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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
(I agree with Jobs, btw.)
sulli
RTFJ.
Who, Voldemort?
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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.
'It think it sucks!'
I'm impressed. I didn't realize the thing was both sentient, and self-loathing.
You're new here, aren't you?
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Hey, is sluggy ob around here or not?
Sig:Why copyright isn't a fundamental human right
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).
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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
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.
...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
That BETTER get a +5 Funny.
Any sufficiently well-organized Government is indistinguishable from bullshit.
His daughter pushed him.
Any sufficiently well-organized Government is indistinguishable from bullshit.
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.
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...
We all stand on the shoulders of giants.
... and Bezos has the patent on shoulder pads.
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.