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We've had two separate discussions about this- one of which was an earlier TechCrunch article- appear on the front page today. TechCrunch is going to milk this cow until it's dead, spreading their running commentary and analysis over as many articles as possible. It doesn't mean we need to keep promoting it over and over again.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=739070

Agreed. This post doesn't bring anything more than the PR itself: there was more and more conflicts of interest. I think we all understand this.

Besides, it was odd for some time now that Schmidt was still on the board. I don't think anybody is surprised or shocked. The only thing is that it fuels the Google Voice story a bit more.

Summary: Google and Apple have competing visions and the Google voice app store fiasco brought things to a head. Supposition of course.

"Recruited from Novell"

Shouldn't that be 'rescued'?

Oh gawd, reading thru TC comments confirms my impression that they jumped the shark.

Why Schmidt Had To Go