Steve Jobs’s Interview with Red Herring (1996) • Hacker News Board

Re: Steve Jobs’s Interview with Red Herring (1996)

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Post by mercer » Tue, Aug 18, 2015, 7:32 PM UTC

MCRed wrote: post #17

jamespo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MS got up to a lot more than just bundling browsers

For instance, around the time this article was written, someone from Microsoft was sitting across the desk from me (this is in Seattle) and told me "you can re-engineer our product to use our technology, or we will bury you". Re-engineering would have made us microsoft windows only, and dependent on them for everything... and we would have lost all our value because it doesn't make any sense technically (the guy didn…

Could you elaborate more on what makes Google more evil in your opinion (honest question)?

Re: Steve Jobs’s Interview with Red Herring (1996)

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Post by dang » Tue, Aug 18, 2015, 11:55 PM UTC

stevehawk wrote: post #43

almightysmudge wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd suggest reading any of his biographies or watching Pirates of Silicon Valley. My problem is not with Apple at all, it's with the man himself.

No no no. Like the Steve Jobs fanboy said - you hate him because he made Apple and changed the world. You don't hate him because he treated his employees like shit. Screwed many of them out of stock options. Turned his back on his own child. Created one of the largest walled gardens in the IT world. yada yada yada. Get over your PC Master Race ideals, bro.

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Re: Steve Jobs’s Interview with Red Herring (1996)

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Post by MCRed » Sat, Aug 22, 2015, 10:41 PM UTC

MCRed wrote: post #23

mmphosis wrote: post #12

It's 1996 and they're tossing around the term "apps."

STEVE JOBS is using the term apps.

That this factual comment is at -1 on Hacker News is my proudest achievement. No more proof of the anti-intellectualism of this site is needed.

I'm pretty much done wasting time here wading thru 20 year olds mindlessly regurgitating cargo cultism.