It is also wrong to say Apple has lesser leverage than Google. I think Apple far has more clout that Google, stretching for desktop computers to laptops, iTunes, iPod and the iPhone.

Google is king in search, and that is not disputed, but Apple is king in desktops, laptops, operating systems, iTunes, iPod and the iPhone and Google is the one playing catch up right now. No other company with maybe the exception of Microsoft has changed the computing landscape the way Apple has, Google does not even come close.

There is a big difference with having potential and being there. Apple is there, and Google has potential. And that's all.