Eric Schmidt

Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt says Google isn’t trying to make money, they’re trying to change the world. And so goes the interview where he lays out his thoughts on various aspects of their business.

On application innovation: “We’re not trying to design the future. We’re inventing it along the way.”

On their competition: ”We’re not focusing on our competitors. We’re focusing on the future and what our customers like.”

On the enterprise vs. the consumer: “We don’t see the enterprise as a necessarily differerent business from the consumer business. We see consumers wanting similar things in their personal and work life and the technologies are not separate anymore. However, if we offered our enterprise applications for free, that would be too disruptive. So, We decided to build our enterprise model with a new lower price point with very high levels of service.”

On Chrome OS:  “Chrome OS will be free and it will drive down pc costs even more.” They’re going to start with netbooks. A netbook with Chrome OS will be available at some point in 2010. It will not come with a hard drive. Everything will be stored external to the device, but there will be local caching. That way you can do work when you’re off the Internet.

On their niche: “We’re trying to solve the broadest problems with the broadest flexibility. That’s our niche. We build our apps for 100 million people.” 

On their plan:  “All of our services are being hardened. We’re building for robustness, efficiency, and scale. We’re really building a whole new computational platform.”