Google’s Page: Apple’s Android Pique ‘For Show’ – Businessweek:
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.
(Via www.businessweek.com)
You lost me there, Larry. See, it was one thing to say that you thought Steve was using a “ramped up” or “fake” anger over Android to rally his troops. At that point, I just think you’re naïve and a poor judge of character. But then when you say you personally think you’re better than Steve because you “shoot higher” and ignore your competitors, now you sound like the pompous ass I always took you for. And a hypocrite, too.
Man, it’s pretty hard to deny that the people at the top of Google’s food chain are elitist snobs. And terrible at PR. Someone should lock these Ivy League nerds in a lab where they belong and hire some spokespeople who don’t come off as creepy or arrogant 100% of the time they are being interviewed.
