“A guy who hates camping is an odd fit for an anarchic, weeklong community-building experiment in the Nevada wilderness,” Tate reports. “Each day, to attend Burning Man 2007, Schmidt would drive two and half hours from his Reno hotel to get there, and then two and a half hours to return and avoid sleeping on the dirt.”
“Schmidt’s extraordinary Burning Man commute betrayed an extraordinary hunger to connect with his peers, and especially at the desert event, with Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google’s co-founders and his closest associates,” Tate reports. “Brin and Page are said to have arrived at the desert festival by helicopter. They were friendly but not exactly friends with Schmidt; nearly two decades younger than the CEO with whom they share power, Brin and Page ended up spending their real buddy time in the desert with other people.”
Tate reports, “Schmidt’s most memorable interaction from that year’s Burning Man, then, would be his ferocious roadside parting with Steve Jobs… The 2007 desert phone call between Jobs and Schmidt marked the beginning of the end. It was, we’re told, an incredible moment, as much for Schmidt’s professed surprise as for the look on his face as Jobs berated him.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. – Google CEO Eric Schmidt, December 2009
Ahhh, the typical love story of a closet elite socialist.
:~) Sorry, had to go there for the joke guys, or it wouldn’t have been funny.
Well, an interesting read, but when you’re a mole, you don’t need friends, just dark damp places to enjoy.
I thought moles like the dirt…….hmmm
LMAO this story is incredible. i almost feel sorry for the old sap schmidt. steve tore him a new one
what is this crap. fan fiction?
schmidt going to burning man? I think not.
I didn’t know Google bought Android before I read this article. I actually thought they wrote it themselves. Man, Google really is turning into Microsoft…
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I didn’t know Google bought Android before I read this article. I actually thought they wrote it themselves. Man, Google really is turning into Microsoft…
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Well, did you know that Apple bought “multi-touch” from Fingerworks?
Uhm, go to the links, Boner has got pics of her and Eric at BM, so it’s legit.
Okay, that was one story I HAD to “click on the “Full article here” link. I wasn’t disappointed, that was some story.
Considering what he did to his wife, Steve Job, and that he was excluded from Brin’s wedding, says volumes about this guy’s morals and why he doesn’t seem to have any true friends. He just doesn’t seem to have a clue.
BTW – Speaking AS a photographer, the photographer who took that photo of Kate Bohner should be taken out and shot!
In other news, chairs in Ballmer’s corner office at Microsoft started magically rearranging themselves back under the conference table where they belong.
At least until April 3.
How envious Steve Jobs must be of Google, attaining such enormous wealth and status in such a relatively short period of time. Google has always been a growing success story, while Jobs went through decades of tumultuous angst at Apple where he was forced out, only to return as a savior.
On top of the hypocrisy of Apple claiming multi-touch (when it was really developed in Bell Labs in the 80’s with …you guessed it Microsoft Partnering) Jobs has the nerve to call out Larry and Sergey for continuing to innovate and expand into other domains. Who is Apple to tell Google not to get into phones?
The fact that Apple, after a decade of development and speculation is releasing the biggest disappointment of a product since the Apple TV spells the writing on the wall: they’ve lost their ability to innovate and to create products that will change the computing world.
Then again, a jumbo iPod Touch that can’t even fully surf the web (or you know, access 85% of online video content) is truly a magical device that will revolutionize the way we don’t actually view the web.
Google is not only growing exponentially and last time I checked, their stock value was more then double that of Apple’s. If they split their stock and watched it continue to grow, they would easily surpass Apple’s market capitalization which is considerably inflated over perceived impact over a widely overhyped iPad device that will not be able to sustain its sales after the hoopla has diminished.
It’s got to feel lonely for Steve knowing Larry and Sergey (at almost half his age) are not only on his company’s heels, but are positioned to be the future of not only internet search, but almost every element of the internet world (from online libraries to internet access. I don’t see Jobs providing half a million people with 100 MB/s fiberoptic internet access for free with lots more to come.
It’s BINGing to look a lot like Christmas.
With all the people this guy’s been screwing, seems the ‘little head’ has been doing some overtime thinking!
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“PlayNice”, ‘Smack’, two things that probably must filter down one’s mind from earlier childhood experiences when the parent must of yelled “PLAY NICE”, and then ‘SMACKED’ the back of the head, surmising from the dribble of the 12:53 am post?
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@PlayNice: Good try, but you’ve got a long way to go to become the Google version of ZuneTang…
Let’s see now, Schmidt is angry with Bohner for using her proximity to him to create her own work. Got his lawyers to shut down her blog about him. Yet he’s perplexed at Jobs’ anger with him?
I just love it when the anti-Apple idiots show up on here. They start slamming Apple that iPad that you hate so much is going to add another billion dollars of revenue this year. It doesn’t sound like much of a disappointment.
If you judge him as a shareholder, Eric Schmidt has been successful at all his jobs, presiding or leading over growth periods at Sun, Novell, and Google. Of course that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a nice man or something. But look at Sun and Novell now. The same will be of Google when Eric leaves. Larry and Sergey will never find a second act by themselves.
Eric Schmidt will help destroy Google like he did Novell and Sun.
His lack of integrity affects the whole company.
There may be some nice people at Google but he s*cks.
Now he has the worst of enemies … Steve Jobs and legions of loyal Mac users.
wow. i wonder how much of it is true. a very humanizing story for google.
Apple might have bought the original Multi-touch tech, but they must have done a lot with it in-house, even if it is original Multi-Touch people doing it, now as part of Apple.
Everyone has “Multi-Touch” (MS, Android, Palm, etc.), so why isn’t it going so well for them? Because they are not Apple, that’s why. At its core, “Multi-Touch” simply means that the device input screen recognizes more than one touch simultaneously (two, three, four, five fingers).
Obviously, Apple has done something with that: all this predictive stuff that helps the OS guess what you intended when there are lots of closely spaced, smaller, clickable elements; the momentum on scrolling when you flick a menu; even in hardware, the input detection is apparently more responsive and more accurate.
Apple’s implementation is superior than any anyone else’s, and most of this is due to Apple’s software. Get any schmuck off the street, drag him into a phone store and ask him to tell you.
@PlayNice:
You really should stop taking whatever you’re on. It’s rotting your brain.
MDN turned into gossip site.. news at 11.
Thoughts…
Schmidt is (just) a professional manager at Google, he is not its heart and soul, and he created nothing. He can be fired and replaced anytime.
Which makes him the antithesis of SJ.
Must say that this kind of journalism is IMO inappropriate.
Didn’t get past the part in the link when I found that the ‘mistress’ was an actual person.
See, my wife refers to my mistress as “Macine”. Scares the hell out of our friends who don’t realize immediately that she calls my MacBook Pro such.
Macine goes everywhere I go. And I mean everywhere. It is the only thing that my spouse has guaranteed I will walk away with if we ever split.