Steve Jobs has demanded that Google stop the recruitment of specialists Apple

The relationship between Apple and Google can never be described as simple and friendly. Fault to a number of objective and subjective reasons, and last week it became known about a conflict between the two companies, which was quickly resolved.

Reuters has published a letter from CEO Steve Jobs' Apple, sent in March 2007, Eric Schmidt, who was then a board member of Google, to stop the recruitment of one of the engineers, whose name was not specified, as well as put an end to active poaching of employees Apple.

"I would be very happy if your department recruitment would stop doing it" - says Jobs Schmidt.

It should be noted that the response to a message from Eric Schmidt was instantaneous. He immediately sent the appropriate instructions in this regard a number of top managers of Google, including personnel director, who in reply said that the officer who tried to entice the worker Apple, will be fired within an hour. An unnamed human resources manager, in turn, asked that his apologies were given to Jobs.

About this correspondence became known due to held in 2009 the U.S. Justice Department investigation over the practice of employees pereverbovki Google, Apple, Adobe Systems, Intel, Intuit Inc. and Pixar. It was then revealed that between Google and Apple acted on the tacit agreement to avoid such actions.