Steve Jobs: “I Admire Mark Zuckerberg For Not Selling Out” The 60 Minutes interview with Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson is up on the web, but one of the most interesting parts is an outtake that didn’t make it into the televised segment. In it, we hear Steve Jobs talking about his rivals directly from some of Isaacson’s taped interviews. While Jobs was withering in his assessment of Google and Microsoft, he expressed respect for Facebook and founder Mark Zuckerberg. “We talk about social networks in the plural,” Jobs told Isaacson, “but I don’t see anybody other than Facebook out there. Just Facebook, They are dominating this. He doesn’t have such nice things to say about Google or Microsoft. Jobs’ relationship with Bill Gates goes back the furthest and is the most complicated. Only later did Gates relate to Isaacson: “What I didn’t tell Steve is that it only works when you have a Steve Jobs.”
Realigning the Stars | What I Couldn't Say… I got to know Steve Jobs during a period when success eluded him. When he’d left Apple, and founded NeXT Computer, Inc. In 1989, a few friends and I started a software company, Lighthouse Design, that devoted itself to the NeXT platform. Whether any of us admitted it at the time, Lighthouse was built by a group of people for whom Steve Jobs was the gravitational center of the universe. At Carnegie Mellon University in 1984, we’d all drained our savings (in my case, my parents’) to buy the first Macintoshes available. We followed every product launch, Steve’s departure from Apple, the founding of NeXT, the Pixar purchase. Where Steve went, we, and a small legion of others – employees at NeXT, as well as software developers and a very patient Japanese investor – would follow. When Steve made his first call to my office, I figured it was my friend Ray, pulling a prank. Not all the calls were pleasant. He was remarkably loyal and supportive. Principled people are often difficult.
matclayton: To the police surveillance... Steve’s Final “One More Thing…” Steve Jobs was the ultimate showman. As such, it should be no surprise that he realized the power of following up a great performance with an encore. But unlike many musicians who treat encores as a given add-on for each show, Jobs seemed to recognize that encores are much more powerful if they’re used judiciously. The Steve Jobs encore was the “One more thing…” He didn’t use it all the time, and because of that, when he did, it would whip the audience into a frenzy. Following his passing, the question now turns to what Jobs was working on in his final days. In the weeks following his death, reports have been popping up that he was working on a few new things, perhaps even up to the day before his passing on October 5. Considering the iPhone is Apple’s key product now (at least in terms of revenue), certainly one final version revamped by Jobs himself would be a worthy final project. Jobs’ upcoming biography is the source for a lot of this new information. And then there’s the big one.
Steve Jobs and the sound of silence Steve Jobs at D8 by Asa Mathat | All Things Digital Like many of my colleagues in Silicon Valley, I was having a fantastic day today. It is crisp in the shade, warm in the sun. The first thought that ran through my head was about Steve’s health, and I thought to myself that this cannot be good. It is incredibly hard for me to write right now. And while I wish for him to have more time with his family, I am also being very selfish. Steve Jobs, the maverick who has architected one of the greatest comebacks in the history of Silicon Valley, continues to prove that he is a modern-day Howard Hughes. I have watched him from afar. Jobs (and by extension, Apple) has taught me (and I am sure others) a big lesson: If you want to change something, you have to be patient and take the long view. And then there are Steve and Apple: a leader and a company not afraid to take the long view, patiently building the way to the future envisioned for the company. Jobs is a perfect example of that.
Jon Stewart on TLC's Disappointingly Terror-Free All American Muslim Just like how Mitt Romney is a strict constitutionalist, who doesn't think it should ever be changed, except for the parts that need to be changed, like making English our national language. The fact is that all religion, just like all political or financial systems, fails the moment it leaves the page and interacts with humans. The human factor kills all, whether due to misogynistic amendment or simple personal greed. The premise behind most religion, like "no killing, stealing or other such shenanigans" are genetic to many species and a great base to build on. The problem is the building. The tower always ends up leaning one way or the other and people get dumped on. I suppose this brings me to my point. I think we should take some large measure of comfort, monkeyracing, in "the fact is that all religion, just like all political or financial systems, fails the moment it leaves the page and interacts with humans." Stark.
