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Previously Untold Recollections of Steve Jobs: 'Scuffgate' 2004, 'Hide the Porsches', and More
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1a) Not true. The iPhone 5 is a product of the Steve Jobs era.
2a) Hardly. It may have played a small part, but the bigger picture was Steve's talent as a world class sales person. He could hype a product and deliver the most convincing show of all. He could work a crowd into a buying frenzy so intense it continues to sell products.
Apple is not a one man band. They have a huge cadre of talented people that work together to make all this happen.
Jobs was simply good at taking all the credit.
No he very obviously stated he didn't want Perot to realize how much money they were making. Steve Jobs wasn't a saint. He was a cut throat, do anything it takes to make a profit, business man.
I like a nice clean floor when I come into a store. I think that attention to small details and micromanaging is essential in the business world. Some exceptions do apply, but by and large it takes a certain type A personality to get it just right.
With all due respect, Steve Jobs was notorious for putting form before function.
A key reason Macbook Pros don't have blueray players is Steve wanted slot-type cd drives instead of a tray coming out, as Steve thought they were far more elegant. When told slot drives would limit the future functionality of the players, Steve went ahead anyways.
The investor is investing in the company. The cars are owned by individuals, not the company. Your point is moot; Jobs was simply managing "impressions" which is perfectly reasonable and in fact smart.
Except Ross Perot. He had to hide his Porsche from him.
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Making up attributes is half the fun of hero worship.
Irony, Jobs ended up worth more than Perot and could probably more easily get elected President, should he want to stoop so low.
This. I think he was a phenomenal product salesman. IMO the only one who comes close to Steve in making me want an Apple product is Jony Ive (I think BuzzFeed joked that he could sell himself hair care products), but unfortunately he doesn't do keynotes.
Don't flatter yourself. You are in all likelihood not fascinating, yet still a dick evidently
SJ was bat ****** crazy with an identifiable mental illness
SJ was a genius
Geniuses are not always wise. Wise people do not treat cancer herbally!
SJ certainly did often demand form over function
SJ probably left the scene at about the right time in terms of the business of Apple. Note that the stock price went 'way up. Wall Street did not understand or like him at all, which can be both a good and bad thing at the same time.
SJ was a genius
Geniuses are not always wise. Wise people do not treat cancer herbally!
SJ certainly did often demand form over function
SJ probably left the scene at about the right time in terms of the business of Apple. Note that the stock price went 'way up. Wall Street did not understand or like him at all, which can be both a good and bad thing at the same time.
The first two major incarnations of PS3 had a slot-loading Blu-Ray drive. So how exactly does it limit such functionality?
Steve Jobs would have gone crazy if he ever saw the Apple Store at the Bullring store in Birmingham, UK. Half the chairs are broken, panels falling off, blown bulbs, fluff under every table and in every corner. Guess it is what you get having the smallest units in one of the busiest shopping centres in the world. Shop floor is no larger than 1,500 sq ft. Apple have been enquiring about moving to a 30,000 sq ft unit in the Bullring though.
Can't get enough of the Steve Jobs stories. Reminds me of the better times of Apple. ****** Cook. He's taking a ***** on the company. End.
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You are full of s***, if you think Steve Jobs had anything to do with anything coming out of Apple for about a year 1/2 back, you're misguided. You people need to realize that Steve Jobs knew he was sick and was exploring every option he could to stay alive, his thoughts were on A.) his family and B.) staying alive. Period. iPhone 5/iOS 6/Lion, Mountain Lion were all under Cook's discretion.
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You are full of s***, if you think Steve Jobs had anything to do with anything coming out of Apple for about a year 1/2 back, you're misguided. You people need to realize that Steve Jobs knew he was sick and was exploring every option he could to stay alive, his thoughts were on A.) his family and B.) staying alive. Period. iPhone 5/iOS 6/Lion, Mountain Lion were all under Cook's discretion.
I don't understand how people get this idea that everything was 'perfect' when Steve was around. No, they were not! The Core 2 Duo MacBook was a perfect example - bloating battery and cracking armrest+bezel. "Steve wouldn't have allowed it"? Right.
Huh, what are you talking about? PS3 uses slot-loading, and it's one of the earliest blu-ray players.
Huh, what are you talking about? PS3 uses slot-loading, and it's one of the earliest blu-ray players.
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Ummm... Short term memory? Many apple devices have been challenged over the years... The cube (plastic issue), the hockey puck mouse, antenna gate.. I am sure there are many more, after all we are only human
Until the Mighty Mouse (still the best mouse), all of the Apple mice sucked. Why the single button??? Yeah, just for looks. Well, they did look good.
My what an interesting series of assumptions. Perhaps you missed all the posts that revealed Jobs left behind specific plans for over five years of products. It went on to talk about his hands on involvement with what is now iPhone 5 & others.
That said it's important that you be happy with your beliefs. Especially of that impacts your perception of Apple.
I have remained very loyal to Apple through both good times & bad.
Yet there's no company I know of where every product is a milestone & far better than the last. That's where a great number of Apple buyers differ. Those in the group proudly declare any new Apple product a game changer in the footsteps of their hero.
He was a man not a god... there seems to be a bit of an unhealthy affixation on this one person here.
Do any of "all those posts" have any concrete facts to back up their suppositions about a "five year pipeline"?
I didn't think so.