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Eric Schmidt fails both the boards he sits on

Published on: July 10, 2009 at 4:00 AM ET
Duncan Riley
Written By Duncan Riley
News Writer

The above picture is pretty self explanatory. It shows Google CEO and Apple board member Eric Schmidt capturing those taking photos of him…with a Blackberry.

There’s some very reasonable arguments around why Schmidt has a conflict on interest sitting on both the Google and Apple boards, ramped up even more now by Google’s entry into the operating system game.

But using a Blackberry when the companies who pay you offer the iPhone and the gPhone respectively? That’s beyond the acceptable pale, and sends all the wrong messages to the share holders in both companies. Schmidt should have always quit at least one position (and the obvious one was Apple), but after this you’ve got to wonder whether his judgement is suitable for either Apple or Google.

(via The Next Web )

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