Google CEO Larry Page:
I think that served their interests. For a lot of companies, it’s useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe that it’s better to shoot higher. You don’t want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what’s possible and how to make the world better.
So, Larry looks to make the world a better place and Steve didn’t? Oh please.
Exactly, man. He’s full of sht. He can say whatever he wants now that Jobs can’t reply. Google doesn’t make the world better, they sell information to advertisers.
To be fair, Google does have a lot of good web services for the end-user.
What a douche.
It sounds like he is implying that Google innovates while Apple copies. Google search is still the best, but I hardly see a lot of innovation coming from Google.
The problem is, you’re the product. They give away gmail, because they get info on you, to sell. The same with youtube, +, and all their other properties you need to login to. That’s not even getting into the search part of it.
I do love Google Chrome.
If Steve Jobs were alive, he’d kick your… oh wait. Wrong article.
By good you mean mediocre? But free.
He’s lying and he knows it.
I don’t consider any other free (heck, even paid) email service as being on the same level as Gmail in terms of usability. I know Google subsidizes all these free services purely from ads/selling its users and you may be completely against that which is fine but that doesn’t change the fact that for many end-users, Google’s various web services are free, widely accessible and generally better than those of its competitors. I’m talking Chrome, Maps, Talk, Reader, and so forth.
What a tool. Still attempting to minimize the mendacity of completely redesigning Android once Eric Schmidt had gotten a look at the first iOS prototypes.