Why is Steve Jobs taller than Eric Schmidt in this picture? 
I’ve met both guys, and I’m sure Eric is taller than Steve. But maybe I’m wrong.
I’m having trouble (must be my night for that) finding believable height information on either of them. (WikiAnswers says Steve is 6’2″, which seems high to me. Still can’t find anything on Eric.)
The reason I bring this up is that photographs and illustrations tell their own stories.
Ever notice how photos in sports stories always show the winner making a great move or looking happy and the loser making a lame move or looking all dejected? The story is often more complicated than that, but this is how default journalistic story-telling goes. You match the photo to the story. It’s an illustration. A picture to match the thousand words.
This picture, on the cover of this week’s issue of BusinessWeek, shows several things at once: how Apple currently has more stature than Google in the phone business. How these two former colleagues (Eric was for years on Apple’s board) are now competitors. Maybe there’s some back to back stuff.
Anyway, it’s a story. Vendor sports, of course.
Just saying. Maybe there’s some fodder here for Jay & Dave at NYU.
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