“Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said last week that the competition between the two companies is more ‘brutal’ than ever,” Richard Nieva reports for CNET.
“But despite the fierce competition, when asked on Thursday night who his heroes are — in the tech industry and outside it — he had one answer: ‘For me, it’s easy. Steve Jobs,’ he said in a quiet, contemplative voice,” Nieva reports. “”‘We could all aspire to be a small percentage of Steve,’ he said of Apple’s late co-founder. Schmidt and former Google Senior Vice President of Products Jonathan Rosenberg were speaking to a full room of about 400 people at an event hosted by the Commonwealth Club of Silicon Valley, promoting their new book, ‘How Google Works.'”
Nieva reports, “In the book, Schmidt and Rosenberg describe Jobs as the quintessential ‘smart creative’ — an expression for someone with a combination of technical depth and creative talent. ‘Exceptional people are worth hanging out with,”‘ Schmidt said on Thursday. ‘Because there is a good chance they are going to change the world.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Exceptional people are worth hanging out with because there is a good chance they are going to change the world and then you can steal their ideas, implement them poorly, peddle them to the left side of the bell curve, and laugh your scheming, backstabbing ass all the way to the bank!
As a visual reminder of what “friendship” means to Eric T. Mole, here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
Here’s what cellphones looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
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don’t use goole – duck duck go!!!
I’ve been using it more and more. It still lacks in comparison, but I’m keeping at it. My Mac at home still uses Google (on Firefox), but my phone is all DDG. Slowly, but surely, going to hit Google where it hurts most…. advertising.
Yes! Since the advent of DDG, I’ve been google free and loving it every day!
I switched all of my devices the moment Apple included it as an option in the Safari prefs; its been working very well for me. As a bonus, I noticed it also uses open street maps as opposed to the location tracking engine otherwise known as Google Maps.
Yeah, Google is such a shitty company I’ve actually been using Bing up ’til now. You know it’s bad when Bing looks good… I’m thoroughly pleased having DDG throughout all my computers and iDevices now!
“Steve Jobs is my hero” Yeah the “hero” you stabbed in the back while pretending to be his friend. What a lying self serving prick.
Nothing like taking a big crap all over your hero Eric.
Gavin is right. Take out the 2nd “g” and it’s just a “goole”.
Ghoulgle?
Eric Schmidt should not be mentioned in the same sentence as Steve Jobs. Better yet, never mention him in any sentence.
For Schmidt the name of his “hero” was Stab Jobs
once more demonstrating, this man has no shame… not that that is any great secret.
but he is just so blatantly transparent….
Don’t be evil? Depends on what you mean by “evil”, right Mr. Schmidt?
(Sheep in Wolve’s clothing. Do not trust this person.)
There was an old Doctor Who episode where Sutekh says calmly, “Your evil is my good.”
Pyramids of mars
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum.
The Mole is a creep.
I dislike Google and don’t use any of their services apart from a throw away gmail account, but I utterly hate Schmiithead. Google are lucky the majority of fandroids have a low level of intelligence and are gullible enough to believe the crap that spews out of his mouth
It’s like discovering Charles Manson just liked your facebook profile.
hahahaha, good one.
‘Steve Jobs’ was his hero eh?
Funny way to show it, stealing ideas from steve’s company while he was on the board – until Steve found out what he was doing and sacked him.
The Schmidt took advantage of a dieing man and stole.
God he’s scum of the highest order!
I bet Steve jobs would have something a lot different to say about Eric if he was alive.
Yes. Would be nice if he showed one iota of actual respect for his “hero”.
‘We could all aspire to be a small percentage of Steve,’
Eric, you spoke your truth. Yours is getting smaller each day.
New book about how Google works. Which chapter covers being a mole spying on a company in which you are on the board of directors. Apparently this guy does not give respect to his heroes, just leeches off their creativity when they are alive and their justifiable reputation when they have passed.
Schmitthead even looks like a mole, a scrawny lowlife weasel. You can tell that he must have gotten picked on a lot in school. But his actions and blatant lies are much worse. Like Ballmer, he’s got all the money that one will ever need but his undying legacy will be that he was a mole who stabbed his “hero” in the back. Asshole…
That guy is such a piece of shit, speaking ill of the dead like that. He need to shut his yap and go crawl under a rock.
I really want to stop using Google for image searches, but no one else’s interface comes close
Dear Mr. Eric T. Mole,
Please. Please. PLEASE! Don’t EVER consider me a hero.
That is all.