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>If Eric Schmidt is being lined up to become Apple's next CEO Why on earth do people keep expecting this? Apple's success comes from their fantastic design se
by loewenskind 16y ago
>If Eric Schmidt is being lined up to become Apple's next CEO
Why on earth do people keep expecting this? Apple's success comes from their fantastic design sense and their leading support. Schmidt gets a bad grade in both those areas. Apple has other people already in the company that could do a better job than Schmidt.
- dotBen 16y agoI agree, which is why it would make more sense to leave the visionary stuff to folks like Jony Ive and have Eric Schmidt run the company. (Ive is hardly a CEO type) Schmidt's job at Google was to provide "adult supervision" to Larry and Sergey, and keep on top of the executive functions of a publicly listed company. There is no reason to assume he wouldn't do a good job at that with Apple, leaving folks like Jony to be visionaries.