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kainhighwind on Oct 30, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: The day Google founders asked Steve Jobs to be CEO

Wow, how flattering to Schmidt.

I'm not terribly fond of him, personally.

Not surprised that Jobs was unwilling to give up a hardware business. The profit margins might be worse but it's less volatile.

philwelch on Oct 30, 2010 | [–]

Not surprised that Jobs was unwilling to give up a hardware business.

I'm not surprised Jobs was unwilling to give up a business he built (twice!) for a business someone else built.

mrich on Oct 30, 2010 | [–]

apple has an unbelievably high profit margin which beats many software companies.

http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/Ratio...

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