From the RUFKM (see tags) file:
Playing catch-up with the competition can only ever help you make incremental gains. It will never help you create something new. – Eric Schmidt, August 26, 2014
Wait, what?
Repeat that, please.
Playing catch-up with the competition can only ever help you make incremental gains. It will never help you create something new. – Eric Schmidt, August 26, 2014
MacDailyNews Take: Wow. Just fscking wow.
Here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
Here’s what cellphones looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
[Attribution: Re/code. Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
He’s referring to google, right?
I think he’s referring to everyone, including Google, Samsung AND most recently Apple.. He probably feels at this point Google Android has the lead in several areas in the OS and Apple has decided to follow in areas it finds itself weak in comparison. It may also be a call to Googles’ own departments to keep thinking of new ideas, especially in Project X.
Google Android has the lead in MALWARE by several miles. Now we’re learning that Google Chrome add-ons are also a source of malware. Apple finds itself insightful and brilliant by comparison.
Q: Who’d have ever expected that?
A: Most of us here, of course.
Get lost Eric.
Bet the apple guys ant wait to read his book and rip out googles secrets just like google has done with all the ‘secrets of apple’ type books out there.
When it comes down to it success in business is one thing – “do something different from the competition and always innovate”
Its common tactics mixed with a strong element of delusion for the copiers to try to claim the high ground. Microsoft, Samsung now Google just another in the line of copycats in message as well as technology.
I agree with the ‘do something different…’ concept as one of many approaches to success.
But I can’t imagine Apple foresees anything useful in Schmidt’s book. It might be useful to read it to learn about mistakes he experienced in order to avoid them. But the only ‘Google secrets’ that might be useful to Apple would be regarding how to create a search engine. Apple’s website search continues to be abysmal. Sadly, Schmidt probably doesn’t himself comprehend the Google search engine. He invented NOTHING at Google that I know of. He was simply brought into the company for his leadership skills, NOT any entrepreneurial skills or invention skills.
The Android before and after iPhone shot is the most eloquent agreement to Schmidt’s statement.
The man has great aim when shooting himself in the foot.
He’s saying “that’s why I did what I did when I was at Apple’s BOD”.
As we have seen from Russia and others like Schmidt, it doesn’t mater what you say or what is true. What matter is what people believe.
However if you want people to believe you and you want what you say to stand on its own, it should be true.
Every lie is an act of self-destruction.
It’s constantly amusing that people will lie in an effort to obtain a personal sense of security, when in fact they are undermining themselves. Choices, the great gift to mankind.
This must be what he’s learned first hand in his years at Google.
I think he is referring to the clown car.
This is why Apple has NOTHING to fear from the Android platform. Android only helps Apple, by creating more smartphone (and tablet) users at a faster rate than Apple can, by itself. And they will eventually buy an iPhone (or iPad), and become loyal Apple customers going forward.
Copying innovation is not innovation.
There will always be a market for cheap knockoff crap and victimized customers who turn to the rest of us for help. *groan*
Somebody save me! Can I hear an amen!
Amen!
a little extension:
creating something new doesn’t automatically mean success. see:
Amazon misFire phone
Samsung Gear
Google Glass, Q, ….
……..
……
Hmm. Ok,
Newton
Lisa
iMaps…
iMaps is doing extraordinarily well despite you (and others like you) saying that it is not. What was it now……60Million users vs 80million users for the Goo version. For a version 1 that is extraordinary in the face of an established competitor.
Kinda loosely speaking, Lisa became Macintosh, and Newton became iPad.
Ah, I guess everyone missed the point that I was replying to… “creating something new doesn’t automatically mean success”.. As applepostle points out, “loosely speaking”, it took work to improve prior ‘new’ efforts to have them become successful.
I happen to have loved my Mac, and my Newton. They were both great tools for me, and hooking up with Compuserve back then was a thrill as my friend and I as we learned learned coding. No one else had anything to compare these tools with, so they were great! While Google nowadays has had Maps longer, I have yet to see any advantage in my geographical area that Google provides, and Maps on my 5s has worked phenomenally, even through iterations of IOS and App betas. The symbiotic relationship of Apps and the IOS platform is a work of art in comparison to all other OS’es from all I have seen. Whether they are Apple Apps, or independent developer’s Apps, The flow and response on IOS has beaten all other OS’es I have used. While we can all look at others’ failures and be smug, we should all remember that we have all had failures. Sometimes a perceived failure is not a failure at all.
