Can Google make India a hub for mobile phone assembly like Apple?

Steve Jobs, according to his biography by Walter Isaacson, once vowed to launch a “thermonuclear war” on Google because he thought the latter’s mobile platform, Android, was a “stolen product”.

Before Android, they worked closely together. Eric Schmidt, who served as Google’s Chairman, served on Apple Inc’s board. In a turn of events, he left the board because of the conflict between the iPhone and Android.

This trend of switching between friendship and enmity has continued over the years; most recently, Bloomberg reported, quoting unnamed sources, that Apple was in talks to build Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence into iPhones.