A few words of faint praise for Google CEO Larry Page
Submitted by brian s hall on 13 January, 2012 - 10:05
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He has shown that he has learned the primary lessons of the two most important, powerful and influential tech leaders of his generation:
- From Microsoft's Bill Gates, Page has learned that Google cannot win unless it crushes its enemies. There can be no co-existence, nowhere on the web. Not in advertising, not in search, not in social media; nowhere.
- From Apple's Steve Jobs, Page has learned to do what he thinks is right, always, and absolutely not give a fuck what anyone says or thinks, good or bad, inside or outside the company.
No one is better qualified to run Google at this point in history.
Yes, Google is duplicitous. Yes, Google is anti-open, anti-web, anti-standards. Everything is done, not for the benefit of their customers, their users, their partners or the glorious world wide web, but for Google.
No one at Google -- no one -- can be trusted. About anything. Everything is doublespeak, which, yes, is ironic given their alleged mission to provide "relevant answers" to all our questions.
Even if it means killing net neutrality. Even if it means forcing businesses and people into what are effectively walled gardens. Even if it wastes billions of shareholder money to purchase a non-profitable maker of Android phones. Even when Google takes the hard work and the prized data of othes for its own benefit, while decrying the harm of "patents".
Under Page, Google is becoming both the best and the worst of Microsoft and Apple. And to Page's credit, Google is changing and morphing almost as fast as the web itself.