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CNBC: Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple's board
CNBC has reported this morning that Google CEO Eric Schmidt, right, has resigned from Apple's board of directors after three years. This comes a week after Apple pulled GV Mobile and Voice Central from the App Store and rejected Google's own Google Voice app, along with the uproar and FCC letters that followed.Do you think Schmidt stepping down had anything to do with the events of last week? Or, like our own Sang Tang suggested three weeks ago, was this a predictable consequence of Google's move into the OS space with Chrome and continuing competition between iPhone and Android? Let us know in the comments!
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Don said 9:23AM on 8-03-2009
I think it had more to do with the scrutiny by the SEC over the potential antitrust problems. I have wondered for a month or so when this would happen.
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Don said 9:33AM on 8-03-2009
Actually I should have said FTC (Federal Trade Commission) instead of SEC.
Michael Belong said 9:33AM on 8-03-2009
Haha! That guys face is hilarious! He almost looks related to James Quall!!
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John.B said 9:40AM on 8-03-2009
'bout time.
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Kai Cherry said 10:12AM on 8-03-2009
Well with Apple actively kneecapping the newer, more innovative Google Apps on the iPhone, *somebody* in Mountain View had to have said *something* to someone about this crap.
Wonder how solid that youTube on iPhone dealio is...
-K
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Jason White said 12:09PM on 8-07-2009
From what I know the YouTube app on the iphone and ipod touch are apple written and maintained, just supplied by google services. But google would never in a million years take down access to the mobile version of YouTube.
Levi Figueira said 9:49AM on 8-03-2009
I can definitely relate this with the GoogleVoice(Gate) more than ChromeOS or any other excu.... err... justification!
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Andrew Thompson said 9:52AM on 8-03-2009
Uh...no, because we were talking about him likely resigning after the announcement of Chrome OS. This was definitely in the works.
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billy said 9:59AM on 8-03-2009
He looks like a PC to me...
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kelly said 10:04AM on 8-03-2009
No, no...no!
Round spectacles and tweed are Mac old-school, n00b.
Martin said 10:10AM on 8-03-2009
I'd wager this was in the works long before now. I bet the Google Voice thing helped it along though.
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Cal said 10:10AM on 8-03-2009
The FCC fiasco of last week may certainly have had something to do with his resignation. Or perhaps Apple got a mite too phased over Chrome's encroaching on Safari's market... either way, this last fortnight has not exactly been Apple's PR magnum opus. Just look at this: http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=26781
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Lauren.Hirsch said 10:40AM on 8-03-2009
No, not Apple's best week, but that story seems pretty overblown... We just covered it: http://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/03/apple-most-assuredly-not-slapping-family-with-gagging-order-ov/
Cal said 2:15PM on 8-03-2009
So noted – and as you said quite rightly at the end of that article, Apple could perhaps have been a little softer with their initial reaction to the family's request for a refund. It does look like every party involved – the family concerned and the media as much as Apple – has in some way overreacted.
On my part I should have expected a degree of sensationalism in how all this was reported before I linked to the Macworld article, which seems no more objective than original the Times report. Thanks for clearing up some of the things the other outlets overlooked.
Derek said 10:45AM on 8-03-2009
Something like this doesn't happen overnight - it's been in the works longer than the past week, you can bet on that. Therefore, I'll hazard a guess and say it's mostly due to the Chrome OS†
†WHY the world needs another operating system, and WHY web developers have to be tortured with another ugly, utterly needless browser is beyond me. Google enters markets now based solely on dominating it - much the same way Microsoft has done in times past.
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Drew said 10:56AM on 8-03-2009
I was just reading about Google in Wired magazine. What with the FCC keeping their eye on Google, this makes sense.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-08/mf_googlopoly
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luxuriouspunk said 11:44AM on 8-03-2009
Its...
(Chorus)
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it is
Something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough you'll
Always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Um diddle diddle diddle,
Um diddle ay! (etc.)
Because I was afraid to speak when
I was just a lad
Me father gave me nose a tweak
And told me I was bad
But then one day I learned a word
That saved me achin' nose
The biggest word you ever heard
And this is how it goes: Oh!
(Chorus)
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Urbz said 12:38PM on 8-03-2009
Thanks for that. Now I have that God-awful song stuck in my head!
oliver hart said 12:59PM on 8-03-2009
Why'd this story just disappear from ebgadgets front page? Poof it went
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Chris Knight said 1:15PM on 8-03-2009
Inevitabel - surprised it took so long
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