After the announcement of the iPad, Steve Jobs met with his employees in what seemed to be an open forum for employees to ask questions. At this Apple town hall meeting, Jobs supposedly said that in regards to Google “We did not enter the search business [...] Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them.” Jobs continued this excited rhetoric and said Google’s “Don’t be evil” company mantra is “bull$hit.”

Jobs didn’t stop there. He continued to discuss Adobe and said that they were “lazy” and that Adobe has “all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy.” While the source who discussed these details of the Apple meeting could not reveal himself due to the fact that everything in the meeting was probably meant to be kept within the walls of the Apple company, there are other sources who are disputing what profanity and to what extreme that Jobs spoke. Either way, whether he used profanity or spoke some ill words about competing companies, I don’t blame him for having a firing speech.

Jobs is not only building a product, but also a culture internally in the company and externally with the public. I am not sure why the media is so surprised or shocked. Jobs is performing as a leader. It would have been completely different if Jobs went to a Google company meeting and yelled while Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, was talking what the oh so eloquent Rep. Joe Wilson said to Obama:

YOU LIE!

[via Wired]