“Google has pulled off a coup by hiring an Apple senior director of product integrity for a secret project, VentureBeat has learned,” Dean Takahashi reports for VentureBeat.
“The recruiting feat is historic since Google has never hired such a senior person away from Apple,” Takahashi reports. “Simon Prakash worked at Apple for more than eight years and was most recently the senior director of product integrity at Apple, according to his LinkedIn page. That means he was responsible for product quality across all of Apple’s products, from iPhones to Macs.”
Takahashi reports, “Now he’ll be working for Google on a secret project, presumably run by Google co-founder Sergey Brin”
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MacDailyNews Take: Senior director of perpetual beta integrity.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Well ‘our lady of perpetual Beta’ sure could use the help.
If you can’t beat Apple, copy them.
If you can’t beat them, hire them.
What was Google’s motto, “Do no evil”? If that’s the case, then I wouldn’t want to see a Google that really did decide to do evil!
It’s funny how Americans have a different understanding of English words than the rest of the world, now I understand why there’s special dictionaries for American English. Oh well, all’s fair in love and war, I guess.
“What was Google’s motto, “Do no evil”? If that’s the case, then I wouldn’t want to see a Google that really did decide to do evil!”
It was never “Do no evil” it was always Do no(t be caught doing) evil. They are even getting bad at that.
He’ll be put in as director of quality control for driverless cars. Then a year later he’ll be in charge of the iPhone 5 Xerox department.
Do no Evil… wink wink
What career move! Go from #1 admired company to a thieving, scheistering hated company that’s on the way down.
But for better or worse, Google is also highly admired.
For the time being.
there’s alot of presuming and assuming in this top secret report….
Top secret project is a revolutionary googlePad that looks like an iPad but is totally different due to a big clock on the home page. Not to mention it comes with a league of malware protection add-ons you can add to the CPU and battery sucking software built in. Apple is secret about its stuff so google want to copy that too.
Hint: it probably runs Chrome OS 😉
Do know evil…
Google is admired primarily for internet search. Why that achievement has gained such approbation is beyond me. I do not consider it to be an amazing achievement, and other companies provide the same function quite well. Google was savvy in embedding its search function into a number of products, and then took advantage of internet inertia to maintain a client base for a commodity service. Google also did a good job with maps. Everything else from Google has been fairly gimmicky and so-so, IMO.
Peoplr don’t hate google for search.
They hate it because it’s selling the information to advertisers.
I personally hate google because they have no integrity, ideas or any original thinking.
They are trying to copy apple at every turn.
I bet Steve jobs is turning in his grave about the decsison he decided the employ Eric the mole.
That one decision gave a glimpse of the holy grail at apple and Eric then told google everything that he was exposed to at apple.
Steve jobs was a genius but boy was he a bad judge of character. Trust is always earned and never given away freely.
If Steve was here he would be fuming – and I don’t blame him at all.
Stealing ideas, IP and key staff is inexcusable.
Two words: Jon Rubinstein.
OK three words with the first one being silent.
Tim Cook and Mr. Prakash had a meeting in which Tim convinced him to stay on board with Apple but take the position with Google…….Yes folks, a double agent!
Dang google. Jobs would have never let this happen.
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