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Steve Jobs' Legacy to Live On in 'Apple University'
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I don't like admitting it, but I am really crushed by his passing. I feel like a family member died. He was a childhood hero. When I was young instead of being a Policeman/Fireman I thought "I'd like to work at Apple someday."
My dream never came to fruition, but I became a small entrepreneur myself. Seeing what he did with Apple is amazing, the feats he accomplished seem almost impossible. He certainly is one of history's greats, I hope we can all learn much from him. He is an inspiration and a role model, and I'm really sad I will never get a chance to meet or see him in real life now. I can't wait to read the biography.
My dream never came to fruition, but I became a small entrepreneur myself. Seeing what he did with Apple is amazing, the feats he accomplished seem almost impossible. He certainly is one of history's greats, I hope we can all learn much from him. He is an inspiration and a role model, and I'm really sad I will never get a chance to meet or see him in real life now. I can't wait to read the biography.
This is really good to do. However, it is not unique like stated here in the article. Many company founders have an internal program set up to teach "their way" after their passing to future generations.
The most notable is the internal executive course set up by Walt Disney before he passed away. I wouldn't be surprised if Steve Jobs saw the internal and confidential Walt Disney movies where he expresses "his way" and was inspired to do this himself. Disney went off the rails in the 70s when the generation after Walt didn't take these internal courses. They got back to the courses and all was fine.
Just hope they have a checks and balances so some SOB doesn't alter and "reinterpret" Steve's philosophies. Times change but good business strategies are for the ages.
The most notable is the internal executive course set up by Walt Disney before he passed away. I wouldn't be surprised if Steve Jobs saw the internal and confidential Walt Disney movies where he expresses "his way" and was inspired to do this himself. Disney went off the rails in the 70s when the generation after Walt didn't take these internal courses. They got back to the courses and all was fine.
Just hope they have a checks and balances so some SOB doesn't alter and "reinterpret" Steve's philosophies. Times change but good business strategies are for the ages.
Now that you mention Bell Labs, I lived in an east coast "geek house" with a few Bell Labs types in my early years. One day a new Labs hire showed up with an unofficial "required reading" book that was Alexander Graham Bell's autobiography.
Bell was a very unique man who was very concerned with how wiring phones between communities would change society. Suddenly you could make an instant call over a distance where you didn't have to knock on a door of a house nor wait days for a written letter to return. While we take phones for granted now, the early telephone network crossed over a lot of social boundaries.
The first home wirings of telephones were only allowed in the reception room at the front of the house where guests were presented. This was done since talking with someone on the phone anywhere else in the house would "distrub the estate." Sounds pathetic now, but there were big social concerns about this back then.
In fact you can see a parallel between the partnerships of Bell / Watson and Jobs / Woz.
Well, you have to admit, you could have worse religions...
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I doubt it will be available to anyone outside Apple, but that's the first thing I was thinking too. I'd love to take that course.
He worked long hours and tended to get quite excited from time to time. He also knew how to relax and ate a far better diet than 98% of us.
Many people who have far less impact on the world live to be over 100. Many of those who have the most profound influence and who have the most to give, die young removing from us the things they could have created and the lessons they could teach the next generation.
Flash not only eats clock cycles, ram and battery, it also makes your hardware look buggy. When Bad Flash (There is no good Flash) crashes your browser, it does not make Flash look bad, it makes your browser look bad. Flash also ate into the key way Apple intends to make money and control quality. If People could run Flash on IOS, there would be no way to control what apps ran on IOS. Everyone would just port everything to Flash and put it on the web with no QC gateway.
As to the Lawsuits, any company that does not protect it's IP does not stay a company.
I don't think you understand the reason why Apple did what they did. The MDM9615 will not hit the market until q2 2012. The MDM9600 is battery eating garbage that takes up too much real estate. Apple will get better performance with HSPA+ on ATT and better life on everything else. They could have redesigned the shell, however, a smaller shell would reduce battery time.
Apple made the correct decision (I would have been upset if they had chosen to use technology that was not ready for the market.)
