Although Google and Apple could be considered competitors in many ways, he had Steve Jobs in the past, a relatively close relationship with Google co-founders – Larry Pageand Sergey Brin. Proof of this friendship is also in the pictures that appeared online this week. The rare photos show Jobs, Page and then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the Googleplex. The picture was taken when the first iPhoneWhen the company Apple presented at the beginning of 2007, Eric Schmidt was also on stage, who spoke about Google Maps and YouTube.
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He published the mentioned pictures on his twitter account Jason Shellen. He worked at Google in the early 680s as an employee for the Blogger platform, then became a project manager for Google Reader. The pictures were taken unnoticed using a Palm Treo 2007 mobile phone. They were taken in August XNUMX, and in the photos we can see Steve Jobs in his characteristic black turtleneck, together with Larry Pagem sitting in one of the cafes at Google's headquarters - it looks like they're both enjoying a salad. The second of the photos released shows Jobs, Page and Schmidt in a live call – Jobs gestures, Larry Page sits with his back to the photographer.
Steve Jobs could have become the CEO of Google in the past – of course, purely theoretically. When its management asked after 2000 Page with Brin about introducing a more experienced director, the only one who came to mind at that moment was Steve Jobs. His position at the head of Google was of course unthinkable, so nakonec the choice fell on Eric Schmidt. Page However, he and Brin gratefully used Jobs' consulting services. The friendly relationship between the management of the two giants cooled significantly after the launch of the Android operating system and the G1 smartphone.
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