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Google CEO Joins Apple's Board

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Good for Google, good for Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The summary may as well have linked to the actual press release.

    I like GigaOM's take:
    Even though Google is being overtly aggressive about online video market, it is trying to leverage its advertising network more than download sales. Is it too hard to imagine - watch the video on Google Video, and download it on iTunes store? Both parties win? iTunes being included as part of Google software pack, or part of Google Toolbar? Google driving music-related searchers to iTunes store?

    Google must be paying handsomely for those searches emanating out of Safari browser (about 3% of the total market) and a soft alliance could help balance the books. In other words, Google gets paid for referring customers to the iTunes music/video store.

    I also hope this translates into more Mac-friendliness 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".
    1. Re:Good for Google, good for Apple by bunions · · 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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  2. Re:Oh hell no. by SeekerDarksteel · · Score: 4, Funny

    This post gets my vote for the "Most fitting poster name" of the year award.

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  3. Steve Ballmer... by 5plicer · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... just threw a chair.

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  4. Hmmm.... by linguae · · Score: 4, 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.

    1. Re:Hmmm.... by wbren · · Score: 4, Funny
      ...you'd think that Microsoft ran out of chairs by now.
      They only have one chair left, and I don't think that even Ballmer has the balls to throw him across a room.
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  5. Re:What's up with CEO's serving on boards? by LifeNLiberty · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is capitalism a new concept for you or something? If that offends, you, go start a business that adopts different practices, until then, this is how they want to run it. Not saying I like it but they were the ones succesful enough to end up in these positions to begin with, they can let in whomever they want.

  6. Your sig (there is): by IANAAC · · Score: 4, Funny
    If only there were a girl that was like this OS [apple.com] in my life..

    http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/Sc reenshots%20Funstuff/apple_weed.jpg

  7. Re:Hunh. And this matters why? by PHPfanboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, "Get Microsoft" is their shared similar values

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  8. Re:Women? by kestasjk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A board is about meeting the corporations objectives, and members are voted in based on their ability to help meet those objectives. If the shareholders vote someone into the board based on ability alone, that's no more discrimination than an olympic coach choosing 100m runners based on ability and ending up with Kenyans.

    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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