Google CEO Joins Apple's Board

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday August 29, 2006 @04:02PM from the inquiring-minds-wanna-know dept.

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:Good for Google, good for Apple by bunions · 2006-08-29 17:15 · Score: 4, Informative

> it did take Google a little while to let Safari users log into Gmail, for instance

Yeah, because there was -no- javascript debugger for Safari until very recently. Don't blame Google, blame Apple.

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Re:Al Gore by bursch-X · 2006-08-29 19:44 · Score: 2, Informative

Al Gore is on the board at Apple?

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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