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"Google&amp;#039;s Eric Schmidt has opened up about the bitter rivalry between Apple&amp;#039;s iOS and the Android operating system. The internet giant&amp;#039;s executive chairman referred to the battle between the two platforms as the technology industry&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;defining fight&amp;quot; and expressed an affinity for both sides.   Schmidt claims that the sheer volume of devices sold makes Apple&amp;#039;s rivalry with Google more significant than even the iPhone maker&amp;#039;s contest with Microsoft in the desktop computer market. &amp;quot;The growth rate of mobile adoption exceeds everyone&amp;#039;s expectations every quarter,&amp;quot; he told AllThingsD. &amp;quot;The devices are becoming so useful that unless you&amp;#039;re a significant knowledge worker, you could probably live most of your life with your mobile device.&amp;quot; He went on to say that he has seen figures indicating that four Android handsets are sold to every iPhone, and predicted that the Google OS will be found on more than 1 billion handsets within a year. However, former Apple board member Schmidt named Apple as the company he would most like to be CEO of when quizzed on the matter, citing the fact that it &amp;quot;has the most cash&amp;quot; as his reason. Apple and Google are reported to have attended high-level peace talks recently in an effort to end the ongoing patent disputes plaguing the tech industry. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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