The abrupt retirement/resignation/deck chair shifting of Google CEO Eric Schmidt couldn't have been timed better ? if you were Facebook. As dissected by the Gillmor Gang, the news of Larry Page's reascension to the throne seemed just one more shoe dropping in the wake of Steve Ballmer's axing of Bob Muglia, Steve Jobs' step back to focus on his health, and other reboots from companies including HP, SAP, and I forget. Actually, mentioning HP and SAP served to bore me into stopping the last sentence. The one connective tissue is the tectonic shift in technology caused by the iPad, or as @Scobleizer pointed out, the iPhone. Though @DannySUllivan and @KevinMarks insisted on extolling the virtues of the free and open Web, there's no doubt in my mind that Apple's (and particularly Steve Jobs') combination of design, control of a hungry niche marketplace, and political savvy adds up to a defining moment that rolls up media, technology, consumers, and the enterprise.
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