Eric Schmidt: Apple saw everyday problems a decade before anybody else.

Soon to be former Google CEO Eric Schmidt had yet another kind thing to say about its rival. If you missed it earlier he mentioned how Steve Jobs was the most successful CEO anywhere and now he mentions how Apple saw everyday problems a decade before anyone else. Schmidt said it best:

“When I grew up it was basically about enterprises – IT. Today computer science is really about consumers and information. The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day. There was only one company that saw that a decade before anybody else and that company is Apple. If you look even through the Nineties — Sun, Microsoft, Novell, Cisco — they were fundamentally infrastructure companies based around corporations. That is where the money was. There was almost no consumer use with the exception of Apple in people’s daily lives. The big shift was over 10 – 15 years and it came with the development of the web.”