1. Flash has memory leaks that crash not only Flash but other applications including the OS (Even after Flash has exited.)
2. By allowing Flash, you get lots of Trash apps that could have been better coded using a real programming language.
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You can't train a person to be a genius, however, you can select the potential geniuses from a group, then give them the tools they need to be their best. This is what real education is.
Good read, however, her description of "energy" sounds an awful lot like DNA. There is much we don't know about DNA, and they do say that DNA plays a part in cancer. The fact that different species are susceptible to different diseases alone suggests that with the proper genes, you could be made immune to a wide variety of diseases. There is ongoing work in that area, so we may yet find a cure for cancer, I just wish we could have found it before it took such a great man from us...
Actually it does not, and he is correct. Besides, long hours doesn't mean you're under stress, especially if you love what you're doing. You say stress, he says fun. This year cancer is expected to become the leading cause of death worlwide, irrespective of stress or diet.
In the end, we are all worm-food and only our contributions will matter; make your lives matter!
Indeed!
One certainly can say that most don't care. And you cannot say that Android sales are based on the presence of poorly performing Flash and not on BOGO deals and cheapo phones.
Hyperbole is just hyperbole.
This seems optimistic but I feel that Apple will eventually end up like all the other tech companies that skyrocketed, plateaued then stagnated.
Remember Apple is a public company.
Remember Apple is a public company.
I think the specifics are applicable only to Apple. However, the broader outlines are accessible to you. The article mentions accountability, perfectionism and such. Part of it is also the mission statement of the company. Not the one one the website, the one that is actually practiced.
Speaking of a company I knew I once complained that they didn't care about customers. One ex-manager argued back saying he had often heard the CEO talk about how the customers came first. I replied that yes, the CEO often said that, but no one ever got fired or lost a bonus because a shipment was late or didn't work out of the box. People got rewarded for cutting costs and reducing risks. If it meant that a customer had to wait an extra week or two that was acceptable. It wasn't part of a stated policy, it was how the company worked. The company was managed by finances, not with an eye to producing a great product.
Death A La Steve Jobs Style.
Here is my Humble tribute to the Legend: http://designermac.com/?p=193
May his soul rest in peace.
Here is my Humble tribute to the Legend: http://designermac.com/?p=193
May his soul rest in peace.
What? I'm vegetarian and all doctor i've talked (usually my custumers) says "Lucky for you". Don't be silly, a diet can be good or wrong with meat or not, usually vegetarian have less pathologies because meat consume is exaggerated nowadays. Luckily you're not a doctor.
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Flash is crap, it always been even before all the wars on public forums. If you still don't get it.... i can't say anything to convince you. Just a flash video in pause, slow down the rest of system (i can't play Starcraft2 when i have a flash video in pause), it is not stander, it is low, it is not accessible. Flash must die and Apple accelerated this process.
Bluray is born old. I work in a computer shop and i can assure you very few people care about Crapray, the future is digital distribution over internet. Even a SD would be much more better to host media, blue ray are optical so mechanical easily broke, they take a lot of battery because or mechanical and decoding, they are slow as hell, and take a lot of space inside your computer. Bluray will die pretty soon, it will not last like DVDs.
I think "institution" is the better word, because things like this only serve to institutionalize a status quo - there won't be any real development from now on, only preservation. These things usually happen when a visionary hands over the scepter to successors with lesser vision and capability. Just look back two thousand years in time to what happened to Christianity when the first pope took over.
Religion? It's about teaching ideas and observations on how to make a corporation succeed in the competitive technology business. Nothing more. Some of you guys...
And even then, one could argue that for the clueless leaving Flash out is good (better battery life, less problems).
Last time I cared, reviews still kinda recommended turning off Flash in Android devices. Has that improved lately?
I don't see where is the parallelism.
Did he write an open letter about the problems of color and why it was not being used in the iPods?
Yes, because Adobe has already demonstrated that they are only waiting for APIs to make Flash suck less. Uh-huh.