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Behind a Steve Jobs Keynote
Shree writes "The Guardian has an article about what it takes to prepare that smooth Steve Jobs-style keynote. When Steve launches iPhoto and says 'here we have 5000 or so photos', he actually means here we have 5000 or so carefully picked photos ... " From the article: "Objectively, Apple Computer is a mid-sized company with a tiny share of its primary market. Apple Macintoshes are only rarely seen in corporate environments, and most software companies don't even offer Apple-compatible versions of their products. To put it another way, Apple is just bit larger than Cadbury-Schweppes and about the same size as Nike or Marks and Spencer in terms of annual sales. Such comparisons come up short in trying to describe Apple's place in the world of business, because they leave out a key factor: Steve Jobs."
of Steve Jobs every day when I fire up AmaRok or Juk, and realize I can't listen to the 200+ songs I've purchased through I-Tunes because of his DRM practices. Let's not forget the 800+ songs I ripped from CD using I-Tunes (for Win XP). I appreciate Steve's ability to think outside of the box and innovate (instead of follow), but I seriously think that he is a wanna-be Gates.
Jobs is a marketer, a schemer, a salesman. Jobs didn't really "collaborate" on anything with Woz so much as he rode him like a skilled horse to success. Look at the early Apple stuff: every bit of technical genius you see is from Woz alone. Really, Jobs isn't fit to polish Woz's shoes. The Nolan Bushnell/Breakout story is the classic example.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
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i speak for myself and those who like what i say.
Ok ok... lets rephrase parent:
And like he foresaw, OSX is now at the nexus of modern computing. I mean, everyone here has an OSX machine, and when was the last time you saw a non-osx computer in an office?
Apple products are like Puma products, overpriced. There are a lot of better products which cost less on the market. I have used OSX and I do not see the benefits, for me it is a resource munching OS.
the iPod is again an overprized gizmo, you can find great portable players which play MORE formats (ogg for example) and which are not as overpriced as iPod.
Of course I will be moded down but unlike all the slashdot sheep-teenager with mod points I do enjoy expressing my opinion.
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...and it's not even written by Jack Schofield.
Pass the sick bag, Alice.
"When I see MS do something stupid I don't generally blame Bill Gates. I mean, the day to day vulnerabilities, the crappy design, the shoddy interfaces, none of that can really be attributed (in my understanding) to Bill."
In my opinion, Bill Gates is to be blamed. Look at the vulnerabilities and bad design more carefully and you will see that they are a result of planning. They are not accidents. They are the result of Bill making money the center of his whole life. They are the result of his sneaky aggressive behavior.
The vulnerabilities and extremely bad design are the result of not letting Microsoft programmers finish their jobs. The vulnerabilities and extremely bad design make Microsoft more money. For example, most businesses would have been happy to remain with Windows 98, but Windows 98 often corrupted its big central configuration file called the registry. Windows 98 would literally self-destruct.
Windows 98 regularly crashed because operating system resources like something called GDI and others were allowed a maximum of 128K of memory. 128K! That limitation was easily fixable, but it wasn't fixed.
Windows 98 self-destruction made Bill Gates more money because he is exploiting his virtual monopoly. Businesses paid a huge amount to buy another operating system from Microsoft, Windows XP.
Note that Bill Gates suffers from depression. This is exactly what you would expect of a man who has spent his entire adult life acting out sneaky aggression.
The reason Apple does so well under Steve Jobs is because Steve Jobs is idealistic, an unusual characteristic for a CEO. Remember, however, that Steve Jobs is also a monumentally abusive person, and suffers enormously because of that. Mr. Jobs just often doesn't let his abusiveness be in the way of his idealism.
Apple does well partly because Microsoft is not interested in doing well. Microsoft is "maximizing shareholder value" by delaying delivering good products so that customers will always have a reason to buy the next version.
You're a fucking moron.