[Cheyana]

Yup. From Financial Review:

"Before Apple’s Steve Jobs died in 2011, he told Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page that his company was trying to do too much. As Page later told the Financial Times, he replied, “If we just do the same things we did before and don’t do something new, it seems like a crime to me." Yet Page also acknowledged that Jobs was right in one sense: he could manage only so many things before too many would get lost in the shuffle."

http://www.afr.com/technology/how-steve-jobs-last-advice-to-...

[hueving]

>Before Apple’s Steve Jobs died in 2011

This is such a strange statement to me. Is there really a chance the reader will get confused and think that Steve spoke after he died?

[rybosome]

I think the value in such a comment is placing it within a timeline of the person's life. It wouldn't make sense to relate a story from 1982 and mention it relative to Jobs' death, but discussing an event that occurred months prior seems appropriate. Imagine it in the same context as "prior to his second tenure with Apple".

[cwp]

No. That's why mentioning his death is significant. It wasn't just sometime during his life, but at the very end, days before he died.

[Inconel]

I'm somewhat surprised to learn that Jobs and Page were on speaking terms, particularly towards the end of Jobs' life, given the animosity, at least publicly displayed, between Apple and Google.

[mdonahoe]

My impression was that Jobs was most upset with Eric Schmidt, not Larry.