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To: Cogito who wrote (181300)	2/4/2012 8:58:23 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 543310

Jobs was a very smart man with occasional display of stupidity such as the hiring of the "sugared water salesman" etc. He is someone who we would love to hate but also he is someone that we hate to love. He is an enigma.

To: Cogito who wrote (181300)	2/5/2012 12:13:42 AM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 543310

It may be that Jobs felt betrayed, but Jobs was a master showman, and a great businessman of course, but, also a prick in many ways. Of course Eric Schmidt has his problems too. But Apple has been obsessively secretive in the modern era; there's this story that an Apple engineer got fired for showing Steve Wozniak(!) an iPad at 12:01am on announcement day, the poor bloke thought it was ok, but the official embargo ended at 9am or something. I doubt that outside directors got any particularly detailed information about the iphone. Anyway, Apple is supposed to have started iphone development in 2005; Andy Rubin started Android Inc. in 2003, and Android Inc. was bought by Google in 2005. So Google's interest in smartphones was well and publicly known when iphone development began. There is, of course, this standard photo and link that's supposed to show what Android looked like before the iPhone, random.andrewwarner.com . But osnews.com deconstructs that one. For amusement, you can watch youtube.com! , which predates the clunky Android prototype photo in the first link, just to see how geeky Sergei Brin and Andy Rubin are on video. Nobody will accuse them of being master showmen.