“During his keynote speech on Tuesday, Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said, seemingly with all seriousness, that someday, ‘there will be Android in every pocket,'” John Brownlee writes for Cult of Mac.
“For someone who has been prowling around Mobile World Congress for the past four days, it’s a statement that’s hard to react to without spraying crumbs. Schmidt couldn’t sound any more delusional if he were sealed up in a hermetic chamber with a scale-model of the Spruce Goose,” Brownlee writes. “The iPhone dominates Mobile World Congress. Google can’t even get an Android in every pocket at its own trade show.”
MacDailyNews Take: Eric T. Mole reminds us of a couple of people:
• Microsoft CEO Ballmer: ‘We are in the Windows era; we were, we are, and we always will be’ – November 15, 2011
• Microsoft CEO Ballmer dismisses Apple’s iPhone as hype, says Windows Mobile has market momentum – February 28, 2009
• Bill Gates has lost his mind: calls Apple liars, copiers; slams Mac OS X security vs. Windows – February 2, 2007
• Ballmer: ‘Zune halo effect’ will help Windows Vista – December 6, 2006
• Bill Gates: Microsoft’s ‘responsible for the creation of the PC industry’ – February 18, 2005No wonder they kicked him upstairs. Next, they ought to take away his stage pass, at the very least.
Brownlee writes, “Eric Schmidt seems to think that Android’s on the ascendency, that it’s on its way to ruling the world. What a joke. Google can’t even set the mobile agenda or get people interested in Android at a tradeshow dominated by people who owe their livelihoods to it.”
Read more in the full article, “Forget Android, It’s Apple Who Really Sets Agenda At Mobile World Congress,” here.
MacDailyNews Take: The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules — but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them. — Aleister Crowley
Eric T. Mole got kicked off Apple’s Board long before he could copy down all of the rules.
See what Android looked like several months after Steve Jobs unveiled iPhone, but before Google could fully rev up their photocopiers and switch from trying to clone BlackBerry phones here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
What he meant to say…
My hand will be in every pocket!
Sorry Eric, but there will never be an Android in my pocket.
What Eric the Mole meant is that there will be a Google’s mole in every pocket.
He’s just being delusional. It’s no different than when he said earlier this year that GoogleTV would be offered by everyone by Summer. It’s just what he says.
Huh? I’d go back to a landline before I’d have an Android.
Eric’s subtext is that Android HAS TO BE in every pocket for Google to survive, long-term.
Does he mean like pocket lint? Or like a secret spying device?
Damn! That is going to be expensive…
I have 6 pockets in my coat, 5 in my pants and 1 in my shirt. 12 android devices… They’re cheap but 12?
An Android in every pocket? Only if they start producing Android brand tissues.
He should have said a Google in every pocket. He controls the advertising in most Android phones, iPhones and Blackberry phones.
Android? There is a Pocket for that!
This bozo is starting to remind me of John Sculley. The guy is consumed by some bizarre delusions of grandeur.
anybody notice that day by day Google honchos are sounding more and more like RIM execs? Constant stupid bombastic statements (previously was ‘everyone would be using a google tv’) seem to indicate desperation and frustration more than anything else…
since Android google share price has gone nowhere and now there’s 12.5 b cost (10 years Android earnings) to buying Moto (which is losing court cases left and right . ) Shareholders are frustrated and Google honchos know it…
Unoriginal losers copying the old Microsoft mission statement with their stolen product. F off, seriously old man. Take your money and retire.
there will be Android in every pocket…
There will be Androids in my pocket when I pick them up as discarded litter alongside the highway. 😉
‘There will be Android in every pocket’
Not in MY pocket, Eric!