Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs

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Post by cocacola1 » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:49 AM UTC

Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs
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Re: Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs

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Post by rootusrootus » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:00 AM UTC

Ha, we're totally not building a browser, nope, not us!

I suppose perhaps that was true at that moment. When did they start making Chrome?

Re: Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs

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Post by mcenedella » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:00 AM UTC

“I got an irate call from Steve Jobs” - honestly, I might consider putting that on my tombstone. What an honor.

Re: Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs

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Post by kevingadd » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:00 AM UTC

Fascinating to see the amount of coordination at play to suppress wages/etc even while they're trying to poach and compete with each other.

Re: Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs

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Post by bluehorseray » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:02 AM UTC

It would be pretty cool to have Steve Jobs and Sergey Brin fighting over you as an employee, wonder who it was.

Re: Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs

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Post by friedman23 » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:03 AM UTC

rootusrootus wrote: post #2

Ha, we're totally not building a browser, nope, not us! I suppose perhaps that was true at that moment. When did they start making Chrome?

> so please update me on what you know here and on what you think we should have as policy.

> on another note, it seems silly to have both firefox and safari. perhaps there is some unificaiton strategy that we can get these two to pursue. combined, they certainly have enough marketshare to drive webmasters.

Would be absolutely hilarious if these series of calls and emails led to the development of Chrome

Re: Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs

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Post by alpb » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:03 AM UTC

For those who don't know, this resulted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L....

Re: Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs

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Post by wahnfrieden » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:03 AM UTC

bluehorseray wrote: post #5

It would be pretty cool to have Steve Jobs and Sergey Brin fighting over you as an employee, wonder who it was.

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Re: Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs

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Post by dataflow » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:04 AM UTC

rootusrootus wrote: post #2

Ha, we're totally not building a browser, nope, not us! I suppose perhaps that was true at that moment. When did they start making Chrome?

Wikipedia [1] says "development of the browser began in 2006", though it says they had thought about it as early as 2004.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#History

Re: Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs

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Post by smegsicle » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:05 AM UTC

mcenedella wrote: post #3

“I got an irate call from Steve Jobs” - honestly, I might consider putting that on my tombstone. What an honor.

rather get one from donald knuth