Larry Page, in Unusual Q & A, Grades Industry Harshly
In a rare question-and-answer session following the keynote presentation at Google's I/O conference, CEO Larry Page graded major technology companies harshly while remaining optimistic about the power of technology to repair social problems.
In a rare question-and-answer session following the keynote presentation at Google’s I/O conference, CEO Larry Page graded major technology companies harshly while remaining optimistic about the power of technology to repair social problems.
Page was critical of Microsoft, Oracle, Facebook and implicitly Apple for not participating in open standards, valuing profits over innovation.
“I’m sad that the Web isn’t advancing as fast as it should be. We’ve certainly had trouble with Microfost, and I’d like to see more open standards, more people getting behind things that just work, but I wouldn’t grad the industry well in terms of where we’ve gotten to,” said CEO Larry Page in a rare question-and-answer session with the audience at the company’s I/O developers conference in San Francisco.
“You need interoperability,” Page said of Facebook Home, “not just people milking off of one company and not doing the same thing in return.
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