Apple and Google Officially In Bed Together

Dr. Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, was named to the board of directors at Apple today. Read the press release from Apple.

Schmidt arrived at Google after a stints as the CEO of Novell and as the CTO of Sun, where he headed the company's Java group. He's also an alum of Xerox PARC. Since landing at the search company, he has supervised Google's marked growth through rapid development of a wide range of web services. With this move, Apple is hoping Schmidt will put some of his experience steering a company with diversified products through a fickle marketplace to use.

So Sayeth Steve Jobs:

"Eric is obviously doing a terrific job as CEO of Google, and we look forward to his contributions as a member of Apple's board of directors... Like Apple, Google is very focused on innovation and we think Eric's insights and experience will be very valuable in helping to guide Apple in the years ahead."

OK, prediction time. Google and Apple team up to distribute music and movies (for real this time)? Google tools integrated into Mac OS X? Maybe -- at the very least -- Google Desktop for the Mac?

All signs point to good things ahead. As Valleywag notes, this is a sad day in Redmond, WA.