The people that moan about imaps are the people that never use it.
I use it everyday and it works perfectly well.
It’s a nice, clean and efficient map app that does exactly what apple promised.
Not true. Until about four months ago, the entire country of Serbia was one massive black hole in Apple Maps, while Google had mapped every street, alley, town, village, hamlet, every feature, even if very modestly significant, with hi-res sat imagery, and they had them for years. It wasn’t until Apple’s acquisition of some mapping company last winter that they were finally able to get street-level precision for this part of the world.
Since the introduction of Apple Maps, until about today, Apple has been rushing to catch up with Google’s version. The result is mixed; many areas (such as those where you seem to be traveling) seem to be fine, but there are many parts of the world (the US as well) where the differences are still quite apparent. The gap continues to close, but it is still there.
For those of you who travel through the areas where Apple has caught up, Apple’s interface and attention to detail provide superior results. But that is not consistent across the globe yet.
The Newton was pretty cool for its time, I still have it somewhere. The Lisa was quite a good system, more advanced than the Mac but unfortunately far too expensive, and whatever gave you the idea that iMaps is a static product?
Imaps is a a success.
No, it wasn’t when it came out. Apple even had to apologise for it.
True, but time moves on and products improve. iMaps is and always will be a work in progress. I prefer it over Google Maps which wasn’t the case when it came out two years ago.
Newton was ahed of its time but succeeded in creating the blueprint for what is now taken for granted.
Lisa was again a brilliant step some of which were superior to the Mac but again was trying to be too adventurous but in its way was able to make the Mac so successful from its mis-steps.
iMaps refer to Paul, truth is for such a newbie and despite being released to early is doing extremely well. In fact the problem with things like maps it pretty much has to be out there to improve there is only so much you can do in the lab.
Well Google did create a “new” system for global corporate surveillance and silencing dissenting voices by sock-puppetry and funding “non-profit” organizations…
A recent example:
“On Monday the 25th of August the Code Club board gave me an ultimatum, either I have to stop saying negative things about Code Club sponsors, or resign as a director. After careful consideration, I have handed in my resignation.
[…]
The board has given me detailed instructions in how I should talk about Code Club sponsors. For instance, if someone asks me about x’s involvement in corporate mass surveillance where x is a Code Club sponsor (eg Google), I should answer: “I do not want to get into the specifics of any particular corporation. Nonetheless, it’s worth restating that the Code Club board believe X are a tremendous partner. As a member of the board I am completely aligned with that view.”
On Monday the 25th of August the Code Club board gave me an ultimatum, either I have to stop saying negative things about Code Club sponsors, or resign as a director. After careful consideration, I have handed in my resignation.
I’ve had a great time working on Code Club, from inception and boozy planning with Clare to writing educational materials and seeing them used in the wild, most of all seeing what the kids make. I have really enjoyed user testing lessons with kids, and going around the world meeting like-minded people and enthusing about constructionism. I am lucky to have met so many people who love Seymour Papert as much as I do <3
The board has given me detailed instructions in how I should talk about Code Club sponsors. For instance, if someone asks me about x’s involvement in corporate mass surveillance where x is a Code Club sponsor (eg Google), I should answer: “I do not want to get into the specifics of any particular corporation. Nonetheless, it’s worth restating that the Code Club board believe X are a tremendous partner. As a member of the board I am completely aligned with that view.”
I’m not comfortable with lying and so it is in my best interest to resign.
I don’t believe the the world is black and white. People and corporations are able to do both good things and bad things. Even if Google was mostly good, I need to have the right to call them out when they do bad things. Doing some good things should not give you a free pass. We should not accept that privacy no longer exists, just because corporations doing mass surveillance also teach kids to code. I cannot stay silent about large corporations infringing on human rights, and I believe it is my moral obligation to speak out against it.
At first, I thought I could be pragmatic, that I could play along with things I don’t agree with with as long as it was for a greater goal. But there are some things I do not want to sacrifice. And in any case, I can continue to do all the educational work I want to do outside of Code Club. Like working on the new Digital Maker badge for the Scouts, writing educational materials and running free workshops.
I know Code Club’s over 2000 (and growing!) volunteers will continue to do awesome work, they’ll have my continued admiration, love and support.
Linda Sandvik
resignation.md
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I suspect Eric Schmidt – with his vast expertise as a mole – did mastermind much of that development.
