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Steve Jobs And Jeff Bezos Meet The Segway
deadwood writes "Ever wanted to know what Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos really thought about the Segway the first time he saw it? At the Harvard Business School site, there's an excerpt from the new book 'Code Name Ginger', giving a recounting of the Apple and Amazon bosses' first impressions of the device. Steve Jobs' gut reaction, quoted in the article: 'I think it sucks!'"
Dean Kamen took a big chance inviting Jeff Bezos, he's lucky Bezos didn't run out and try to patent the idea.
Mike
Let's hope they rode it better than you-know-who.
The coolest voice ever.
(I agree with Jobs, btw.)
sulli
RTFJ.
A close friend of Jobs overheard him say:
"This is just like a Windows PC. It moves rather slowly, and at any moment you might get dumped off"
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Yeah, I would imagine after the slap on the wrist M$ got, Steve Jobs thinks he sucks too.
Who are you? The new #2 Who is #1? You are #617565. I am not a number, I am a free man! Muhahaha.
'It think it sucks!'
I'm impressed. I didn't realize the thing was both sentient, and self-loathing.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030 613/168/4ds7k.html 0 612/170/4dnhg.html
:)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/03
I hear those things are a bitch to ride.
You're new here, aren't you?
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
AP Wire writes -
"Today Amazon announced it was going to start litigation against the makers of segway for infringing on their 'One Lean' technology." Jeff Bezos is quoated as saying, "We've worked hard to innovate with our special leaning technology. This technology allows our customers to lean towards the screens to initate a purchase. We feel the segway is attempting to benefit from our hard work"
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
I agreecompletely...
While I respect his business acumen and ability to get his way, I don't think I'd be able to handle him as a friend, or even a business associate.
What I sincerely hope is that his management style doesn't get mirrored by too many people. There are many ways to skin a cat, but I think Steve Jobs would be one of the few people who could make a cat feel so small that its skin just fell off.
Mr. Jobs doesn't like it because it's not "iSegway". It needs to have nice shapely plastic bumpers that are see-through, so you can see the nice engine doing it's thing. And the gyros need to light up when they work. When the iSegway stops it also needs to play a very warm "DING" tune, something that's fuzzy and nice like "You've Got Mail", but maybe more like "You've just stopped".
It's all about looks, people.
Never noticed this happening before.. There is a typo on the article synapsis on the front page, but not on the article page itself (ie if you click Read More).
:-\
From the front page:
Steve Jobs' gut reaction, quoted in the article: 'It think it sucks!'"
From the article page:
Steve Jobs' gut reaction, quoted in the article: 'I think it sucks!'"
Is someone really manually retyping these twice?
I hope, if so, that Slashdot has at least employed a Cadre of Elite Geese to do this... Oh yea it says right here that they have.
THE MAGIC WORDS ARE SQUEAMISH OSSIFRAGE
After a while, Steve gets up and starts to look around. He looks at the framed dollar bill on the wall and notes that the bar opened in 1987 (long after his Macintosh computer came out.
He goes over to the windows, and verifies that they can be opened and closed, and also minimized (with the use of shades). Next, he looks behind a table and finds a mouse. It is only after he finds the trashcan behind the bar that he decides to sue the bar owner for infringment of his GUI patents.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Jeff Bezos tries to patent a method of riding the segway where the rider does not fall off.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
hmmmm, well, you know what they say. If you can reach just one person then it was worth it. Well, here is the one person in the world who is satisfied with the Segway. Kamen can die happy now
YOU SUCK BALLS!
I respect his opinions, but the man needs some serious lessons in humility and respect for others.
Strangely, this is exactly the way I feel about RMS. What is it about technology and arrogant pricks?
Toronto-area transit rider? Rate your ride.
"Really, you should get "well-informed" from something else than Fox Propaganda."
Fox News is the most factual, being centrist and concerned with accuracy. It is but one of many sources of information (along with BBC, NPR, AlJazeera, CNN, Deutsche-Welle), but it is one of the most accurate.
