Jobs Raked Over Coals By Lilly
06.19.07 - 01:34pm
When Apple CEO Steve Jobs stood up to deliver his keynote last week he introduced to the world the new web browser Safari. Upon its introduction he showed a pie chart depicting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Safari with no other browsers depicted and stated “this is what we’d love.”
This graph and statement has caused much ire in John Lilly, Mozilla’s CEO, who defined the statement to mean that Apple wanted to create a “duopoly” of browsers and take over Firefox’s market share and any others.
Lilly wrote in a his blog stating that the graph, “betrays the way that Steve, and by extension Apple, so often looks at the world.”
“But make no mistake: this wasn’t a careless presentation, or an accidental omission of all the other browsers out there, or even a crummy marketing trick. Lots of words describe Steve and his Stevenotes, but ‘careless’ and ‘accidental’ do not. This is, essentially, the way they’re thinking about the problem, and shows the users they want to pick up.”
