Quote to Note: The Price of Success Is Death
July 3, 2010
Quote to note: A classic popped out of “Google chief: Nexus One Was ‘So Successful, We Killed It’. What a Load of Schmidt.” No, that is not the quote. The “load of Schmidt” is part of the source’s headline.
Here’s the quote:
It [the Google Nexus One phone] was so successful, we didn’t have to do a second one. We would view that as positive but people criticized us heavily for that. I called up the board and said: ‘Ok, it worked. Congratulations – we’re stopping’. We like that flexibility, we think that flexibility is characteristic of nimbleness at our scale.” His words are even further removed than an earlier explanation from Android project lead Andy Rubin, who said the company killed its Googlephone webstore because running the thing was just too complicated.
A keeper.
Stephen E Arnold, July 3, 2010
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