#2 Letting Eric Schmidt see what was in Apple

Steve Jobs, about seven years ago, invited Eric Schmidt to sit on his board. At the time Apple was on to a secrete project, building iPhone for 2 years. Three months after Schmidt joined the Apple board, Google put its weight behind the Android and was mimicking BlackBerries. But Schmidt who was part of meetings discussing the launch of the iPhone and how significant the post-PC era was going to be got the whiff of how big the Apple handset is going to be. He went back to the Google, and asked Android folks to reorient around an iPhone vision of the world. Steve Jobs thought Google was a friend and invited them into the Apple. Instead, they became the biggest competitor. (Courtesy: Forbes)

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