I like the tidbid about Jobs knowing how to focus the iPhone by tapping a part o...

TamDenholm · on Oct 13, 2011

Well, go and compare the amount of products google has to the amount of products apple has. Eric Schmidt isnt going to use them all, but i bet he knows how to use Google Search.

Tyrannosaurs · on Oct 13, 2011

Also worth remembering that Apple products were largely what they were because Steve had Apple build things Steve wanted to use.

Google isn't built in that image and even if it were, the image it would be built in is Larry and Sergey's, not Eric's.

Samuel_Michon · on Oct 13, 2011

I'd be more interested to hear whether Eric Schmidt knows how to use AdWords. After all, that's Google's main source of income.

jonknee · on Oct 13, 2011

Steve Jobs wasn't a conventional CEO and was widely known to micromanage the design of products. It's likely that he personally signed off on exactly how the tap to focus feature worked from a design standpoint.

Schmidt's no slouch though, he's just on the engineering side (he co-write lex!) instead of design side. I bet Schmidt has a great understanding of how Google's search software works.