In the course is also a little surprising that, Apple has announced that Monday, the executive director of Google Eric Schmidt was the resignation of its board of directors.

“Eric was an excellent member of the Board for Apple, investing your valuable time, talent, passion and wisdom to make the successful Apple”, the executive director of Apple, Steve Dzhobs said in the release. “Unfortunately, like Google and Apple is a major enterprise, with Android, and now Chrome OS, Erik Apple effectiveness as a council member will be substantially reduced, since it would have to recuse themselves from themselves, even more significant portion of our meeting because of the potential conflict interests. Thus, we mutually decided that the time is now for Eric to resign his position on the Apple board.

Executive Director of Google, Eric Schmidt

(Author: Elinor Mills / News CNET) Schmidt on the Apple board has been almost exactly three years since August 2006.

In May, Google has confirmed that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans to hold discussions about potential conflicts of interest related to Schmidt, the presence of both companies, boards of directors. Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, said at the time that Google does not believe there was a problem with the situation.

Schmidt said that he has recused himself from the Apple discussion board relating to the areas in which company interests coincide - for iPhone, for example, taking into account the work of Google Android operating system for smartphones. But the resemblance grew more difficult to reconcile, when Google announced the development of its Chrome operating system that will directly compete with Apple in the OS. (The company already has a competing browser in Apple Safari and Google’s Chrome.)

Last month, Schmidt said that he plans to discuss his future role on the Apple board, taking into account the emergence of Chrome OS.

Most recently, the potential competitive turf becomes apparent when Google’s third-party applications for the iPhone - which comes with a pre-Google Maps - began to receive wide publicity check from Apple. Google location-aware service breadth, for example, was restricted to the web application, but not installed, and the Google voice telephony app was rejected by a simple Apple.

Last week a report surfaced that the Federal Commission sent letters of inquiry Apple, Google, iPhone and carrier AT & T on the square blocked.

Federal Trade Commission, while also exploring the relationship between Apple and Google. On Monday, the FTC told her that he would continue the investigation, even if Schmidt’s departure from the Apple board.

“We have been investigating Google / Apple interlocking directorates issue for some time and commend them for recognizing that the exchange directors raises competitive issues, like Google and Apple are increasingly competing with each other,” Richard Feinstein, director of the FTC Bureau of Competition , said in a statement. “We will continue to investigate the rest of interlocking directorates between companies.”