Steve Jobs Was Right::: Google IS Turning Into Microsoft

Last spring as Larry Page was preparing to retake the helm at Google, he asked Steve Jobs for advice.

Jobs told him to focus on fewer things and do them really well.

Jobs later recounted the conversation to his biographer Walter Isaacson.

Figure out what Google wants to be when it grows up. It's now all over the map. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest because they're dragging you down. They're turning you into Microsoft.


Page has taken some steps in the right direction, killing a bunch of also-ran products and experimental projects. He's also managed to slow the brain drain.

Why I'm Dropping The iPhone And Switching To A BlackBerry

Dropping The iPhone
Before you grab your pitchforks and hot tar, I just want to make a quick point: for me, the iPhone is basically an iPod duct taped onto a phone.

Of the 28-some odd gigabytes of space available, 98 percent of that is devoted to music. The iPod app has seen more use than every other app on the phone combined.


A close second? Email. Third? Text messaging. Then Facebook and Twitter. A distant sixth-place contender is web browsing and navigation.
The BlackBerry does all of those other apps better than the iPhone simply because I can save seconds or fractions of a second. That's more important to me than a little animation that makes the whole process look slightly prettier at the cost of a fraction of a second.