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> “We don’t want to be left with a complicated array of good-but-not-great services.” Sounds like Steve got his point across.

• kylemathews 15y ago
  As much as we all like Steve, I kinda doubt he was the only one with that insight.
  • ericd 15y ago
    Most people would weight his advice more heavily than equivalent advice from someone else, though.
  • staunch 15y ago
    From the biography: Page came to Jobs for advice on how to be a good chief executive officer, and while Jobs’ immediate reaction was to say “f-you” to Page, he remembered how HP co-founder Bill Hewlett advised him in his younger days. “Figure out what Google wants to be when it grows up. It’s now all over the map,” reads the biography’s account of Jobs’ interaction with Page. Later Jobs came to Page with a sharp advising tone, warning Google was making products “that are adequate but not great. They’re turning you into Microsoft.”