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Steve Jobs' Not-So-Minimalist Home Office

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Re: Steve Jobs' Not-So-Minimalist Home Office

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Post by chunkbot »

I'd like to see http://steve.jobs.usesthis.com/ (note: link doesn't work).

Anyone know how to get The Setup (usesthis) an interview with Steve Jobs?

The About page evens says: "Despite appearances, the site is not actually sponsored by Apple - people just seem to like using their tools. We're a fan, too."

Re: Steve Jobs' Not-So-Minimalist Home Office

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Post by GHFigs »

I don't know who this Jobs character is, but he obviously doesn't know many of the 24 principles of maximum productivity or the 37 ways to unleash creative potential. He should probably spend more time reading articles about how to zen-up his workspace for maximum focus if he wants to get anything done. It doesn't even look like he owns a Moleskine! How does he do mind-maps!? I mean seriously, Steve, how do you expect to get Twitter followers with that cluttered desk?

Re: Steve Jobs' Not-So-Minimalist Home Office

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Post by msbarnett »

jon_hendry wrote: post #19
Timothee wrote: post #8

Actually his house, as presented on allaboutstevejobs.com, is very rustic and far away from Apple's clean industrial design. I'm actually surprised to find that kind of home in Palo Alto: I'd expect this in Normandy, not around here :) From that website too: the last picture of this set http://allaboutstevejobs.com/pics/places/paloalto/paloalto.h... shows that his home office hasn't changed much in many many years ba…

FWIW, I expect he was running OpenStep on that laptop. Supposedly he kept using OpenStep on an Intel laptop after he returned to Apple. I suppose he switched once OS X was running on PowerBooks.

I seem to recall that the rumor was he only ran OpenStep until 10.2 or 10.3. Before that OS X had been pretty rough around the edges, and kind of slow on portable hardware.

There may have been some specific functionality he was missing too.

Re: Steve Jobs' Not-So-Minimalist Home Office

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Post by jon_hendry »

msbarnett wrote: post #26
jon_hendry wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, I expect he was running OpenStep on that laptop. Supposedly he kept using OpenStep on an Intel laptop after he returned to Apple. I suppose he switched once OS X was running on PowerBooks.

I seem to recall that the rumor was he only ran OpenStep until 10.2 or 10.3. Before that OS X had been pretty rough around the edges, and kind of slow on portable hardware. There may have been some specific functionality he was missing too.

Probably he waited for Keynote to be available, and had been using Concurrence on Openstep.

Re: Steve Jobs' Not-So-Minimalist Home Office

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Post by wmf »

Timothee wrote: post #8

Actually his house, as presented on allaboutstevejobs.com, is very rustic and far away from Apple's clean industrial design. I'm actually surprised to find that kind of home in Palo Alto: I'd expect this in Normandy, not around here :) From that website too: the last picture of this set http://allaboutstevejobs.com/pics/places/paloalto/paloalto.h... shows that his home office hasn't changed much in many many years ba…

Jobs is only living in Palo Alto "temporarily" until he can tear down the Jackling house in Woodside and build anew on that property.
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