Full interview with Apple, Pixar CEO Steve Jobs

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Link: Full interview with Apple, Pixar CEO Steve Jobs (http://www.macbytes.com/link.php?sid=20050617185846)

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[loneAzdgari]

Why the hell is this being reported? It's months old!

[winmacguy]

I just printed it out for a morning read :)

[winmacguy]

Why the hell is this being reported? It's months old!
True but still interesting, although I did see that mentioned in another post elsewhere right after I posted it :D

[Daveway]

I love detailed interviews like this. :)

[J-Squire]

I was enjoying it until i got to the bottom of the first page, where it stated that "This spring, Apple will unveil Tiger, it's new Operating System". At that point, I went looking for a date for the article, which I found to be feb 2005. So I gave up. There's not going to be anything we didn't already know

[loneAzdgari]

I remember reading this ages ago, it was one of the first full length interviews that Jobs has done in years.

[wdlove]

History seems to be all that we get out of Steve Jobs. Actual definitive future plans would be a pleasant surprise.

[jholzner]

"His program, SoundJam, wasn't ready for market, but Jobs bought the company anyway, primarily because Robbin had impressed people while at Apple before."

This is just plain incorret. I BOUGHT SoundJam for my mac back in 1999 or 2000, before Apple bought them. I don't know why it says it wasn't ready for market.

[killmoms]

I think it's interesting that Steve was saying that the core of Apple was software back in Februrary. Rumblings of the x86 transition plans in his head even back then? Yes, Tiger was coming out in a couple months at the time of the interview, but it's interesting that he played that up even back then.

Then again, as they say, hindsight is 20/20. Maybe he was just selling Tiger. :p

[eric_n_dfw]

"His program, SoundJam, wasn't ready for market, but Jobs bought the company anyway, primarily because Robbin had impressed people while at Apple before."

This is just plain incorret. I BOUGHT SoundJam for my mac back in 1999 or 2000, before Apple bought them. I don't know why it says it wasn't ready for market.
I remember it being release too - but was it release for OS X yet or still just OS 9?

[thequicksilver]

I remember it being release too - but was it release for OS X yet or still just OS 9?

I believe not, as iTunes 1.0 was launched in January 2001, a few months before OS X came out. iTunes itself was ported over to OS X very early into the life of 10.0.

[polyesterlester]

I believe not, as iTunes 1.0 was launched in January 2001, a few months before OS X came out. iTunes itself was ported over to OS X very early into the life of 10.0.

Yeah, I remember the crappy CD player software that was included with the public beta (what was its name? Audio Player?).

Now, who's upset that a magazine like Fortune would report that Steve Jobs has an almost 50% 5-year survival rate to begin with? I know if they printed something like that about me, I'd be pissed. Think of how many people he's probably had to explain to that it was a fallacy.

[shamino]

"His program, SoundJam, wasn't ready for market, but Jobs bought the company anyway, primarily because Robbin had impressed people while at Apple before."

This is just plain incorret. I BOUGHT SoundJam for my mac back in 1999 or 2000, before Apple bought them. I don't know why it says it wasn't ready for market.
Yeah, I noticed that mistake as well.

I would have also mentioned that SoundJam was Apple's second choice. If you believe the folks at Panic (http://www.panic.com/), Apple first approached them with the intention to use Audion (http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/) as the basis for iTunes. (Of course, they didn't say so at the time.)

But I can overlook this. After all, it's a history of Apple, not an in-depth analysis of where iTunes came from.