In every great career comes one stunning horrid failure/defeat. His made him stronger as he focused on his family and started a giant motion picture animation company.Jobs had to leave and grow up a bit.
Stay in la-la land.
Your version of history is somewhat skewed.
The only heavy lifting Apple or MS did was lifting ideas and code from Xerox.
"Steve said: 'How can I possibly ask somebody what a graphics-based computer ought to be when they have no idea what a graphic based computer is?
So basically Jobs thinks everyone is an idiot hence the iron grip on the UI, everything going through iTunes....all in the name of the end user's "experience".
Its interesting that Sculley was extremely kind to Jobs in this interview. Whereas, Jobs has pretty much lambasted him every chance hes gotten...
Pretty straightforward - Steve actively RECRUITED Sculley to Apple - remember the famous line about selling flavored water for the rest of your career...
Sculley turns into a Viper in his Pocket and gets him fired. Thus...
steve looks like such a baller lol
John Sculley is the man!
"Steve said: 'How can I possibly ask somebody what a graphics-based computer ought to be when they have no idea what a graphic based computer is? No one has ever seen one before.' He believed that showing someone a calculator, for example, would not give them any indication as to where the computer was going to go because it was just too big a leap."
So basically Jobs thinks everyone is an idiot hence the iron grip on the UI, everything going through iTunes....all in the name of the end user's "experience".
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So basically Jobs thinks everyone is an idiot hence the iron grip on the UI, everything going through iTunes....all in the name of the end user's "experience".
xerox had it locked away in a lab with no plans to sell it. MS and Apple did the development work to get it working as a product people would buy and write the API's for developers to code apps for
"Steve said: 'How can I possibly ask somebody what a graphics-based computer ought to be when they have no idea what a graphic based computer is? No one has ever seen one before.' He believed that showing someone a calculator, for example, would not give them any indication as to where the computer was going to go because it was just too big a leap."
So basically Jobs thinks everyone is an idiot hence the iron grip on the UI, everything going through iTunes....all in the name of the end user's "experience".
Who knows what Apple would be today, if Steve had remained CEO all these years...?
"Steve said: 'How can I possibly ask somebody what a graphics-based computer ought to be when they have no idea what a graphic based computer is? No one has ever seen one before.' He believed that showing someone a calculator, for example, would not give them any indication as to where the computer was going to go because it was just too big a leap."
So basically Jobs thinks everyone is an idiot hence the iron grip on the UI, everything going through iTunes....all in the name of the end user's "experience".
That particular machine was never meant to be a consumer product, hence why it was only sold to research facilities and universities.Xerox sold a lot of these machines. The Xerox Star was a very popular business and Research machine. I worked on a Xerox Dandelion 1108 and later a Xerox Daybreak 1186. (Both were D series machines.). I was doing some cognitive science research work in Pittsburgh at the time.
Working on those machines was like sitting in front of a piece of science fiction everyday. I would describe them to my computer literate friends, and they would just stare at me... Most of them had never seen a bitmapped screen or mouse in person, let alone work on them.
The Dandelion I had was about the size of a two drawer file cabinet. It had a CRT monitor with about the same resolution screen as the iPad I'm typing this on now. It was an expensive machine, I think mine cost $30 grand or so. I still have a bunch of InterLisp D code on a box of 8" floppy disks.
I would sit in front of the Dandelion, and as I worked, slowly it became clear to me that computers were about to change. (This was in the early 80's). The future was here, it just wasn't evenly distributed.
That particular machine was never meant to be a consumer product, hence why it was only sold to research facilities and universities.
Also I highly doubt that machine had the same resolution screen as the iPad.
"The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse'. There is no evidence that people want to use these things."
John C. Dvorak, San Francisco Examiner 19 Feb. 1984