What it's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs
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What it's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs
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#2Two things that stood-out:
>"Many years later, when NeXT acquired Apple for negative -$400M"
and
>"We would "throw them into the cauldron", and stir it, and soon nobody remembered exactly whose ideas were which. This let us make a great soup, a great potion, without worrying about who had what idea. This was critically important, in retrospect, to decouple the CEO from the ideas."
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#3"I think it was October or November of 1998" ..
"The idea of "personal digital media" was born." .. "Before then, very vew people had any personal photos, or music, or home movies on their computers."
Wasn't this the same time digital cameras and relevant sized mass storage at affordable prices started to become common place?
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#4"I think it was October or November of 1998" .. "The idea of "personal digital media" was born." .. "Before then, very vew people had any personal photos, or music, or home movies on their computers." Wasn't this the same time digital cameras and relevant sized mass storage at affordable prices started to become common place?
No. Digital cameras became affordable nearer 2001-2002.
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#5Between this and the Safari story, I'm struck at just how deep Apple's internal secrecy ethos runs. The idea that there is that level of dedication to keeping a project hidden, not just from outsiders, but from almost the entire rest of the company just blows my mind.
It certainly explains how they're able to keep projects secret for as long as they do.
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#6So Apple basically was Steve Jobs. Time to ditch some stock.
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#7"I think it was October or November of 1998" .. "The idea of "personal digital media" was born." .. "Before then, very vew people had any personal photos, or music, or home movies on their computers." Wasn't this the same time digital cameras and relevant sized mass storage at affordable prices started to become common place?
I'm pretty sure that at that time I had tons of music (using winamp) and photos on my computer (scanning was the way at that time).
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#8"I think it was October or November of 1998" .. "The idea of "personal digital media" was born." .. "Before then, very vew people had any personal photos, or music, or home movies on their computers." Wasn't this the same time digital cameras and relevant sized mass storage at affordable prices started to become common place?
I don't think digital cameras were particularly affordable at this time. My digital camera was $600, purchased in 1997 or 1998.
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#9"I think it was October or November of 1998" .. "The idea of "personal digital media" was born." .. "Before then, very vew people had any personal photos, or music, or home movies on their computers." Wasn't this the same time digital cameras and relevant sized mass storage at affordable prices started to become common place?
I'm pretty sure that at that time I had tons of music (using winamp) and photos on my computer (scanning was the way at that time).
you're one of the 'very few' then. As was I.
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#10"I think it was October or November of 1998" .. "The idea of "personal digital media" was born." .. "Before then, very vew people had any personal photos, or music, or home movies on their computers." Wasn't this the same time digital cameras and relevant sized mass storage at affordable prices started to become common place?
A few of my schools had Apple QuickTake[1] cameras around 1995-6. Not quite 'personal' or 'affordable', and it was a line that Jobs cancelled when he returned to the company, but the pins were being set up.