Google CEO Joins Apple's Board 104
Phooey42 writes "AppleInsider is reporting that Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, has been approved to join Apple's board of directors, bringing the board's total head-count up to eight. From the article, 'Schmidt also sits on Google's board of directors and Princeton University's board of trustees. He joins other Apple board members that include: former Vice President of the United States, Al Gore Jr.; President and CEO of Harwinton Capital, Jerry York; Chairman and CEO of Genentech, Arthur Levinson; Chairman and CEO J. Crew, Millard Drexler; Chairman and former CEO of Intuit, Bill Campbell, former CFO of Apple, Fred Anderson; and Apple CEO, Steve Jobs.'"
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Re:Hunh. And this matters why? (Score:5, Funny)
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One thing is certain: Schmidt, acting as CEO of Google, cannot do anything which benefits Apple to the detriment of Google. Nor can he do anything as a board member of Apple that benefits Google at Apple's expense. He may have to recuse himself from certain decisions at Apple; for example if Google decides to launch a music service, he exposes himself legally if he
Clearly, Schmidt was hired because his experience Internet technologies brings a certain
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well Al Gore invented the Internet, so I don't know what they need this guy for.
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Yeah, and Jews poison wells and use the blood of Christian infants in their religious observances.
Some lies, like the blood libel or the one about Al Gore supposedly claiming he "invented" the Internet, never seem to lose their ability to charm people of a certain mentality.
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Re:Oh hell no. (Score:5, Funny)
Good for Google, good for Apple (Score:5, Interesting)
I like GigaOM's [gigaom.com] take:
I also hope this translates into more Mac-friendliness [businessweek.com] from Google: "it did take Google a little while to let Safari users log into Gmail, for instance, and it did take Google Earth a little while to come out for the Mac".
Re:Good for Google, good for Apple (Score:5, Informative)
Yeah, because there was -no- javascript debugger for Safari until very recently. Don't blame Google, blame Apple.
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I had to put a 'no safari' stamp on one of my web software solutions because I was unable to debug safari. Sometimes things wouldn't work and no error would be thrown. Finally, there's some description of the problem.
Nothing beats firefox though--most of the time you can click on a link in the debugger and it'll show you the problem in source.
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On the bright side, several months ago I heard Google was looking for Cocoa developers. And they recently hired Doug Bowman, the stopdesign guy, which can only improve the company's heretofore crippled sense of aesthetics. Anyone got news on more recent developments?
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Dumb. Think about what you're saying for a second. By that logic, Apple hasn't released quicktime or itunes for windows.
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Today they added another member of the board (Score:4, Funny)
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Goggle-ization of Apple... (Score:4, Funny)
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Steve Ballmer... (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
...with all of the chairs being tossed around by Steve Ballmer (according to Slashdot), you'd think that Microsoft ran out of chairs by now.
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Your sig (there is): (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/Sc reenshots%20Funstuff/apple_weed.jpg [digibarn.com]
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
Nah. (Score:2)
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I swear that tossing chair jokes ARE NOT FUNNY ANYMORE .
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What does it mean? (Score:2)
Good news I guess, but what does it really mean? I wish the article would go into further details and speculated on the implications of this..
Well if anyone who knows what they are talking about wants to explain what it means for Google, for Apple, for the market/industy and also if someone can explain what Al Gore is in that thing for and what he does, well feel free to explain..
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Re:It means the Mac is becoming The Man. Cue PC us (Score:1)
Re:It means the Mac is becoming The Man. Cue PC us (Score:2)
Awesome! An off-topic Mac fanboy troll.
Keep it real, cuz I can tell you're not a poseur, yo!
lol.
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PP may not have said it quite right... (Score:4, Insightful)
I once worked for an online retailer in their IT dept., and can tell you the board was full of executives from all over the retail industry. Lots of back room dealing, scratching each others backs. When one company cuts a deal for another company in the same business, it's usually not with good intentions.
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Re:What's up with CEO's serving on boards? (Score:4, Insightful)
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This is a contradiction. If the board of directors of a company was comprised entirely of persons from within the same company, that would be an even greater concentration of power. There is basically no point in having a board that is responsible for overseeing itself. If I remember correctly, Sarbanes-Oxley (the Act designed to prevent another Enron or WorldCom) re
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Don't be silly. It's our government that does that, not being on more than one board.
If you want the burgeoning aristocracy to stop forming, elect some officials to the federal government that actually car
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By as for near/de facto monopolies, it is often quite simple.
Microsoft -> Linux/OS X
Cable company -> Satellite/IPTV
Telephone -> Cable, Cell Phone, Fiber Optic
etc.
There's really no business yo
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>Thank goodness that legislation takes more than one pig-ignorant prat's decree.
I assume you live on the moon or some equally remote location, if you look around here in the US or anyplace else I can think of there is NO evidence at all to support your assertion.
-michael
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The Coming of The Anti-Microsoft? (Score:1)
Al Gore (Score:1, Interesting)
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Since quite a while. He actually was one of the people demonstrating the then new video-chat capability of iChat AV together with Steve Jobs.
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Recycling is important, Apple is flush with cash and rides on the image of a modern, innovative, user-friendly company. It should be recycling more, but doesn't. In particular, currently its recycling program is limited to the continental [apple.com]
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Through taxes, I pay for Hazardous Waste Disposal pickups that happen several times a year. They accept computers and will take care of the "recycling" part.
Why should I have to pay TWICE for this service (once in taxes, and once in the price of a new PC)?
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1) Strawman. Please debate points in the report, not attack the authors.
2) Greenpeace didn't criticise Apple any more than they criticised any other low scoring company.
3) If Greenpeace's methodology was flawed, it was flawed across all companies. Apple scored very low on the same criteria other tech companies performed well on.
I agree with the GP. Gore should put his money where hi
Al Gore... (Score:1, Offtopic)
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I mean, if a person owns an iPod and then uses it at work, is that product placement, or endorsement, or is it, you know, using the tool to get the job done?
Al Gore uses his PowerBook and Keynote to do his presentations.
No surprise that Dvorak thinks this is possible (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Women? (Score:5, Insightful)
Are you saying the shareholders should try and vote a woman onto the board just because there aren't any women in there at the moment? That's real discrimination (positive or negative, it's all bad).
If there was a 50:50 ratio of men to women, then what? Should there be representatives of all religions, skin colours, programming language preferences, etc?
Nevermind if they can meet corporate objectives, are their genetalia representative of the population?!
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Kenyans are long distance runners...
(Granted for
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> any women in there at the moment? That's real discrimination (positive or negative, it's all bad).
You would be correct in an idealized world with an equal playing field. But the fact is that it is called the old "boys" network for a reason.
jfs
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If you look around, there are actually quite a few female board members. Anyway, the way to combat discrimination isn't more discrimination.
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Yes, because the "old boys" were ambitious workaholics who proved themselves, and the women...weren't. The "glass ceiling", much like the "wage gap" and "1 in 4 women will be raped" is a feminist urban legend with no basis in reality. If women want to be VPs and CEOs, they need to bust their butts and prove themselves. Take Anne Mulcahy, CEO of Xerox - did not take
No minorities (Score:1, Flamebait)
Not saying that there should be, just using google for images on the names resulted in none being obvious.
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