“Google chairman Eric Schmidt is sidestepping discussion of whether he might become the next Apple CEO,” Electronista reports.
“‘In the first place, it’s not appropriate. Steve [Jobs] is still the CEO and I hope he continues forever,’ Schmidt told CNBC in a Monday interview,” Electronista reports.
“In response to whether or not Apple has approached him to make an offer, however, Schmidt would neither confirm or deny the suggestion,” Electronista reports. “‘I’m not going to talk about private conversations with anybody,’ the chairman is quoted as saying.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Retch.
“‘In the first place, it’s not appropriate. Steve [Jobs] is still the CEO and I hope he continues forever,’ Schmidt told CNBC in a Monday interview,” Electronista reports.”
Good. He didn’t say something stupid. Steve Jobs IS CEO. Period.
How pointless… Eric Schmidt will NEVER be Apple’s CEO. He may be Microsoft’s future CEO.
Most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard of in my life.
He wasn’t really dodging it he just couldn’t be heard over the LAUGHTER that erupted after it was even suggested.
schmidt? why don’t the idiots suggest Ballmer as well?
Google was larger than Apple in marketcap a few years ago, today Apple is 100 billion bucks bigger. (312b vs 192b)
think Apple stock fell badly when Steve took sick leave? wait for the real crash if they announce Schmidt…
If that ever came to pass it would be the absolute end of Apple. I can think of few individuals whose product strategy differs more from Steve Jobs than Eric Schmidt. Under his watch , Apple would cease deploying the vertical integration model that has worked so well for it, and everything about the tightly woven well-oiled ecosystem that we we all love will start to crumble.
May it never come to pass.
Let me just assume he becomes the next CEO or, in some position ends up at Apple, It’ll be amazing to have watched him go from respected friend, to ally/mole/idiot and then back to friend/visionary/well respected. Will MDN still write his name as Eric T Mole if he’s an executive at Apple? Doubt it.
If Schmidt become CEO of Apple, I’ll go back to the typewriter.
All my faith in Apple’s board would dissolve should the mole ever become Apple’s CEO. Unfortunately, most of the current board know the mole from his time on the board.
Also, one has to wonder what the google wunderkids think about the mole keeping this talk of another CEO role alive. Looks more and more like the mole is being evicted from his current digs and is using this time to find a new place to call CEO.
May as well get a former pepsi executive…
Never!!
Steve wil be back!!
When hell freezes over …
This would be the end of Apple.
This is one crazy man dream and my worst nightmare. I still remember the early 90’s.
This is such a Apple gossip nonsense..
Quickest way I know to get AAPL back under $100 per share would be to hire this idiot in ANY capacity. Investors would bail immediately.
I’ll drop Apple and just go banana!!!
Please, if you’re going to replace Ballmer, hire Schmidt. Please!
I’m amazed and appalled that he didn’t deny the rumor. Does he seriously think he can make people believe it was discussed with him?
“‘I’m not going to talk about private conversations with anybody,’ the chairman (Schmidt) is quoted as saying.”
Unless it’s from the Apple boardroom and being passed along to the Google Android team.
I know one thing… if Creepy Schmidt ever becomes an executive at Apple, I’m selling all my shares and finding something else to invest in.
I’ll give Schmidt one path and one path only to being the eventual CEO of Apple: Android was a plan hatched by Steve Jobs with Google’s cooperation to rip the oxygen from any other would-be OS (such as Windows Mobile, Symbian, Blackberry, etc.)
And that, my friends, is about as likely as Schmidt becoming Apple’s next CEO (I’m a fan of circular logic).
Only someone well versed in the culture of Apple should ever take over the reigns from Steve Jobs. In my opinion that should be the de facto CEO we see now – Tim Cook.
No fscking way in Hell that douchebag will ever oversee Apple… there is an executive team at Apple that can take of everything, tyvm.
MaWo: ‘ill’. As in, “The thought of ‘Eric T. Backstabber’ as Apple’s CEO makes me…”
this is nothing… or at least it better be.
since this is nothing, this is the perfect place to wonder:
is the ZAGG MATE any good? has anyone bought one yet?
doesn’t seem to be sanctioned by the mothership..