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In an interview at CES this week, Palm chief executive and former iPod chief Jon Rubinstein said his company doesn’t pay much attention to Apple, and noted he has never even used an iPhone.
Rubinstein sat down with BoomTown’s Kara Swisher to talk about his company’s new lineup of webOS-based handsets due out this year. In the course of the conversation, Apple and its market-leading iPhone unsurprisingly came up.
Rubinstein said that although it sounds “really strange,” his company doesn’t pay much attention to Apple, and he doesn’t worry about the iPhone. To that, Swisher responded: “I don’t believe you.” Rubinstein then claimed he has never touched an iPhone
“I don’t have an iPhone,” he said. “I’ve never even used one.”
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It’s just crazy when CEOs try to do this. They tell obvious lies that actually make them look like really bad CEOs.
So Jon Rubinstein thinks that the sign of a good CEO is to never look at the competition’s highly successful products? Huh? Kara Swisher should have said, “Okay, if you say so, but I don’t see how that would make you better at running your company.”
Apple was clearly the “winner” when Jon Rubinstein left the company. It’s both funny and a little sad when CEOs get in such a bubble that they start talking complete nonsense. It reminds me of Rudy Giuliani’s recent nonsensical rant against Obama.