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> Basically, [Steve] said "if you hire a single one of these people that means war". what realistically could steve jobs have done here? its not like he had an
by swyx 4y ago
> Basically, [Steve] said "if you hire a single one of these people that means war".
what realistically could steve jobs have done here? its not like he had any legal power to prevent his guys going over, and if he wanted to poach from google just to spite google it’d just be a stupidly expensive affair
- jjulius 4y ago>... it’d just be a stupidly expensive affair And worth it in war, depending on the objective.
- woodruffw 4y ago“Poaching out of spite” is exactly what he’s threatening. And note: “stupidly expensive” for you and me is “stupidly cheap” for companies like Apple and Google.
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- brightball 4y agoWould have been funny if he gave the names of employees he wanted to depart instead.
- i2shar 4y agoIf you scroll down on the original post, there's another techemail from Palm CEO Ed Colligan to Steve Jobs [0] in which he says: "Threatening Palm with a patent lawsuit in response to a decision by one employee to leave Apple is just out of line." So, don't know what Jobs could have done with Google specifically, but safe to assume that it would be something else equally out of line. [0]: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1422603572814962692 https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1422603572814962692
- shadowgovt 4y agoAt the time, Google was the default search engine in Safari, was it not?
- majani 4y agoIt's trivial for a big corporation to kick off a trivial lawsuit to bury you in legal fees