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At the risk of fanboys downvoting this, I think world won’t be better place if Jobs went on to be CEO of Google. He would have locked everything down, imagine all of the massive open source just never coming out, Google Brain never existing, all the free products only available on Android and no where else.



NeXT and Apple open sourced more projects under Steve Jobs than they have since. A world where Jobs went for Google CEO is a world where Jobs has a different aesthetic worldview entirely, and you can’t know what would have happened.


Page did make sweeping design / product changes once he was handed the reigns; I suspect, acting on his conversations with Jobs? His "Chief of Product", Sundar Pichai, on hand to execute his vision across Search, Apps, and Ads (and later, on Android as well).




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