They can’t dictate to you what you say about the code club.
This isn’t china this is the western world and we have freedom of speach.
Say what you want to however you want about the code club – that’s what I would do.
They can’t do fuck all about it.
If that is a social club, then there is likely no legal and binding contract that would govern these things. However, if he had to sign some sort of contract (that would imply accepting code of behaviour, etc), then he is legally prohibited from talking in such way about it, regardless of “freedom of speach” [sic] you are referring to. If he breeches the written (and signed) agreement, he is liable (i.e. can be sued).
He’s an empty suit schmuck
Hey Mr Schmidhouse, I like your style. Not many will admit to copying others to make minimal gains.
It’s nice to know that you realize that you will never create something new. That’s a good thing. Many people in your position would attack a rival, like Apple, but not you.
You know Steve Jobs kicked you in the nuts for copying the iPhone. You took it like a man and lived up to your bullshit.
I have an idea for you. You should go to China. Get the white box phone makers signed up. Nixon went to China and look where he ended up. Oh.
Good luck with your next project. Sooner or later one of these brain storms, like driverless cars, will start making money.
Good luck buddy.
“If I just say it enough, it will become true!”
–Eric Schmidt, Google
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
Joseph Goebbels
Well it sure made Bill Gates rich, Eric Schmidt as well.
I always thought there were extra letters in “schmidt.”
So his quote belongs in the schmidtter?
Careful how you say sh, it!
Nah, just one : ‘schidt’ is a German word, often spelt ‘scheisse’!
😉
‘Head’ ?
I love the smell of fear before an iPhone launch!
Yep, that’s why Apple jumped right to 64-bit on mobile and left Google to catch up, Eric.
Unfortunately, you people don’t seem to get why he’s saying this now. He’s trying to set a negative tone for the announcement of the next iPhone and possibly iWatch.
He’s trying to get people to believe, in a not so subtle fashion, that Google has already done everything that’s coming in Apple’s soon to be announced products.
While it is true that Android based phones and Google’s watch have a few features (e.g., physical size) that the current iPhones do not have and the soon to be announced iPhones and possibly iWatch will have (and thus Schmidt’s statement), it is grossly inaccurate to imply that Apple is just playing catch up. Picking up a few features that Android products have while introducing a large number of new features and functions is not playing catch up!
We *are* talking about someone who, *after* joining Google, went on the record, publicly stating that Google’s slogan, “Don’t be Evil”, is the dumbest corporate slogan he had ever heard. Schmidt has never retracted that statement.
Its a little more than that. A large part of IOS 8 is adding features that have been available for some time on Android and other platforms. Google Now has overtaken Siri and Apple maps is still a long way behind Google maps.
It has taken far too long for Apple to release a larger screened phone, it has fallen behind in screen quality, phone protection and battery life.
Once the iPhone was the clear, undisputed number 1 smartphone in the world. Now it has fallen behind and the iPhone 6 is attempting to catch-up.
RUFKM!!!’
Apple had to deal with the death of Steve jobs and it’s impact on the business, they have a new CEO who had to find his way and this has slowed apple down abit.
It’s a common case when a founder and CEO of a company dies the company has to ‘find itself’.
That ain’t playing catchup – that’s getting over the grief and renewing.
When Schmidt head dies it will kill google.
Apple survived and are about to prove how back on firm they are and their shit scaring the competition like samescum who just from rumours panicked and made a smart watch as they’re terrified with what apple might be doing.
In doing so they realised products no one needs or buys and in doing do did a lot of public testing for apple :))
Everyone copied iPhone.
That’s what happens when a company truly innovates.
Apple all so opened the flood gates with the success a of iPhone for almost any company to design and made their own phone.
Whether they sell or not isn’t important. Apple empowered companies to do their own phones.
And whichever way you look at it. Apple were first – and that my friends is why people will always end up with an iPhone.
tell the ugly pocked face goon to go jump into a vat full of sewage
Eric shouldn’t be so tough on himself. But at least he recognizes his weak spots.
Eric Schmuk is a lying ,delusional narcissistic sociopathic moron!
I think Eric is finally in the know that his SHIT stinks
I can’t believe the lies and bare ace cheek of that asshole!
I will read the book just to find out the weak areas in google.
And I will buy it via ITunes :))))
Projection Much? Guilty Conscience Much? lolz. Keep talking and exposing your real feelings on your subconscious thoughts about your copier copy unBeta tested wearz.