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Steve Jobs Inspired by 9-Year-Old's iPad Story
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i dont think people realize how much some people rely on ipads whether it be for education or disability or medicine, etc. it has really changed the way people do things. its sad to think most competitors are just making tablets to compete. you can tell every time a new ipad comes out apple improves it in different areas for the different people it helps. no offense but when i competitor tablets i see specs and nothing else. good job apple. i hope to see more kindness out of you whether it be a simple email or helping a community like in the japan earthquake. 
The iPad is an interface for everything, is an extension of you, your tool, it is a canvas. All you need is the application. Steve is powering that canvas so the softwares can expand and have better functionality.
The iPad is the perfect enhanced reality hardware. It was meant to improve the reality, and is intuitive and simple.
The iPad is the perfect enhanced reality hardware. It was meant to improve the reality, and is intuitive and simple.
I think your argument might have more legs if Steve had asked for open-ended permission to share her story. Then maybe you'd see a commercial showing Apple's "human" side as a sales ploy. But that's not what happened. He asked permission to share her story internally, and even then limited only to certain key employees. It's a morale booster for the company.
Someone else, the mother likely, released Steve's email reply. All the emails you see on these sites were leaked by the recipient of a reply.
Don't kid yourself. I still do so many things on my iMac that iOS 5 still won't let me do on my iPad.
Amongst them:
- Video Editing (... not professionally exactly, but more so than the iPad can do.)
- Programming.
- Making Documents (sure, the iPad can do it... but... it just feels so much more tedious... so many screen taps for what can be done with a single keyboard combo.)
- Playing games (goes back to needing keyboard combos to play games like StarCraft II... or physical controls for FPS games. Many iPad games have to be dumbed down to work within the limits of the iPad or else have crowded interfaces.)
Every device and thing around us today is a computer. You are taking it too literally and totally missing the point of what that term means! They are referring to the era of the last 30-40 years that was mainly the evolution of desktop computers as we have come to know them. We are clearly now in a new phase of computing that is being lead by mobility and hence new form factors and user experiences! I don't think there is any arguing against that whether you like the way Apple termed it or not.
I wonder if it's more effective zooming up on an iPad screen, or doubling the size of an iPhone app on the iPad?
Power. When you got too much money to spend in 1000 lives money isn't that important anymore, Power is.
Hey, I work for a multinational that has about 250 top leaders, and each year they go on a retreat together, to 'bond' and learn about 'teamwork'. This is usually done early in the year, before they nix our budgets.
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Store managers have changed their role names to being called Store Leaders. This is what they possibly meant by leaders.
Store managers have changed their role names to being called Store Leaders. This is what they possibly meant by leaders.
Does that mean fiona will be getting a free ipad 3 when it comes out Im sure the top 100 leaders will be happy to hear the email.
Im sure the top 100 leaders will be happy to hear the email.
Wrong. He already has more money than anyone can spend. Call it 'power' if you like, but changing the world, causing seismic shifts in the way we live, is what motivates Steve.
I find it rather sad how some people seem to jump to the most negative possible conclusions about other people's motivations.
This story was not released by Apple and no doubt the image will be used when Steve gives his presentation. Why assume this is all some kind of publicity stunt? Does anyone here worry that Apple doesn't get enough publicity?
I always feel that people who assume the worst of other are probably projecting their own views more than anything else. No one here would argue that Jobs is a saint - he's never pretended to be - but certainly he believes in things other than money and power. No one is entirely motivated by money and power. No one in the real world anyway. That sort of character only exists in fairy stories. In the real world people are motivated by so much more than that. Why does he want to share this story? Because his people work long and hard and, yes, they earn good money, but the thing that keeps them going is knowing that what they do makes such a huge difference to the lives of people like Fiona.
On the subject of the term 'leaders'; it's now fairly standard business terminology to refer to your top leaders or leadership team when discussing the more senior members of the organistion. It's not cultish.
This story was not released by Apple and no doubt the image will be used when Steve gives his presentation. Why assume this is all some kind of publicity stunt? Does anyone here worry that Apple doesn't get enough publicity?
I always feel that people who assume the worst of other are probably projecting their own views more than anything else. No one here would argue that Jobs is a saint - he's never pretended to be - but certainly he believes in things other than money and power. No one is entirely motivated by money and power. No one in the real world anyway. That sort of character only exists in fairy stories. In the real world people are motivated by so much more than that. Why does he want to share this story? Because his people work long and hard and, yes, they earn good money, but the thing that keeps them going is knowing that what they do makes such a huge difference to the lives of people like Fiona.
On the subject of the term 'leaders'; it's now fairly standard business terminology to refer to your top leaders or leadership team when discussing the more senior members of the organistion. It's not cultish.
Isn't that the very definition of a good businessman? Love it or hate it but the crux of a successful leader is often self-interests, and in way those interests drive us everyday. Don't kid yourself over morality and values-- almost everyone is influenced by the power of money. It's what motivates us to do almost everything, at least at a primal level. You would be very hard pressed to find others who would act differently in his situation.
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Money is power, you will not have one without the other. The question has always been, what will you choose to do with it?
