Tony Fadell, known as iPod parent, left the Apple company a long time ago and was employed by Google after his Nest company was acquired by those from Mountain View, he had the opportunity to work with both Google co-founders, Larry Page si Sergey Brin.
The experience of working at Google was completely different from that of working at Apple, Fadell providing some extremely interesting details regarding the differences between Steve Jobs si Larry Page, both managing to be the basis of the creation of extraordinary companies.
Fadell claims that within Apple he learned from Steve Jobs a lot in terms of product marketing and the importance of the experience that users have when using the American company's products, this being known to the former president of Apple.
In contrast, Larry Page and his team were trying to create products that no one would have thought of, looking beyond the conventional to initiate development processes of products that were far ahead of the imagination of any person in Silicon Valley.
Within Apple, the thinking was completely opposite, those there having in their DNA the motivation to develop products that no one had thought of, but only to improve the existing ones.
Although in its last years Apple did not think like Google, Apple's beginnings were based on the development of products that no one would have thought of, but the mentality has changed a lot since then.
For me, it's really contrasting this with Steve (Jobs), because I learned a lot from Steve about experience and marketing and product design. With Larry in particular it was about looking out well beyond the horizon and trying to pull out that horizon you can't see. They can jump up really high and see it well before anyone else does and try to pull it in. That is unheard of in Cupertino (Apple's Silicon Valley headquarters) from my experience there.
To me that was an eye-opener. Every time I open up another (Google research) lab or somebody introduced me to something, I'm like, “What? You're doing that? Oh, my God.” And it just — you know, it's candy for my brain.
