According to a hearsay report on Wired,, Jobs thinks Google’s ‘Don’t be evil’ mantra is ‘Bu****it’. According to rumours from those who attended the ‘Town hall’ meeting, Jobs ripped Google and Adobe.
First, he discussed Google’s growing antipathy towards the iPhone and plans to enter the mobile market full bore, starting with the Nexus. According to the account:
We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. Someone else asks something on a different topic, but there’s no getting Jobs off this rant. I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing, he says. This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.”
Then Jobs moved on to Adobe:
They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.
According to Guardian.co.uk, Schmidt isn’t above a little finger pointing himself – at his Davos interview the Google CEO reportedly had a few things to say himself:
His opinion of the iPad? He never commented on other companies. Though he couldn’t quite resist a lateral jab: “You might want to tell me the difference between a large phone and a tablet.” Beam.
Someone asked about competition from Apple and Facebook. Answer: he doesn’t think about them. He only thinks about Google. “Though I noticed you didn’t ask about Microsoft, by the way.”
Can the big boys play nice? Or is Google out for world domination of every pie they have a finger in?