“Dear Eric Schmidt: It’s time for you to go,” Tom Krazit writes for CNET. “Not from Google; even your biggest detractor would give you credit for the technological marvel and prosperous business you have helped create in Mountain View. But your position on Apple’s board of directors now looks completely untenable given Google’s intention to release a lightweight operating system for personal computers called Chrome OS.”
“It was pretty clear before, but now it’s completely obvious: you are overseeing two companies on a collision course,” Krazit writes. “How can you possibly claim that you’re guiding the best interests of each company when the best interest of each company in two years will be to out-maneuver the other?”
“And the thing is, we’ve had this conversation before,” Krazit writes. “When Google announced plans to develop Android, a smartphone operating system that competes with Apple’s iPhone OS for consumer and developer attention, you said you would recuse yourself from any discussions about the iPhone during meetings of Apple’s board… So, do you now plan to recuse yourself from any board meetings in which Mac OS X development is discussed?”
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MacDailyNews Take: But, we need Eric on the board for his deep iPod insights.
