A 2006 email thread surfaced by Internal Tech Emails shows Google senior VP Alan Eustace asking Steve Jobs for permission before hiring former Apple executive Jean-Marie Hullot in Paris. Jobs asked what Hullot would build, warning Google would have a problem if it involved cell phone handsets. Weeks later he objected outright, and Google scrapped the Paris engineering centre entirely. Tim Sweeney called it blatantly illegal.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 2006 email thread surfaced by Internal Tech Emails shows Google senior VP Alan Eustace asking Steve Jobs for permission before hiring former Apple executive Jean-Marie Hullot in Paris. Jobs asked what Hullot would build, warning Google would have a problem if it involved cell phone handsets. Weeks later he objected outright, and Google scrapped… Read More »In 2006, Google VP emailed Steve Jobs seeking permission to hire former Apple exec<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":133008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}