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Steve Jobs Insult Response (1997) [video]

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Re: Steve Jobs Insult Response (1997) [video]

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Post by CharlesW »

That 10 second pause before he responds — 25 seconds if you don't count the reference to the famous quote, which buys him a bit more time — is amazing.

What may be less well understood by people who weren't there is that he's addressing Apple employees just as much as he is Apple developers. Many Apple employees had the same question. [Source: Was at Apple at the time.]

"You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to try to sell it." — Steve Jobs

Re: Steve Jobs Insult Response (1997) [video]

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Post by mturmon »

Such a great clip.

I’ve been on both sides of that one. Plenty of times where I’m trying to get some advanced tech into a given component, and the manager says No, it’ll increase our risk. “But this tech will enable advanced features A, B, and C.” And the reply: “We don’t need to have A, B, or C … we need the product to deliver on our earlier promise of the baseline capability.”

And a few times when I’m on the other side, shutting someone else down. Never as clearly or succinctly as this, of course. Definitely makes me feel like a turncoat in the tug of war between technologists and product people.

Re: Steve Jobs Insult Response (1997) [video]

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Post by dannyobrien »

emmanueloga_ wrote: post #8
jebronie wrote: post #3

staged, I assume

honestly, staging the question is something I can see Steve Jobs doing. Does anybody know who the guy that asked the question is?

Here's one report about who it was: https://www.quora.com/History-of-Apple-Inc-Whos-the-guy-who-...
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