tushar's ramblings

Meet Yoda's cousin, Folda! I want one!

I'd say Microsoft and Google have a lot in common. Microsoft never had the humanities and the liberal arts in their DNA - it was pure technology company. And they just didn't get it. Even when they saw the Mac, they couldn't even copy it well. How dumb do you have to be to not see it once you see it, you know? But, Google's the same way - they just don't get it.

Jobs' advice to Larry Page on becoming the CEO of Google again:

Focus. Don't be like Microsoft doing products all over the map. Figure out what you do best and keep it focused. Secondly, don't try to be too nice as a CEO. You want a team only of A-players, and it really means that at times, you're going to have to blow people off.

On Facebook:

You know we talk about social networks in the plural but I don't see anybody other than Facebook out there. It's just Facebook - they're dominating this. I admire Mark Zuckerberg. I only know him a little bit, but I admire him for not selling out. For wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.

Bill Gates to Jobs on the great difference they had:

You know, you proved that your model (everything should be connected, end-to-end, integrated tightly) works. [Later on: What I didn't tell Steve was that it only works when you have a Steve Jobs]

Steve Jobs in return:

Well, you know, your model (of licensing it out) - that worked as well; I guess we were both OK [Later on: Yeah, it works, but only if you don't mind building crappy products]

Steve Jobs passing this week brings back memories of this famous pic (22,000 hits in 2 hours!) from Alexa Andrzejewski of Foodspotting (an awesome visual guide to good food + places to eat) when the founder of Apple was denied a table at Flour + Water (they have infamous wait times, like 3 hours?!)

Here's the back story in Alexa's own words (republished from TechCrunch):

Kim (@taro) is an awesome Swedish programmer living in Japan. He took a month off from work here at Smart.fm to do a cross-country road trip, with the idea of hitting Apple land as the Mecca of the voyage. He’d just spent the previous day in Cupertino, just to see “The Apple Temple.”

Kim is the the biggest Steve Jobs/Apple fanboy in the universe, and his trip ended with him seeing Steve Jobs and getting his picture with him plastered all over the place.

Kim’s second love to Apple is food, so I’d been planning to take him to Flour + Water for months. I had no idea that Steve Jobs would be waiting in line right behind us! What are the chances that, as our other flabbergasted friend Simon put it, “the great god in his infinite kindness and wisdom would grace @kimtaro with his presence at Flour + Water.”

Google + Dogfish Head collaborated to create a beer w/ ingredient ideas from Google offices all around the world! Although much of this is a marketing video, the ingenuity that went into this idea and this video showing the process of bringing the beer to life is awesome! =)