Steve Jobs' Grand Vision

ejungle writes "The Toronto Star has an excellent article on Steve Jobs and his increasingly interesting role as head of both Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios. The article goes into the market pressures surrounding both companies, and goes a long way to explain their recent moves."

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Jobs is a hypocrite

[DAldredge]

Jobs is a hypocrite.

From a google search: "The exercise will be lost on the children of Apple founder Steve Jobs, however. He wisely doesn't allow his kids to watch TV, or drink sickly sodas, advocating Odwalla's excellent fruit juices instead. Do as he does, not as he says, we suggest"

Re:Why?

[Ma�djeurtam]

That's not Jobs' fault. That's Sculley's, and that's the dispute that caused Steve to leave Apple. Steve and Steve started Apple to make computers For the Rest of Us. Computers that people could use; not room-size boxes hidden away in an industrial building.

Sculley had a vision of using Apple's superior technology to make products with high margins and turn Apple into a billion dollar company. And he did. And he gave up marketshare for that.

Jobs came back in 1997, that's 7 years ago. Sculley quit in 93. Eleven years. 7 years, in computer time, is soooo long. Where are my unexpensive Macs?

Re:Why did Pixar split with Disney?

[/dev/trash]

Don't misundersatnd me, but fuck Walt. This isn't 1956, anymore. How many Steamboat Willie's can you have? Cultures evolve.

Reduced tax on dividends.

[demonic-halo]

Don't you just love our capitalist world. The poor whine and complain to the goverment for them to provide services that they fail to provide for themselves. Then the rich gets taxed. Then the goverment then finds a way to spend more money than it has, and has an excuse to tax the poor and middle class as well.

Now with a recession, a tax break on dividends and capital gains are given to "stimulate economic growth". So now the rich can just transfer their entire income into dividends and capital gains and say, "Ha ha, the middle class are such suckers."

When I get to the top, I'll probably do the same and start the whole cycle of abuse again. =)

Re:Reduced tax on dividends.

[salesgeek]

"Ha ha, the middle class are such suckers."

That's why I cringe when I hear phrases like "raise taxes on the rich" and "redistribution of wealth" and other such non-existent concepts. Class warfaree died a long time ago. It wasn't the rich or poor that won. The capitalists did.

IDC, Gartner and other scum

[theolein]

In the article the analyst sleaze peddler whores, IDC and Gartner, talk as if they expect Apple, Jobs and Pixar to collapse any day now, and as if they are still dumb fucking struck that Apple hasn't gone under in the face of Bill G's $$$$.

I AM a Mac fan, I admit it without any hesitation, but I don't cut Apple any slack. But what drives me to rage is that these fucking dick sucking marketing whore sluts from these so called analyst companies still get quoted as if any piece of the shit they had to say had any relevance in the real fucking world.

"Apple's ipod will feel heat from Dell, MS etc in the future", "Pixar will anger Hollywood". Jesus, what do these stupids fucks have against Apple anyway? They were prophecising Apple's death back in 1997, and they are so fucking greedy for Bill G's $$$ and so fucking lazy to do some actual marketing research that they're still doing it today.

Stupid fucks were also as responsible as anyone for the crash of the dotcom fuckout, still praising dead dotbombs after the companies had already gone tits up.

I really have it in for those fucks today: Was it a part of their company rationalisation and down sizing to cut out the actual research in their companies or have they never fucking bothered anyway.

FUCK THEM!