Google's 'Impatient' CEO Apparently Hates Gmail?

"He does not much like e-mail either - even his own Gmail - saying the tedious back-and-forth takes too long to solve problems." I'm sorry, what? I am willing to bet actual money right now that future generations will remember Gmail as one of the greatest contributions to the consumer Internet experience. To all appearances, Page is on a mission to navigate what he thinks is Google's midlife crisis, and that means trimming the fat. Hence the recent death of Google Buzz, for instance. And that makes sense. Google Buzz was like an inconvenient clone of Twitter, destined to fail because you couldn't just go to it without being logged into Google, and at that time it slowed all their other applications down. However the NYT indicates he's positioning himself as a kind of Android Steve Jobs, and that's worrisome.

Anyone who's had the dubious pleasure of working in a large corporate organization can attest that there is deep down a hierarchy of impatience. Director level bosses expects 1 paragraph or shorter email. Anything you send to a Vice President-level bigwig better say everything in the first sentence. And Chief Officer levelers? God forbid they in fact have to read their own email. Hell, Page fired his secretary because he hated being scheduled for meetings. Shooting the messenger isn't the same thing as demanding that iPods be more compact, you know? It's a mistake - one that currently affects America's insane economic debate - to think that the preferred lifestyle of a fabulously wealthy and busy businesspeople has any relevance to what the rest of us want. Steve Jobs until further notice understood that making things easy and convenient is as important as making them look good. This profile makes Page look come off like he just wants to be king of the world.

I'm sorry, what? I am willing to bet actual money right now that future generations will remember Gmail as one of the greatest contributions to the consumer Internet experience.Is this an article or a drunkenly written blog?

nah steve jobs is this generations tupac he'll keep releasing new material even afterwards he died. Knowing apple they're on the whole milking it.

I agree with Larry, during I love gmail for email, email itself is becoming a dinosaur. And I'm sure future generations will see it specifically like that. Even now email is a thing for people in their 30's and older, during younger generations will exclusively use communication systems like facebook for everything. Not saying facebook's a corporate solution however.

I'm sorry, however this article is just stupid. Let's step back just a second and try, just try a little tiny bit, to read between the lines and as a matter of fact comprehend what Page said instead of hearing what you want to hear/are too incompetent to understand.Lets assume for a moment that Page was being honest when he made that comment, that email is inefficient. Let's as well assume that Page, like most people in any sort of tech field, is not the best communicator. When all is said and done let's assume that, just at this stage, Page isn't a ego-maniacal man trying to take Jobs' place in the tech industry.With all those assumptions firmly in place, let's look at his comment, quoted from a third party: "He does not much like e-mail either - even his own Gmail - saying the tedious back-and-forth takes too long to solve problems." So at that time, Page believes that emailing is "tedious" and that it "takes too long to solve problems". Looking at those opinions, I don't see anything particularly wrong with either of them. Let's look at the alternatives to email, shall we? Phone Conversations: Real time phone conversations allow for very rapid transferal of ideas as the average speed that a human speaks is in broad outline 120 words a minute. Comprehension rates is roughly 600-800 words a minute. After all you run the risk of missing the other person when you callText Messages: Very short, often misspelled or a abbreviated text, creating an abundant amount of possibility for miscommunication. There is often as well a time delay between replies, at times a significant one. Video conferencing: Same as phone conversations, only with the added benefit of video to communicate ideas, allowing for diagrams, flow charts, and more. Broadly speaking this requires an extensive level of preparation earlier being really feasible.Face to face: Even better than phone and video conferencing because it allows for improvisation, non-verbal communication, and physical interaction. Requires proximity to the other personNow, of those options Email is closest to text messaging. If you send an email, you may not get a reply quickly enough for your needs. If you send an email you will ensure that a series of responses and replies will follow earlier a complex concept is conveyed fully. If something is miscommunicated, it may take several replies to find the flaw in understanding and rectify it.This process of extensive reply and response can take hours, especially if you aren't a fast typer. Some would define that as "tedious". This method of communication can become a problem when you are trying to brainstorm a difficult problem like, oh I don't know, perhaps optimizing Android for lower spec hardware. It can as well cause a problem when you attempt to do this with more than two people, as a person can reply to one person and the others will have no idea what they said, requiring those two people to explain it to the rest.This method of communicating would to sum up take significantly longer than a phone or video conference and much much longer than a face to face visit. It could be said that it "takes too long to solve problems" using this method.Page is likely thinking like an engineer or at the very least a businessman. He sees the fact that attempting to do one task using email vs one of the other methods is foolish.TLDR: The article is very, very stupid because the author Ross took thoroughly no time to try and understand the intent of the comment and simple went ahead and interpreted the comment how they wanted to, going into a longwinded rant about how Page was trying to be the new Steve Jobs.If this were an internet forum post, I'd probably call the author a troll for making such a stupid comment. Kind of pathetic actually...