Jobs and Schmidt. Photo: Apple Inc.
Much has changed since Eric Schmidt joined Apple's (AAPL) board of directors in August 2006, almost three years ago.
Schmidt, the former chief technology officer of Sun Microsystems (JAVA) and now the CEO of Google (GOOG), brought to Apple's board deep expertise in Web search and advertising, a shared distrust of Microsoft (MSFT) and almost no conflicts of interest.
But in the past three years the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 3, 2009 2:06 PM ET
Source: Net Applications
The so-called market share reports issued every month by Net Applications have long been controversial -- mostly because they didn't actually measure market share (which business people typically express as the number of widgets they sell in a given period divided by the total number of widgets sold).
What Net Applications did instead was sample data from browsers visiting their clients' websites and report what percentage came from MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 2, 2009 8:07 AM ET
Google Voice. Art: Google Inc.
[NEWS FLASH: Google CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from Apple's board. See here.]
Sometimes you've just got to love the government.
Case in point: the inquiry that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission launched Friday into why exactly Apple (AAPL) decided to reject Google's (GOOG) powerful Google Voice call-management system for the iPhone, and what role AT&T (T) played in the decision.
Hundreds of reporters -- from the tiniest MORE
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