Is Apple dropping Akamai in favor of Google?

Rumors lately have spread around saying that Apple might switch its content delivery from Akamai to Google. Swiss American Securities, a division of Credit Suisse is saying that it has learned that Apple will no longer use Akamai. They see Apple dumping Akamai for a Google-based content distribution network and expect Apple to announce that next week at Macworld.

No details have been given, but I doubt the news. iTunes for instance relies on Akamai for it's music and video download service. And what can Google offer that Akamai can not? OK, Google is Google and so they can build anything they want, but still. Where is the value of the deal? Google is primarily an advertising company, and I don't see the match with Apple's business. Of course Google and Apple work and will work together on certain business deals such as advertising in iTunes and iPhones; or use Google as the standard search engine.

Anyway, we at Telemak continue to work with Akamai, a 9 year old relationship. We have served hundreds of customers and Petabytes of data using Akamai without a glitch. Why even think to switch when you have a winning team?

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