Interesting. And a Bloomberg Businessweek article has Scott Forstall as Jobs' heir-apparent at Apple.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/scott-forstall-the-sorc...
Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
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Re: Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
This applies to Silicon Valley in general, I think. We take risks, we bet on long shots, we try to serve markets with zero demand and squeeze blood from stones. We spend money like it was just paper, and when we don't have money we give our time away for free working on things we believe in. According to traditional business management practices, no startup should last more than a couple of months. And most don't. An…
I've added this to my snippet's file. Very well written.
Apologies for not adding to the discussion either, but I would love if gte910h would be willing to share this file on pastebin.
Re: Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
#143Where did the abbreviation "Jony" come from? It's Jonny.
Straight out of a keynote: http://technology.automated.it/wp-content/uploads/HLIC/b08b7...
Re: Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
#144By comparison, John Lasseter has more power than anyone at Pixar. I think the situation could be similar. Now, sure, he has to commit to budgets and timeframes but if he really wants something you have to figure it's going to happen. And of course, he's not the top manager, the CEO equivalent in charge of the studio itself — Ed Catmull is. And yes, everything creative gets picked apart by other directors so it's not…
Loved the Quara answer! Cheers, Zach!
Re: Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
This applies to Silicon Valley in general, I think. We take risks, we bet on long shots, we try to serve markets with zero demand and squeeze blood from stones. We spend money like it was just paper, and when we don't have money we give our time away for free working on things we believe in. According to traditional business management practices, no startup should last more than a couple of months. And most don't. An…
I've added this to my snippet's file. Very well written.
I'm flattered. Feel free to redistribute it as much as you like; in a country that's struggling just to pay the bills, I feel like we should be talking about this a lot louder.
Re: Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could take everything you just said and apply it to Sony in 1980. Then their founder, Akio Morita, retired with poor health and they diversified into lots of sensible business decisions about owning studios Then some little computer company in California moved in on their territory and began making beautiful, simple, well made upmarket products.
Might I just add, I am not your typical fan boy for Apple. Quite the opposite actually. I am a Microsoft geek at heart, learnt basic when I was 13 and loved them since. They can do minimal wrong in my eyes (except for windows ME). I appreciate Apple in a completely different way, I think how they have created their following in nothing short of amazing. The spot a market potential and they make it work, really well.…
The iTunes Store came with the original iPod, and it was an integral part of Apple's strategy.
You probably meant the App Store, which wasn't on the very first iPhone and was, in fact, a bit of a lucky strike. Jobs didn't want anyone installing anything on the phone (classic Apple control-freakery at its finest), so he insisted for months after launch that extensibility would come exclusively from sandboxed web-applications. Eventually they did release a SDK and establish a process to publish apps, but only after encountering overwhelming demand.
Re: Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
#147Interestingly enough, there is a quote from the Jobs book, from Ive, that was tweeted by Bianca Bosker, who works at the Huffington Post: https://twitter.com/bbosker/status/127357233632788480 "Jony Ive:'I pay maniacal attention to where an idea comes from...so it hurts when [Jobs] takes credit for one of my designs'" As much as Jobs considered Ive a 'spiritual partner' there was still a power play that existed betwee…
It's been said of Steve, at least in the early years, that if you wanted to know what Steve thought of an idea of yours, you would tell Steve your idea, he would tell you "that's shit" and come up with half a dozen reasons why your idea is shit, then he'd go off an meditate. If Steve comes back as says "hey everyone, I just had this great idea" then he liked your idea.
Re: Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
#148Re: Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Might I just add, I am not your typical fan boy for Apple. Quite the opposite actually. I am a Microsoft geek at heart, learnt basic when I was 13 and loved them since. They can do minimal wrong in my eyes (except for windows ME). I appreciate Apple in a completely different way, I think how they have created their following in nothing short of amazing. The spot a market potential and they make it work, really well.…
The iTunes Store came with the original iPod, and it was an integral part of Apple's strategy. You probably meant the App Store, which wasn't on the very first iPhone and was, in fact, a bit of a lucky strike. Jobs didn't want anyone installing anything on the phone (classic Apple control-freakery at its finest), so he insisted for months after launch that extensibility would come exclusively from sandboxed web-appli…
I did mean the AppStore, thanks for califying!
Re: Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
#150Jony Ive? Yet another man behind the man.