Google Android business executives Sundar Pichai said on Twitter that he was excited to try out iOS7 beta and he would like to register as a Apple developer in order to experience iOS 7 early.
The real reason why Sundar Pichai expresses interest on iOS 7 is not yet known, but at least "Know thyself, ever-victorious" is correct. Because as a person who is in charge of Android, he should grasp the status of competitors in order to know what the Android system can improve.
However, Apple's iOS 7 application icon design received a lot of negative comments. Maybe Sundar Pichai will be happy about this, because the interface of Android Jelly Bean is not so ugly.
Actually to learn from competitors and then improve their own product is what we as consumers expect. This will help create a healthy competition environment. In contrast, now many competitions among companies are not so healthy, they may increase their users by criticizing other companies products