2 posts and columns on development tools

If Google Is the Inverse of Apple, Then is Eric Schmidt the Inverse of Steve Jobs?

in Mobile on September 29, 2010 at 3:10 am PT

For those among us who don’t yet understand Google’s mobile strategy, CEO Eric Schmidt has a helpful postulate: Google is the inverse of Apple. And since, as Schmidt argued at TechCrunch Disrupt yesterday, “Apple’s core strategy is closed-ness,” it follows that Google’s is open.
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Time to Poach a Few More Googlers, Eh, Mark?

in News on October 6, 2008 at 2:11 pm PT

Facebook manager Justin Rosenstein once described the social network as “the Google of yesterday, the Microsoft of long ago.” Today, Rosenstein perhaps views it as the Facebook of So Totally Last Week, because he’s leaving the company, along with departing Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.