Schmidt: Google in industry’s ‘defining fight’ with Apple

BATTLE ROYALE: Google Inc executive chairman Eric Schmidt expects more than a billion mobile devices around the world to be running its Android software within a year, intensifying a battle with Apple Inc that he called a “defining fight” of the industry. — Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc executive chairman Eric Schmidt expects more than a billion mobile devices around the world to be running its Android software within a year, intensifying a battle with Apple Inc that he called a “defining fight” of the industry.

Schmidt said there were already four times as many Android mobile gadgets — smartphones and tablets made by the likes of Samsung Electronics — and that the scale of the battle between the two firms was unprecedented.