Steve Jobs may have understood he needed to prepare and rile up his troops a week before Android released those shackles by reportedly stating, “Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them.”

I am curious if the shackles are off on the reported gentlemen’s aggreement not to recruit and poach each others employees especially those working on mobile.

*** The other unofficial 6 month rule is that if you are over someone within 6 months then that means you were never really in love with them in the first place ***

Perhaps as MG Siegler, an admitted Apple fanboy, at TechCrunch pointed out the gloves may have really come off between Google and Apple.

The question is will the Apple App Store accept this Fight Club app.