I'm in the midst of reading Steven Levy's book about Google, "In the Plex," and I was fascinated with the account of Steve Jobs hiding the iPad's development from Google CEO Eric Schmidt while Schmidt was sitting on the Apple board. We noted this striking example of corporate confidentiality last week.
Jobs was reportedly angry with Google for allegedly ripping off iPhone features like pinch to zoom that eventually wound up in the Android phone.
Eventually Schmidt stepped down from his position on the Apple board, and the rest is history. Or maybe not. Our former colleague Nilay Patel, ex of Engadget
