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They won't be a market leader in everything. What do they lead aside from search, ads, and mobile OS? The really funny bit is that near the end of Steve Jobs's

They won't be a market leader in everything. What do they lead aside from search, ads, and mobile OS? The really funny bit is that near the end of Steve Jobs's life (per the biography), Larry Page asked him for advice and of course he said "focus on doing a few things really well, cut out everything else." Seems Larry decided he knew better.

inglor 12y ago
> What do they lead aside from search, ads, and mobile OS? Browser, email, self-driving cars. Lots of other stuff too...
- joshuapants 12y ago
  > Browser Leading in memory usage perhaps
  - neumino 12y ago
    Leading in security.
  - yellowapple 12y ago
    Nah, Internet Explorer takes the crown there.
  - malchow 12y ago
    Slow clap
- icebraining 12y ago
  Leading in self-driving cars is debatable. They surely have the most visibility, but some car manufacturers and academic institutions like VisLab also have some impressive prototypes, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNcyuApIlFw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNcyuApIlFw (the autonomous car is the one in front)
MrBuddyCasino 12y ago
That advice led to the closing down of many Google services. Apple doesn't just produce a single device, either.
- rev_bird 12y ago
  But they make a line of laptops, a line of mobile devices, and some software. There's no iSpaceship or Apple Submarine(TM) yet -- if you told me Google had a sub bouncing around San Francisco Bay, I wouldn't even question it.
  - icebraining 12y ago
    Do barges count? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_barges http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_barges
    - presty 12y ago
      the barges are no longer in the bay area not a sub, but there was/is? this http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/01/07/google-launches-private-sf-bay-ferry-service-to-shuttle-workers/ http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/01/07/google-launches-...
cylinder 12y ago
Larry (and Sergey I believe) is an INTP, the business reflects that personality type.
seri 12y ago
> Seems Larry decided he knew better. Apparently he did. In the same biography, Isaacson wrote that "asking for advice to run a company" was just a clever way for Larry to visit Jobs in peace, playing to his ego, so to speak, as Jobs still held a grudge against Android. Google is a very different company from Apple anyway. At Apple, innovation runs top-down, from the likes of Jobs and Ive to Foxconn workers. At Google, innovation runs bottom-up.

inglor 12y ago

> What do they lead aside from search, ads, and mobile OS? Browser, email, self-driving cars. Lots of other stuff too...

joshuapants 12y ago
> Browser Leading in memory usage perhaps
- neumino 12y ago
  Leading in security.
- yellowapple 12y ago
  Nah, Internet Explorer takes the crown there.
- malchow 12y ago
  Slow clap
icebraining 12y ago
Leading in self-driving cars is debatable. They surely have the most visibility, but some car manufacturers and academic institutions like VisLab also have some impressive prototypes, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNcyuApIlFw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNcyuApIlFw (the autonomous car is the one in front)

MrBuddyCasino 12y ago

That advice led to the closing down of many Google services. Apple doesn't just produce a single device, either.

rev_bird 12y ago
But they make a line of laptops, a line of mobile devices, and some software. There's no iSpaceship or Apple Submarine(TM) yet -- if you told me Google had a sub bouncing around San Francisco Bay, I wouldn't even question it.
- icebraining 12y ago
  Do barges count? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_barges http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_barges
  - presty 12y ago
    the barges are no longer in the bay area not a sub, but there was/is? this http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/01/07/google-launches-private-sf-bay-ferry-service-to-shuttle-workers/ http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/01/07/google-launches-...

cylinder 12y ago

Larry (and Sergey I believe) is an INTP, the business reflects that personality type.

seri 12y ago

> Seems Larry decided he knew better. Apparently he did. In the same biography, Isaacson wrote that "asking for advice to run a company" was just a clever way for Larry to visit Jobs in peace, playing to his ego, so to speak, as Jobs still held a grudge against Android. Google is a very different company from Apple anyway. At Apple, innovation runs top-down, from the likes of Jobs and Ive to Foxconn workers. At Google, innovation runs bottom-up.