[yanw]

But Eric Schmidt did not say that the app was submitted:

“You’ll need to discuss that with Apple” (at around 17:50). “Apple has a policy of approving or disapproving apps that are submitted into its store, and some of them they approve and some of them they don’t,”

(via http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/googles-eric-schmidt-says-t...)

[eridius]

It's really easy to read that comment as meaning "we've submitted it, ball's in Apple's court". And I'm sure Schmidt knew that when he said it.

[yanw]

It's much too vague and subtle to warrant an official statement in my opinion.

[eridius]

If Apple hadn't said anything, in a few weeks we'd see people complaining about evil Apple holding back their precious Google product.

[defap]

Sure, but if the app hasn't been submitted, then what is there to discuss with Apple? What is he talking about?

[yanw]

I got the impression that he was talking in generalities.

[cbs]

TechCrunch reporting on misrepresentation of a quote that TechCrunch originally read too much into?

This is my surprised face.