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Re: The Steve Jobs I Knew

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Post by barney54 » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 3:08 AM UTC

bambax wrote: post #10

The Gates anecdote is really neat (edited for brevity): For our fifth D conference, both Steve and Bill Gates agreed to a joint appearance. But it almost got derailed. Earlier in the day, before Gates arrived, I did a solo onstage interview with Jobs, and asked him what it was like to be a major Windows developer, since Apple’s iTunes program was by then installed on hundreds of millions of Windows PCs. He quipped: “…

This is a perfect story about Jobs. The ipod was brilliant, but iTunes is a truly terrible program. It is by far the worst program that I use on a regular basis. But the greatness of the ipod (or iphone and ipad) outweighs putting up with iTunes.

I've always wondered how Jobs could put up with iTunes being so bad. But now everyone is perfect and he obviously had a blind eye when it came to iTunes.

Re: The Steve Jobs I Knew

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Post by ethank » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 6:01 AM UTC

barney54 wrote: post #11

bambax wrote: post #10

The Gates anecdote is really neat (edited for brevity): For our fifth D conference, both Steve and Bill Gates agreed to a joint appearance. But it almost got derailed. Earlier in the day, before Gates arrived, I did a solo onstage interview with Jobs, and asked him what it was like to be a major Windows developer, since Apple’s iTunes program was by then installed on hundreds of millions of Windows PCs. He quipped: “…

This is a perfect story about Jobs. The ipod was brilliant, but iTunes is a truly terrible program. It is by far the worst program that I use on a regular basis. But the greatness of the ipod (or iphone and ipad) outweighs putting up with iTunes. I've always wondered how Jobs could put up with iTunes being so bad. But now everyone is perfect and he obviously had a blind eye when it came to iTunes.

Notice how its 10.5 with the iOS 5 betas and not 11?

Re: The Steve Jobs I Knew

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Post by ovi256 » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 11:30 AM UTC

Bartlet wrote: post #2

My favorite part: "He looked at me like I was crazy, said there’d be many, many stores, and that the company had spent a year tweaking the layout of the stores, using a mockup at a secret location. I teased him by asking if he, personally, despite his hard duties as CEO, had approved tiny details like the translucency of the glass and the color of the wood. He said he had, of course."

That made me think of humanism: as a humanism, nothing human is strange to me. Steve Jobs would be a humanist CEO. As the CEO, no detail of my company is strange to me.