This video comes from Kate Bohner who is linked to having an extramarital affair with Google's CEO Eric Schmidt the year they went to Burning Man together in 2007. Also that year Steve Jobs put the "enemy" in "frienemy" when, according to Gawker, the relationship between the two companies soured. The story goes Jobs "broke up" with Schmidt while at a payphone 45 minutes outside of Black Rock City. And purportedly, Bohner had her part in this.
Now surfacing on a Gawker blog post is a recounting of what happened three years ago :"Schmidt's mobile phone rang on the highway between Reno and Burning Man's movable city in Black Rock Desert. It was Jobs, angry. The call then dropped; bad signal, middle of nowhere. The disconnect couldn't be blamed on a flaky iPhone connection: Schmidt had long ago given up on the Apple handset because he couldn't stand the on-screen keyboard. His wife had tested a prototype, but didn't care to keep it. Schmidt, we're told, ended up giving his iPhone to Bohner as a gift."Hey Eric! Where's MY gift? And, dude, don't forget the unwritten 11th principle of Burning Man: what happens on the playa stays on the playa.
And just one more thing: I'm left to wonder if I'm the only one that thinks "Bohner" is a hysterical name for a mistress?
More photos of Schmidt and Bohner on ValleyWag:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt at Burning Man with His Ex-Mistress
UPDATE - 3/26/2010 Apparently Jobs and Schmidt are talking again:
Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt share a coffee
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