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Steve Jobs Inspired by 9-Year-Old's iPad Story
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yep my thoughts exactly.
SJ is a good businessman and visionary but I would call him a horrible self centered person. There are plenty of cases out there backing the part of him being a horrible person.
One trait I really wish he would pick up from Bill Gates and would push Apple ti pick up from MS is the philanthropy. When SJ came back in 1997 he killed off all of Apple philanthropy and said he would bring it back when the company was doing better. Now over 13 years later it still has not come back.
How about some research funding for pancreatic cancer - he can get a grant from me any time.
Who ****ing cares.
How does this affect my iPad? Does this get us a retina display any faster? What does any of this have to do with sales? Does anyone really care if the CEO of Apple is self-centred? I don't even know the guy.
The average consumer doesn't give a sweet damn what the CEO's personality is like. Maybe Steve's wife and kids or something or his best drinking buddy, but otherwise it's not a factor.
You keep posting nonsense that has no meaning in the real world.
Let's make sure the CEO is a lovely person, and THEN it's ok to get the gear!
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Seems
is trying to make a smart ePaper with the iPad, which includes its thickness and capabilities such as longer battery life. Imagine OLED when cost effective will only make the iPad X thinner and last longer, including being more brighter and possibly retina display capability.
And yet people like you worship him like a god. The fact that you get defense when it is pointed out that he is a horrible person stats a lot.
Lets be blunt SJ is not good role model or someone you want to inspire to be. As a person he is horrible.
Apple is a poor corporate citizen. Apple does relatively little to help education compared to lets say MS. Go check out the stuff MS gives out on dreamspark.com this is on generally very good deals MS cuts with schools to supply the students with software. Add to it MS does other things to help new company get off the ground by going threw Bizspark which gives away some really great software.
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I doubt we worship and sacrifice to him.
The man is just wicked smart and very successful. He gets well-deserved praise and admiration. There's nothing wrong with that. And frankly, what a good role model. A helluva lot better than what typically influences young people.
All it states is that you keep posting about baloney that doesn't actually matter. Unless you're interested in marrying him. Are you? Did he offend you personally outside of La Folie restaurant last Saturday?
Yeah, he just runs the most successful tech company on the planet, having brought it from near-bankruptcy to what it is today in the span of a shade more than decade. Yeah, let's NOT emulate him. Not inspirational at all. Certainly not a case study in management.
Guess what. No one buying Apple gear really give a sweet damn what kind of "corporate citizen" Apple is. Their job is turn a profit by creating and selling products and to do it within the limits of the law. That's it. And by doing so, guess what they've done: changed the tech world. As for corporate citizenry, count Apple in with Google, MS, and all the rest that are looking for tax breaks.
MS helping education means sweet f all when their share value is in the basement and they're fumbling opportunities in all the key markets.
MS' philanthropy doesn't get a Windows 8 tablet into your hands any faster. In fact, maybe MS should focus a little more on cleaning up their circus act in consumer tech and FOCUS on getting tech out the door that doesn't suck, rather than giving away Office retreads to kids that want Apple gear.
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And to you LTD, stop posting Post-PC nonsense in every single thread. The world would be playing Angry Birds instead of working if iPads were Post-PC. The way you defend Apple and take those marketing terms like Post-PC seriously, you obviously are his worshiper.
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When SJ is right, he's right. Prescience is prescience. Simple as that. Look around you at how the industry has changed. June 2007 started it all.
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Steve? Don't kid yourself, he knows a good marketing opportunity when he sees one. Sadly, the man worships money more than anything else.
>> Your opinion, and the facts do not support your theory.
Don't believe it? Then you don't know Steve.
>> And you do? How do you know him?
Hey, it's his right, I'm not judging him but rather debunking the warm and fuzzy business behind this story.
>> Uh, yes, you are judging him.
If he was that kind of guy, it wouldn't take a story like that one to motivate him to act like a nice guy.
>> Really?
He's a hopeless narcissist, and that's just a fact. It's what makes things interesting. It's why Apple is the polarizing company it is.
>> Apple is not polarizing.
Just walk out from behind the walled garden into the sunlight, read the mainstream press and notice how many others view him the same way. His ego, and dictatorial ways precede him.
>> The mainstream press? That's a laugh. The mainstream press is so infatuated with hearing and seeing themselves talk, that they are blinded by their own ego's.
Steve? Don't kid yourself, he knows a good marketing opportunity when he sees one. Sadly, the man worships money more than anything else.
>> Your opinion, and the facts do not support your theory.
Don't believe it? Then you don't know Steve.
>> And you do? How do you know him?
Hey, it's his right, I'm not judging him but rather debunking the warm and fuzzy business behind this story.
>> Uh, yes, you are judging him.
If he was that kind of guy, it wouldn't take a story like that one to motivate him to act like a nice guy.
>> Really?
He's a hopeless narcissist, and that's just a fact. It's what makes things interesting. It's why Apple is the polarizing company it is.
>> Apple is not polarizing.
Just walk out from behind the walled garden into the sunlight, read the mainstream press and notice how many others view him the same way. His ego, and dictatorial ways precede him.
>> The mainstream press? That's a laugh. The mainstream press is so infatuated with hearing and seeing themselves talk, that they are blinded by their own ego's.
This is right, I work for a very large company and we are all referred to as leaders . All the way up until you hit the chief officers the few exceptions.
That really is a great story. One that would only be associated with Apple and Steve. I'd like to see something like this from Google, Microsoft or RIM too.
It shouldn't all just be about the bottom line.
It shouldn't all just be about the bottom line.
They can give away their softwares dirt cheap or free to students then when the students get to real life they can convince their employers to buy it up and they will more than make up their share after corp XYZ blows a wad on CALs base software, support contracts, and upgrades.
M$ is doing this because it helps M$. Apple sells software but is at the end of the day a hardware shop. They can't give 'it' (physical assets) away to millions of students. Maybe iPods but certainly not Mac Pros, minis.
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And how the hell does that make iPad Post-PC? Every time I ask this question in any thread (including yours), you never respond to it. Stop trolling around.
Do you not read the comment threads on this and every other forum in existence? Apple has got to be the most polarizing subject of discussion ever to exist on the internet.Look at the market and industry Pre-June 2007. Then look at it June 2011.
Note the differences. Post-PC era.
You can call it a different term if it makes you more comfortable. But that doesn't change the massive, palpable differences (in content delivery/distribution as well) that have occurred. The focus is all mobile, and the speed of development and change is rapid. The introduction of the iPad pushed us into the computing phase of mobile. It was a watershed moment. The market is already changing. The damage is already being done to established business models.
Get set for July 19th for a taste of things to come.
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Only on MacRumors would a news article with such a nice sentiment turn into an argument about what is the post PC era.
(I jest)
(I jest)