New Book Reveals Apple's Steve Jobs Was First Choice for Google CEO

Posted by Roblimo on Saturday April 9, 2011 @09:19AM from the do-no-evil-while-wearing-a-black-turtleneck dept.

A Reader notes, Steven Levy's latest book, In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives, lifts the lid on the secretive world of Google, revealing how the founders fell out with Apple's Steve Jobs and what happened in the search engine's exit from China. Levy claims that when Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were on the hunt for a chief executive they wanted Steve Jobs to take the job. Obviously, he didn't, and later the two companies became fierce rivals rather than allies.

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Re:Surprised Jobs Didn't Steal Something... by hedwards · 2011-04-09 11:33 · Score: 1, Funny

Whatever it is that you're smoking, I want some.
Google phones would probably be cooler ... by perpenso · 2011-04-09 12:59 · Score: 2, Funny

It makes you wonder how things would have turned out if Jobs had accepted the offer.
Well, google phones probably would have been cooler and much more popular. ;-)
Re:How different things could have been by Anonymous Coward · 2011-04-09 14:39 · Score: 2, Funny

Not if it was anything like itunes