While Apple stays liquid, Google invests and makes the headlines: what is the best strategy?

I don’t know if you’ve heard it, but Google is making headlines. Yes actually. As Apple clings to its small fortune, Google decides to help Sprint and Clearwire Inc. close their deal to merge certain assets that accelerate WiMax development. Which for those of you who don’t know is Sprint’s only hope of competing with AT&T and Verizon, who are already developing the 4G network. But don’t worry, Google only paid part of the bill and shared it with other investors like Comcast and Intel. Its expected release date is the first quarter of next year.

Google also makes the headlines, albeit not in the best way, for underperforming the iPhone App Store by a significant margin. However, where Apple lacks easy-to-use open source apps, Google makes up for it, claiming to have hundreds of people developing apps for the new G1 (exclusive to T-Mobile). This was the death of the iPod and Apple’s stagnation in that industry, if you remember. So I wouldn’t say the battle is lost either.

Google made headlines again, claiming on its official blog, to have ordered 1 petabyte (or 1024 terabytes) in 68 seconds on 1,000 computers. This broke the previous record set by Yahoo and marks an astonishing advance in technology. Congratulations on that guys.

And finally, the news that Google doesn’t want you to know. Forbes tells us that Google is finally ditching bike riders collecting video images for Google Maps. I consider this to be a good cut. That technology was getting a little creepy. Members of the Google book search project were also included in the firings. Although it seemed that the ad-driven giant was not being affected by the economy, we learned about this. Sneaky Google, sneaky.