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Btw where is the rest of it?
Steve Jobs "60 Minutes" Interview
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I have a new Techno Track coming out in a week called MACINTOSH FREEDOM. This track is beyond awesome and it will hit Techno Charts world wide.
I used cleared samples of Steve Introducing the Mac and of Bill Gates commenting on MAC.
APPLE has contacted me about using the song on commercials. Trying to work out the details now.
I used cleared samples of Steve Introducing the Mac and of Bill Gates commenting on MAC.
APPLE has contacted me about using the song on commercials. Trying to work out the details now.
Startups are often wild 'n' wooly affairs, with people coming and going, friendships made and broken, back-of-the-napkin deals & etc. I have no knowledg of this particular AAPL employee, but it's possible Jobs came to dislike or distrust him -- perhaps for good reason. As another poster said, it's absurd to judge without the full facts.
"Apparently" is the right word, in the absence of the other side of the story -- "unauthorized" means full of material from Jobs's enemies, no rebuttal from Jobs himself.
I found the biography very well balanced. Steve Jobs had banned it from Apple Store.
It's very laudatory of Steve. Calls him a genius many times.
I will say this, Steve never really thought much of money and material things. The 60 minute interview quotes him as saying he felt money changed people for the worse. So in that way, he could have been indifferent to what people received. But on the other hand, he was very tough negiotiator and bargained very hard for everything. George Lucas wanted $60 million for Pixar, Steve got it for like $5 million.
Personally I think he should have rewarded those who were loyal to him.
It's very laudatory of Steve. Calls him a genius many times.
I will say this, Steve never really thought much of money and material things. The 60 minute interview quotes him as saying he felt money changed people for the worse. So in that way, he could have been indifferent to what people received. But on the other hand, he was very tough negiotiator and bargained very hard for everything. George Lucas wanted $60 million for Pixar, Steve got it for like $5 million.
Personally I think he should have rewarded those who were loyal to him.
What exactly made him a genius?
From what I have read and seen he was a ruthless sob boss who got lucky with an elite programmer in the beginning, and got saved by george lucas who threw him a bone.
Since his return to apple, he hasnt made anything new just gone with the idea, "people want technology as simple as possible" also, "kids and young adults are stupid and will buy anything as long as you make it trendy"
He was visionary. One of the reason I wanted to read his biography was to understand what his impact was on Pixar. He bought it in 1986 and persevered with the company for 9 years before they finally hit it big with Toy Story. He sunk tens of millions into Pixar and never gave up hope (well he did think about selling a few times but didn't). The real genius at Pixar was John Lassetter. Jobs' greatest strength was his ability to be able to exploit the potential that he found.
At Apple (first time), he had Woz.
For the Mac, he had Andy Herzfeld, Bill Atkinson (another guy he screwed in compensation), Burrell Smith.
At Next Computer, he had Avie Tevanian.
At Pixar, John Lassetter.
At Apple (second time), he had Jonathan Ive.
If he had only done it once, then all this praise is unwarranted but he did it over and over again.
At Apple (first time), he had Woz.
For the Mac, he had Andy Herzfeld, Bill Atkinson (another guy he screwed in compensation), Burrell Smith.
At Next Computer, he had Avie Tevanian.
At Pixar, John Lassetter.
At Apple (second time), he had Jonathan Ive.
If he had only done it once, then all this praise is unwarranted but he did it over and over again.
Kind of difficult task now, if you ask me....
A nugget from his Wiki page:
"In the coming months, many employees developed a fear of encountering Jobs while riding in the elevator, "afraid that they might not have a job when the doors opened. The reality was that Jobs's summary executions were rare, but a handful of victims was enough to terrorize a whole company.""
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The once and future Steve Jobs
http://www.salon.com/2000/10/11/jobs_excerpt/
He tormented Heidi Roizen with constant calls to her office phone, home phone, cellphone and pager, starting at 7 a.m. almost every day. She was so unnerved by his interrogations and his frequent tirades that she decided the only way to preserve her mental health was to ignore his calls. She tried to communicate with him only by e-mail, which enabled her to consider the issues calmly and rationally, unaffected by the irresistible force of his compelling live presence.
Heidi talked with Bill Campbell, whom Steve had named to Appleâs board of directors. Bill was a bona fide tough guy, a former college football coach, but he confessed that he, too, was unnerved by Steveâs constant phone calls.
âDo what I do,â she advised him. âDonât answer the phone.â
âThatâs what my wife said. I tried that. But then Steve would come over to my house. He lives only three blocks away.â
âDonât answer the door.â
âI tried that. But my dog sees him and goes berserk.â
Exactly. Easy to throw mud at someone who can no longer defend himself.