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Non-paywalled article: http://www.businessinsider.com/alphabet-david-drumond-barred...

From the Business Insider article:

> The situation is similar to when Google CEO Eric Schmidt left Apple's board after his company started working on Android, its own mobile operating system similar to Apple's iOS, except that Drummond hasn't given up his board seat.

It's only kind of similar. Schmidt left Apple's board while Drummond has been essentially forced out, and Google was working on a direct competitor to Apple's iOS, which would have been a pretty glaring conflict of interest. I guess Uber's self driving cars research would be a conflict of interest for Drummond too, but Drummond is just a SVP of corporate development, so he wouldn't really deal with any of the development of the self driving cars at Google.