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I'm sure the people who actually work on webOS do and have looked at the iPhone. It's nice to have a CEO like Jobs with clear vision for a product but I don't
by sjs 17y ago
I'm sure the people who actually work on webOS do and have looked at the iPhone. It's nice to have a CEO like Jobs with clear vision for a product but I don't think that's the case for the Pre.
- fredoliveira 17y agoWell, the thing is Rubinstein is considered the father of the iPod. Effectively this should make him one of the people you'd go to for a revolutionary product, particularly one that would compete with the iPhone. Him saying he never used an iPhone at all just shows he's either lying (which may be the case), or that he's naive in thinking he can create a breakthrough product set to dethrone the iPhone without at least taking a peak at what Apple has done in order to do better himself.
- lurch_mojoff 17y agoWhich is surprising given the fact that Rubinstein is not the MBA, parachuted in from some other corporation, type of CEO. He is a technical person, probably more of a technical manager than, say, a hands-on circuit designer, but nonetheless he is a technical person. He was one at Apple, and he started as the topmost one on the WebOS/Pre project at Palm. If I were to expect a CEO to be closely managing the development of their company's product, that certainly would be Jon Rubinstein.