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> Larry Page told Steve Jobs in 2010 that "There will always be places we compete, and places where we cooperate." > After another meeting between Apple and Go
by beckman466 5y ago
> Larry Page told Steve Jobs in 2010 that "There will always be places we compete, and places where we cooperate."
> After another meeting between Apple and Google senior executives, notes showed that the execs agreed: "Our vision is that we work as if we are one company."
> That is a damning little piece of evidence.
Looks like it’s exactly the meritocracies Google and Apple claim to be, nothing monopoly-like to be found here... /s
- draw_down 5y agoAnd as we all know, everything between Google and Apple has remained exactly as it was in 2010
- defaulty 5y agoIn business school lingo, this is called 'coopetition' which is just a portmanteau of the two positions: cooperation & competition.
- eloff 5y agoI can't tell if this is sarcasm or serious, so I looked it up. It's for real.
- rainbowzootsuit 5y agoI'm not sure that they invented the term but it was, and probably still is, prominent in the F.I.R.S.T. robotics competition. At least in that context, as a mentor, I thought it was a decent message for the students. Work together to get the robots as good as possible so that you had an enjoyable competition. https://www.firstinspires.org/ https://www.firstinspires.org/
- travoc 5y agoIn the DOJ’s world, it’s called collusion.
- throwawaylinux 5y agoI think what the government calls it depends greatly on "donations" and promises of do-nothing "consulting" positions with outlandish salaries.
- agumonkey 5y agofirst time I read this but I'm not even surprised the term exists .. it's probably a natural and very old phenomenon right ?
- beambot 5y agoThey also cooperated on illegal recruiting practices to stifle tech wages: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust...