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A must read, with this I can say Google is a place with lot’s of good people, but Eric Schmidt and Vic Gundotra are just making Google become the Microsoft of the past. This article just makes you realize how Steve Jobs is the best at all this kind of stuff, just look at what he said back in 2004 (interview with Steven Levy):
If that’s so, then why is the Mac market share, even after Apple’s recent revival, sputtering at a measly 5 percent? Jobs has a theory about that, too. Once a company devises a great product, he says, it has a monopoly in that realm, and concentrates less on innovation than protecting its turf. “The Mac user interface was a 10-year monopoly,” says Jobs. “Who ended up running the company? Sales guys. At the critical juncture in the late ’80s, when they should have gone for market share, they went for profits. They made obscene profits for several years. And their products became mediocre. And then their monopoly ended with Windows 95. They behaved like a monopoly, and it came back to bite them, which always happens.”
As you can see, today Apple is going for market share rather than profit by selling their products cheaper than ever and if rumors are true, start selling the iPhone in all the carriers they can. Google (Schmidt rather, Larry Page and Sergey Brin would’ve taken the company in another direction) on the other hand, now that it’s a monopoly, seems to be going for the profit with this kind of stuff.
This is evil in so many ways. Google is acting like if they were the internet itself. Schmidt went from Apple’s board of directors, to Android, to Open Handset Alliance, to this. They are supposed to be huge HTML5 supporters but yet they pushed Flash to Android. They are following carrier’s rules instead of changing them for better user experience like Apple has (if you read the Apple relationship with AT&T article you know what I mean). And the list might go on and on and on…
