“Eric Schmidt went public this week with his defense against Steve Jobs’ claim that Google stole the final idea for Android from Apple,” Rob Enderle writes for Forbes. “He argued that Android proceeded iOS and that Google is known as a great innovator.”
“It is an interesting argument, particularly the last part, which seems to fly in the face of the facts that after search, Google often has appeared to copy Apple, Microsoft and Facebook poorly as some sort of bad parody of Microsoft,” Enderle writes. “This Microsoft comparison, to be clear, was delivered in Steve Jobs’ final words to Google’s CEO and didn’t come from me.”
“Now calling Steve Jobs a liar after death seems pretty ballsy to me particularly given Schmidt didn’t seem to want to do this during Steve Jobs life,” Enderle writes. “Working from the Wikipedia Timelines (seems appropriate since this is about Google) for both products, Eric Schmidt’s tenure on Apple’s board, and Jobs comments let’s see of Jobs belief that Schmidt and Google stole from Apple holds together.”
Read more in the surprisingly lucid full article here.
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Eric Schmidt: ‘Google is a great innovator; Android effort started before the iPhone effort’ – November 8, 2011
Fsck yes!
Ya THINK?!
The pigs must have learned to fly today because MDN is recommending a piece by Enderle.
Forbes has been slumming it lately. Big Time!
Ah…. but what you don’t get is that the two things Enderle hates worse than Apple (because his beloved MS hates them) are Google and Linux (so dissing ‘roid is two birds with a single rock for him)
I doubt he has seen the light, but the rift between google and apple has certainly wrought strange bedfellows (like Enderle siding with apple) I think it comes down to the old addage “The enemy of my enemy is my friend, at least right now”
the enemy of my enemy…
Sh***y Schmidty has multiple personality disorder.
The responsible could be also Page and Brin.
Hell is frozen solid.
It’s like I don’t even know the Enderles.
Jeezus, Rob must be on his meds.
LMAO!
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
At best he is self delusional. As we saw from your take yesterday, the Android phone was a copy of the Blackberry until the iPhone came out. Eric just has his own “Reality Distortion Field” – it surrounds his brain, no one else’s.
In his case, a History Distortion Field.
The worst of the worst. Lowest life form on earth.
Isn’t that obvious?
Is there any counterpoint from other members of the Enderle Group?
Yup, his wife farted and said, I got yer Adroid right here.
What’s to decide? Shall we take a poll and decided if 2 2=4? What is there to decided? Of course he ripped-off Apple. Do we really think that Schmidt/Google just happened to be on such a parallel thinking/strategy plan as Apple that they would purely of their own accord come up with a phone so close to an iPhone in function? If you can believe that then I am sure you are open to 2 2=5.
“He argued that Android proceeded iOS and that Google is known as a great innovator.”
Nice writing… it’s not “proceeded”. It’s “preceded”
But what did Steve Jobs say about this sort of thing. Oh yeah, “Good artists borrow, great artists steal”
Wasn’t that his philosophy? Says so in his biography.
Then don’t say you had the idea first.
Google is not an artist but a group run by weasels.
He’s talking about art and Picasso. Design, look, beauty. Not IP concerning technology.
YES! Schmidt and Google stole it from Apple.
Enderle ? ? ? Come on MDN, anybody but him. His article reads like a grade four essay with run on sentences, poor sentence structure and a complete lack of needed commas.
The article is full of unsubstantiated conjecture and opinion. At least he could put in a few verifiable facts to support his likely tale of possible truth.
Enderle is still an idiot. I suspect this article was ghost written by someone else.
If Schmidt could sit on the Apple board and lie to Jobs and everyone
else about Google’s intentions, what could stop him from lying to Enderle and the rest of the world about what happened? The timeline and products speak for themselves. Not one thousand denials outweigh the knowing stare of Steve Jobs( and I do mean stare).
Put it this way, if the mole hadn’t been on apples board they would NEVER had gone into mobile phones.
Steve was a great visionary, but a lossy judge or people’s character.
He should have foreseen what Eric was upto.
They might have gotten into phones but it’s very clear that the Android look-and-feel UI was lifted from Apple. Prior to Apple, the Android UI was much different and even more crappy.
Yes, even more crappy than the Blackberry it was trying to copy prior to the iPhone.
Just a person with dignity who trusted that his innovating peers had some dignity and honor too…
What will be interesting to see unfold is how apple tears google to bits with Siri.
And as there is now no google spy’s on apples board google won’t stand a chance.
Also remember that google only went into mobile phones because they realIses that controlling search on mobile platforms is the future.
People search now more on mobile devices than on pcs these days.
I wish Apple could Eric for breaking some kind of fiduciary trust while on the board of directors and taking ideas back to Google.
Yes! Somebody finally said this!
When you are on the board of directors for a company aren’t you legally obligated to operate in the best interest of the shareholders.
And if so, why aren’t the shareholders rising up to collectively sue Eric Schmidt into the dust!
I think Schmidt fed what he saw at apple back to google. Actually a guy like Schmidt probably just fed them “ideas” without the engineers being fully aware it was coming from Apple. Im sure a few.of them had an “oh f*ck!” moment when the iphone launched.
Ill give Eric one thing, the man knows how to cover his tracks just enough because if he indeed jacked apple’s IP he sure hasn’t faced a day in court.
I knew a guy like Eric… rotten back stabbing piece of crap who somehow always comes out smelling like a rose…
When Steve died and Eric told Charlie Rose of his wonderful memories of Steve and how they were such buddies, that was the day I officially hated Eric Schmidt. I hate him more than I ever hated Bill Gates, because Bill would at least have the honour not to twist events around in his relationship with Steve to make it seem closer than it was. Especially on the day of his death.
God, I f*cking hate Eric Schmidt.
Is Schmidt guilty of stealing IP from Apple?
It would certainly appear so.
Did SJ plan it all along to create a dark force to spur Apple on after Microsoft?
Not so clear..
Enderlenutjob is still a nut job. Notice how he protects MS with that little sentence. He doesn’t want that check to stop coming from his Masters.
Rob Enderle is an idiot, even when he gets it right. And Eric Schmidt is a lying sack of sh*t. I realize that most people already know this. I just like saying it. 😀