Google’s Eric Schmidt and Larry Page in Sun Valley

Gathering at the Allen & Company retreat in Sun Valley on Friday, Google’s head honchos talked down competition from Apple and explained how their search engine saves lives. Watch exclusive video of their remarks.

Is there one phone to rule them all? That is the question often posed to Apple and Google—but maybe it’s not the right one. Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt took issue with the assertion that his company and its competitors—most notably Apple and its iPhone—were involved in some sort of blood sport over the smartphone market. People "assume that these are zero-sum games, which are battles to the death," he said, proposing instead that the market is big enough for multiple approaches. "There's plenty of room for everyone."

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Can Google really predict pandemics more accurately than governments? That’s what Google co-founder Larry Page says, and it’s the reason he can brush off much of the privacy concerns that have given Google legal trouble recently. Page argues that storing private search data, such as people searching medical symptoms, could save “tens of million dollars,” and possibly many lives.

Video shot by Peter Lauria

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