"They were for production of hydrogen for balloons."
Yes, I know. The Saddam Zeppelin Program.
...a skinny Marvin, the depressed andriod?
Do not read this sig.
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Jobs: Will it come with Firewire?
Dean: Um... Firewire? Why would it--?
Jobs: Will it come with Firewire? Will it?
Dean: I don't understand what you're--
Jobs: You really ought to license Firewire from us and slap a logo on this thing and that's all there is to it.
Dean: But what on earth would people want--?
Jobs: Why would they not want the the most reliable, insanely fast connectivity solution built in to this revolutionary device? How will they sync their Palms and iPods to this? Have you thought about that?
Dean: That's ridiculous. I don't--
Jobs: Okay. Nevermind. This sucks.
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--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."
This guy lives in Seattle. But in every picture on the web site he's poking around in nice, sunny, dry weather. Maybe Jobs left his reality distortion field in the meeting and this guy picked it up and flipped it to maximum stun?
Thanks Steve! Now I have a whole new goal for when I present my next project pitch to the captains and commanders I work with!
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Seriously, this guy pops up everytime there's a segway article.
How much do they pay you? Please tell me they pay you.
-- taking over the world, we are.
"Only a moron could fall off a segway."
--jeff++
ipv6 is my vpn
That BETTER get a +5 Funny.
Any sufficiently well-organized Government is indistinguishable from bullshit.
Sorry, my coffee just went down the wrong way.
You had a coffee enema?
If it sucked, shouldn't the code name have been Monica instead of Ginger?
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
His daughter pushed him.
Any sufficiently well-organized Government is indistinguishable from bullshit.
This is supposed to be a new site
Nah, it's been arround for 5 years
Meet the Megway
One out of two RICH geeks didn't like it, so our hatred toward segway is, what, justified?
My mind is revolting against itself! Who or what am I supposed to like?
P.S. Please, someone, tell me what I can do on a Segway that I cannot do on a bicycle.
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The cat's been let out of the bag and people are going to buy a book about the development of a scooter?
.25 Mach. Well, not me really, but a ton of other people did:)
This product has been the biggest letdown since the year 2000. I waited, white-knuckled and anxious, for way too long in hopes that I'd be able to zip across the countryside 40 feet in the air and at
The segway is an excellent example of what happens when you don't give out enough details concerning a product and act in extreme secrecy all to protect your whiz-bang idea of a $5000 scooter.....or SCO unix source code...
"What the fuck do you expect, that cities will be built around this device?!"
- Steve Jobs
We all stand on the shoulders of giants.
... and Bezos has the patent on shoulder pads.
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
Segways don't kill people, PEOPLE with Segways kill people!.....yeah....
yep.
you can email me, call me, look at my personal journal of technology or my segway owner journal. i put it all out there to share with folks good and bad, have at it. insult me, poke me, it's all fine. i write books about mobile devices and rich media, i work for the company that did bmwfilms, i live in seattle, wa. i use a segway but do not work for them in any way or get paid to do anything involving the segway, never have. i love reading slashdot, it's been my home page for years, i subscribe to support them, i have an imac, an ipod, xp machines, a linux box, nokia 3650, a pocket pc phone...and a bunch of other devices i write programs for or write articles about.
i'm a nerd.
cheers,
pt
Maybe the full quote was...
"Cities will be built around this device with restrooms on every corner so that you don't have to shit your pants when you see one go by."
By reading this sig, you agree to the terms of my sig license.
Perhaps if you made the occasional post regarding Microsoft's terrible plague on society or how your children couldn't eat solid foods until you discovered Linux your posts would carry more influence and credibility. Or you could put up a website detailing how you case-modded your Seqway to include transparent panels and flashing neon lights. Your choice.
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mcp.kaaos
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
Supposedly Jobs parks his Jag diagonally across multiple spaces when he drives to Apple. (In some tellings of the story, he regularly blocks handicap spots.)
As the story goes, one day he returns to his car to find a note on it: Park Different
This story may not be true, but if it isn't, it SHOULD be.