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First Trailer for 'Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine' Documentary Released
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My comments about no email client were relating only to the Kin and Courier, products that never saw the light of day for consumers. MS engineers argued with Gates they didn't need an email client when they could use webmail. The ridiculous belief that a tablet must have a full blown OS has been totally debunked. Has MS sold that many Surface tabs that proves this point? No. Apple realised that only a condensed version of OS X would work without the need for massive RAM or CPU hardware. It was a smart and innovative move, but people STILL argue for full blown OS's on tabs. History has proven you all wrong, no matter what you believe. The numbers do not lie.
The original Mac had the UI interface that the Windows couldn't touch. It had a much sharper, albeit smaller, black and white monitor. True you gave up color but you got much better text on the screen. Text with fonts and which was easier to read. Things like networking was built in, so you had built in stuff like instant chatting and you could set up your own server or blog type page. And this was in the early 90s. You could use a Mac Classic 2 in 1991 and the experience would be at least recognizable to your computing experience now. Windows was still a mess and it still looked like a low resolution mess.
There were many full windows tablets around, the TC1000 was one of my favorites and quite an awesome tablet. The courier was never released to my knowledge so I'd hardly call it a failure, lest we delve into Apple's unreleased products and call them "failures" also. The Kin was awful, even if the iPhone didn't exist the Kin would have bombed it was so bad.
As for "the ridiculous belief that a tablet must have a full blown OS has been totally debunked" that's not true in the least. The surface tablets are doing quite well and are very profitable for MS, demonstrating a 117% increase in revenue. Yes that's a very small amount compared to the iPad but it is very good progress and it's reflecting a very short time in relation to the surface 3 release which is a much cheaper, and better battery life tablet which should be more popular with the non enterprise crowd. You couldn't pry my full blown OS out of my hands ever, I would never go back to an iPad in a million years. I don't expect that sentiment to be the majority of the market, but I do predict it will be enough of the market to give Microsoft a decent portion of the market. Something like continuum seals the deal, it's such an incredible concept for computing. Dock your tablet (or smartphone!!!) into your full monitor/keyboard/mouse setup at home and work and enjoy a "full blown OS", no desktop or laptop required. Simply amazing. And the iPad doesn't even have mouse support, lol.
Anyhow my point isn't to denigrate the iPad, there are plenty of consumers who just want email, to look at pictures, YouTube, and play games. The cool thing is the windows tablets can do that ALSO so there is no downside to having a full blown OS. No downside in size, thinness, weight, battery life, etc. The app market is more robust on Apple's side so that's a decision a consumer has to make if certain apps are more important, and it's great that consumers have the ability to decide. Personally I think having dual natured apps is the way to go, when in tablet/phone mode the app acts like an app on a small touchscreen, when docked it acts as a full desktop program with a mouse.
So no, history has not proven me wrong, looking at the profit spreadsheets it's actually proven me quite correct, "the numbers don't lie". Apple did the right thing, they released an incredible tablet that was thin, light and had long battery life but to do it they had to massively water down the OS, a necessary evil. Times have changed and a watered down OS is no longer required, but to put OSx on a tablet would mean sales of desktop and laptops would suffer. Don't kid yourself on Apple's motives.
Right... I'm sure all these movies are based on meeting Steve Jobs. The book he personally authorized has been dismissed by his buddies at Apple.
I'm not making a character judgment. I'm making a point about people dismissing jerk behavior because money. If you don't see that behavior on the web in these types of conversations, maybe you're part of the problem. But then I've never met you. I've also never met any of the other people written about throughout history, nor did many of the authors of such books and articles and studies...
But keep going with your redirection logic fallacy if you like.
Right but the person in the clip already HAD A FAMILY that he lost to his work. I don't know how many ways I can say the same thing.
I have also enjoyed several of Gibney's documentaries: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, and The Armstrong Lie.
However, this review of Steve Jobs: The Man In the Machine gives me cause for concern. Here's an excerpt:
Sounds like Gibney is another professional content creator not happy with and betrayed by Job's pursuit of mobile toys for the masses and abandonment of the pro market. Certainly not the only person whose livlihood depended upon Apple not happy with the man and his direction in his last years. It is easy to ascribe the negatives of greed and cult leader leanings to someone who choose a ton of money over servicing a highly loyal and highly invested high end customer base that had given Apple COMPUTERS much of their innovative cachet for decades.
While some of this damage has been mitigated somewhat in recent years, Apple will never regain the trust or the share of the market it had in Hollywood and among pro content creators.
q.v.: Whiplash
Tough teachers/coaches/managers/senseis are out of fashion at the moment, but there's no arguing that they can get the job done (if their pupils, as you say, survive).
I watched this film today, it didn't reveal anything I didn't already know about Steve and I expect most here who've been a fan of Apple for the past decade would know as well.
Steve was a flawed human being that's pretty much the tl;dr of the documentary and it's not shining a light on anything new.
Steve was a flawed human being that's pretty much the tl;dr of the documentary and it's not shining a light on anything new.
I was a windows xp and pocket pc fan until about 6 years ago when the iPhone 3GS came out. That ended my boycott!
Well at least one thing's for sure - - Edison was a saint!
A Saintly bastard. He made jobs look like mother Theresa ;-), except saint mother Theresa was by all account herself a bastard... Oh well... Maybe, all icons are just as flawed as the rest of us! Humans!