Timeline: Steve Jobs' career. Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma - James Allworth. Steve Jobs Talk 1983 - Center for Design Innovation by TNW. History of the iPhone, dedicated to the memory of Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs. Not long after Steve Jobs got married, in 1991, he moved with his wife to a nineteen-thirties, Cotswolds-style house in old Palo Alto.
Jobs always found it difficult to furnish the places where he lived. His previous house had only a mattress, a table, and chairs. He needed things to be perfect, and it took time to figure out what perfect was. This time, he had a wife and family in tow, but it made little difference. “We spoke about furniture in theory for eight years,” his wife, Laurene Powell, tells Walter Isaacson, in “Steve Jobs,” Isaacson’s enthralling new biography of the Apple founder. Steve Jobs: timeline. What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really? Hello there!
If you enjoy the content on Neurotribes, consider subscribing for future posts via email or RSS feed. Kobun Chino Otogawa, Steve Jobs' Zen teacher. One reason I was looking forward to reading Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs was my hope that, as a sharp-eyed reporter, Isaacson would probe to the heart of what one of the few entrepreneurs who really deserved the term “visionary” learned from Buddhism. By now, everyone knows the stories of how the future founder of Apple dropped acid, went to India on a quest for spiritual insight, met a laughing Hindu holy man who took a straight razor to his unkempt hair, and was married in a Zen ceremony to Laurene Powell in 1991. I was curious how Jobs’ 20-year friendship with the monk who performed his wedding — a wiry, swarthily handsome Japanese priest named Kobun Chino Otogawa — informed his ambitious vision for Apple, beyond his acquiring a lifetime supply of black, Zen-ish Issey Miyake turtlenecks.
Flowers at Tassajara. Apple Macintosh presentation 1984. Two quotes that explain why Steve Jobs built products the way he did - Blog - Jason Hiner. This was originally published in May 2010, but I'm republishing it in light of Steve Jobs' passing because it helps to illustrate why he did things the way he did.
Apple has come under fire recently for its approach to product secrecy that led Apple to push police to investigate Gizmodo for how it handled the lost/stolen iPhone prototype. The issue has also shined the spotlight on Apple's whole approach to a closed ecosystem with iTunes and the iPhone/iPad App Store. This is often attributed to Apple CEO Steve Jobs being a control freak and Apple being greedy. There are certainly elements of both of those things driving Apple's behavior. But, I recently ran across an article about Jobs in Success Magazine that had a collection of quotes from Jobs about innovation, including the following two quotes that shed an interesting light on how Jobs justifies the closed ecosystem: 1.) 2.) I'm not posting this to defend Apple.
Remembering Steve Jobs in quotes. All about Steve Jobs.com. Steve Jobs In Pictures. 9 things you didn’t know about the life of Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs leans against his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs (Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle/Corbis) For all of his years in the spotlight at the helm of Apple, Steve Jobs in many ways remains an inscrutable figure — even in his death.
Fiercely private, Jobs concealed most specifics about his personal life, from his curious family life to the details of his battle with pancreatic cancer — a disease that ultimately claimed him on Wednesday, at the age of 56. While the CEO and co-founder of Apple steered most interviews away from the public fascination with his private life, there's plenty we know about Jobs the person, beyond the Mac and the iPhone. If anything, the obscure details of his interior life paint a subtler, more nuanced portrait of how one of the finest technology minds of our time grew into the dynamo that we remember him as today. 1. Early life and childhood Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955. Reed College2. The Mothership! Watch 60 Minutes Interview with Steve Jobs Biographer Walter Isaacson. The Life of Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs' Best Video Moments on Stage (1/3)
Steve Jobs' Best Video Moments on Stage (2/3) Steve Jobs' Best Video Moments on Stage (3/3) Steve Jobs working on Apple’s next product day before his death. Steve Jobs was never known to be a man who sat still and, even while being away from the company for nearly 1/3 of its history, still lived and breathed Apple.
That’s why this account isn’t incredibly surprising, even as it reaffirms how dedicated he was to making the company’s products the best they could be. Apparently, according to PC Mag, the day of the announcement of the iPhone 4S, Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank was talking to Apple CEO Tim Cook, when Cook got a call: I visited Apple for the announcement of the iPhone 4S [at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California]. When I was having a meeting with Tim Cook, he said, ‘Oh Masa, sorry I have to quit our meeting.’ I said, ‘Where are you going?’ Since this was after the announcement of the iPhone 4S, it is likely that Cook was referring to another product in Apple’s pipeline, although it’s unclear whether that was a new iPhone or another upcoming product.
I personally find it very telling that Cook refers to Jobs as ‘my boss’. How Steve Jobs transformed the tech industry. It's difficult to overstate how dramatically Steve Jobs reshaped how we interact with computers.
The irascible, brilliant impresario led a transition from minicomputers and IBM PCs squashed into beige metal boxes to the Macintosh, the iPhone, and the concept that technology should be fun to use. Thanks to more than a dozen books about the Apple co-founder, and movies like Pirates of Silicon Valley, much of Jobs' life has become well-known. He started Apple with legendary engineer Steve Wozniak, at a time when the personal computer industry barely existed, after dropping out of Reed College. Jobs returned to Apple in 1996--CNET's headline at the time quipped that Apple had "acquired" Steve Jobs--and then went on to reshape the music industry and the mobile phone business. With the iPad, Apple validated, or perhaps even created, the tablet business. But what's not as well-known is how Jobs' later successes arose from his previous failures. The cube was a flop. "What would I do?