I was comparing him to a ham sandwich earlier (Jobs). Does this offend you for some reason?
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Dr. Dre's Perfectionist Tendencies Spark Comparisons to Steve Jobs
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I was comparing him to a ham sandwich earlier (Jobs). Does this offend you for some reason?
No Jobs was not a brilliant developer.
But he was good at finding good developers and also good at foreseeing what will sell and what will not.
And Dr Dre seems to have good vision too especially if you take into account where his career started.
You're 100% correct. I could see that by page 2 of this thread.
It's a shame. It took me a while to work up the stomach to pay $400 for a pair of headphones. It blows my mind that some people buy $400+ headphones that sound so horrible. I'd love to share some of my rigs with them :shrug: You can get some greate stuff at that price point.
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Simply ask yourself this: if Jobs wanted to aggressively invade the headphone market, would the product have sounded like Beats?
What kind of moronic "insight" is this? Are you kidding? Apple needs Dr Doolittle to bring the "Cool Factor" to Apple? What?? The best part of this story is how DR Dinky Doo will be working with hardware. Yah I don't think that would go over very well. [new "iPhone Beats" with 4in subwoofers and head strap]
Most of us dont listen to music in situations where having a truely excellent set of cans will make a difference. The only time I ever sit down to appreciate music like that, I usually do it in a concert hall, because live.
Jobs abandoned his own daughter in poverty for a long time while he was making 100s of millions!
And He mistreated her after accepting her in his life !
He did not give a rats ass about original apple employees as he offered them 0 shares in the company!
He was a genius in certain areas no doubt but (by most standards) he would qualify as a Psychopathic Narcissist as well!
Naw, probably more like Apple. Steve was pretty attached to that whole single-brand-image thing.
Or wait was that not what you meant?
I think Steve would have been interested in the planar magnetic or electrostatic type cans. Considering the push for 'retina' and resolution at the end of his career, I think he would have wanted the same for audio.
You go learn history. Saint Jobs didn't design software or hardware. If "helping design" is actual coding, then ****... I'm a software designer too!!! But all I did was tell the programmers what works and doesn't in the real world for the software they were designing that our customers would use.
Saint Jobs was Brilliant in getting talented people to think beyond the status quo.
Period!
Oh please
try to compile some other phrase, that one isnt that great or accurate!
And still sold his company for $3 billion.
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You mean besides paying attention to every little detail, release very few products and most of them being outright hits?
try to compile some other phrase, that one isnt that great or accurate!
Um, whoa. I can see you frothing at the mouth from here. Its consumer electronics. Is it really that big a deal?
Build quality has been in a couple posts. They are notorious for breaking after a couple months.
So then would you agree than Beats are just $400+ jewelry if the consumer doesn't take the time to enjoy the music?
No one can and never will be compared to Steve Jobs. Sorry, Dre is awesome and has a ton of good music and artists under his belt; He will never come close to being like Steve Jobs.
Jobs designed the hardware layout in many of his products. He designed the calculator for the Macintosh, when he had 10 minutes to spare, which Apple used for more than 15 years
He designed MANY aspect of the Apple retail stores.
If Jobs was a full time designer, theres no doubt in my mind that he would be one of the worlds best.
You know what else is notorious for breaking after a couple months? iPhones. Drop it a few feet JUST SO and boom! More like diePhone, amiright? Guys?
Seriously, though, Ive heard from dozens of Beats owners that the build quality is quite nice and theyre very reliable. My own limited experience with them would indicate the same. So a few people had one that broke after a few months and are very vocal about it? Well, the same goes for iPhones. People always tell me that iPhones break really easily, despite my several iPhones not having even been scratched. Theres far too much of your statement that relies on personal use case, and since thats different for each person well, that kinda renders any arguments that rely on it invalid.
On the contrary, Jobs knew little about electronics, and Wozniak says Jobs never programmed a single line of code in his life.
Nope. He didn't know how to do those things. That's why he hired others who did.
Steve Jobs did none of that. He couldn't. He didn't have the knowledge to do so.
Steve Wozniak did the Breakout update (Jobs cheated him by lying about the payment amount), and the Apple I and II. Neither did the hardware for NeXT.
Part of the reason why Apple fired Jobs in the first place was because his technical ignorance kept getting in the way of things. A famous example is when he ordered the Mac team to make its memory lines prettier on the circuit board. The engineers explained to him that this would cause cross-talk, but Jobs ignored them and made them do it anyway. Sure enough, the board failed to work. It was a waste of time.
Ironically, I think it was his technical ignorance that helped him later on. By not knowing how hard it was to do things, he was not deterred in asking for his workers to implement them.
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