Quand Steve Wozniak parle de Steve Jobs Ce n'est un secret pour personne que Steve Jobs avait la réputation d'être un personnage difficile à vivre. Nombreux sont les témoignages à en faire état. Ceci dit, rares sont ceux à pouvoir vraiment permettre de faire la lumière sur le fondateur de Apple. Steve Wozniak en fait partie, il s'est d'ailleurs récemment livré au Milwaukee Business Journal. « Steve Jobs a eu différentes personnalités pendant toute la période où je l’ai connu », déclare Steve Wozniak. Malheureusement, ses relations avec les autres, et bien évidemment, ses employés, en ont souffert. « Certains de mes meilleurs amis chez Apple, les plus créatifs qui ont travaillé sur le Macintosh, la plupart d’entre eux ont affirmé qu’ils ne travailleraient plus jamais pour Steve Jobs », admet Steve Wozniak. « C’était à ce point-là. » Mais malgré son attitude exécrable, Steve Jobs avait un profond respect pour ses employés. L’interview complète est à voir en vidéo ci-dessous.
A Great User Experience: The Web Legacy of Steve Jobs Earlier today, the tech world was rocked by the sad news that Steve Jobs had died. I'd like to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, on behalf of ReadWriteWeb, for what he brought to the Web world. There will be hundreds of different tributes written by many tech publications - deservedly so, as Steve Jobs had a huge impact on many aspects of technology. In this post I want to highlight 3 main things that I'm grateful to Steve Jobs for: 1) re-defining mobile computing with the iPhone and iPad; 2) his design philosophy; 3) his leadership. Steve Jobs strived for greatness in the products his company built, which resulted in a great user experience on the Web for millions of people. Boom! Over the years, Steve Jobs had been at the helm of a number of revolutionary technology products, including the MacIntosh computer in 1984 and the iPod in 2001. At the time, Jobs described the strange new product as "three revolutionary new products" all rolled up into one device. Design Ethos: Make Great Products
Les 9 livres que Steve Jobs conseillait à tout le monde de lire Publié le 4 août 2015 dans la catégorie Lifestyle par La Rédaction Suivez Les Hommes Modernes sur Facebook Cela fera bientôt 4 ans que le fondateur d’Apple nous a quitté. Et pourtant, son influence est toujours aussi forte, sa vision toujours autant suivie. Un jour, Jobs a dit que si Apple avait été en mesure de créer des produits tels que l’iPad, c’est parce que sa société avait « toujours essayé d’être à l’intersection de la technologie et des arts libéraux ». Avant d’en arriver là, l’homme aura passé une grande partie de sa vie la tête dans les livres. Le site Business Insider a ainsi listé les 9 livres ayant le plus influencé Steve Jobs dans son travail. « Le Roi Lear » de William Shakespeare« Moby Dick » de Herman Melville« The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas » de Dylan Thomas« Remember, Ici & Maintenant ! Tous ces livres vont être disponibles sur Amazon, pour quelques euros la plupart du temps.
What Steve Meant Back Then I promise I didn't write this in advance, waiting for the appropriate moment to unleash it from the vault of pre-conceived, pre-digested stories about the deceased the way one fills in the Free Space in the middle of "N" on the Bingo card. When people would ask me, what will you write when Steve Jobs dies, I declined to answer because I didn't want to think about it. I sincerely believed if anyone could beat pancreatic cancer, it would be him. I hear the three words, "He gave us..." as a jump-starter, or what Steve Wozniak would call a "bootstrap," for sentences that precede a recitation of all the technology milestones presented to the world by Steve Jobs. Kids in garages Apple was an empowering company. I blatantly leveraged his image to jump-start my career. Steve had a moustache, so I grew one too. It was 1979. "Well, let me tell you, the two men who created this thing," my speech began, "are named Steven Jobs and Steve Wozniak." Containers for ideas You can make it work. The gauntlet