Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
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Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#2There's also one choice moment before this point where a developer is asking what Apple can do about getting beat up in the press and the stockmarket.
For emphasis, in December of 1997 AAPL hit an 11-year low of $3.53 (split adjusted). Today, mainstream media eats out of Steve Jobs' hand and their stock price is, as I type this, $332.
Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#3Great find... If you continue listening to Steve ramble on about the what we now call "the Cloud", you can hear him mention hardware-thin/software-thick clients, eg. the iPhone and the iPad.
I wonder what held him back from achieving that vision is the first place. AFAICS, Apple is now playing catch-up to Google and Amazon in the cloud computing space.
Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#4Great find... If you continue listening to Steve ramble on about the what we now call "the Cloud", you can hear him mention hardware-thin/software-thick clients, eg. the iPhone and the iPad. I wonder what held him back from achieving that vision is the first place. AFAICS, Apple is now playing catch-up to Google and Amazon in the cloud computing space.
Doing it themselves and doing it right is my guess.
Just look at Sony for an example of rushing into doing something yourself (PSN.)
Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#5A true visionary.
Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#6There's also one choice moment before this point where a developer is asking what Apple can do about getting beat up in the press and the stockmarket. For emphasis, in December of 1997 AAPL hit an 11-year low of $3.53 (split adjusted). Today, mainstream media eats out of Steve Jobs' hand and their stock price is, as I type this, $332.
Yeah, he says something like:
"You should buy stock... it is what I have done"
Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#7Great find... If you continue listening to Steve ramble on about the what we now call "the Cloud", you can hear him mention hardware-thin/software-thick clients, eg. the iPhone and the iPad. I wonder what held him back from achieving that vision is the first place. AFAICS, Apple is now playing catch-up to Google and Amazon in the cloud computing space.
Doing it themselves and doing it right is my guess. Just look at Sony for an example of rushing into doing something yourself (PSN.)
Exactly this, I think most would agree that Apple attempts to either do it right or not at all.
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#8This was Sun Microsystems' vision of computing in 1982, 15 years earlier.
Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#9A coworker of mine worked with Eric Schmidt when he was at Novell. He was talking about the cloud back then. Now his vision is coming alive with Chrome OS.
Re: Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
#10Great find... If you continue listening to Steve ramble on about the what we now call "the Cloud", you can hear him mention hardware-thin/software-thick clients, eg. the iPhone and the iPad. I wonder what held him back from achieving that vision is the first place. AFAICS, Apple is now playing catch-up to Google and Amazon in the cloud computing space.
What held them back? Probably two things:
1. They only had the Mac platform (and non-connected iPods). Can you change the world with a 5% market share?
2. They wanted to charge for it.
Now, they could have done this a couple of years ago after they conquered #1, but they were still hung up on point #2, and just tried to make a better pay service.