George Savage

“Fake Steve Jobs” manages to be simultaneously hilarious and insightful about the prospects for Google successfully taking on Microsoft Windows with its much ballyhooed Chrome Browser-cum-OS.

A couple of samples:

Trying to make an OS out of Chrome is like saying you’re going to turn a Pontiac Aztek into a stretch limousine. I suppose it could be done, but why?

Then, finally, you set up another appointment and this time you do meet with them [Apple engineers] — but before they can even speak you just look at whatever it is they’ve made and you say, I’m sorry, that’s a piece of shit, and you walk out. Trust me, engineers love this. They’re all masochists. That’s why they became engineers in the first place.

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