Slashdot Mirror
An Insider's Take on Steve Jobs
Jerry Rivers writes "Business Week has an interesting, if short, interview with Edgar Woolard Jr., the man who brought Jobs back to Apple in the dark days of 1996. "Old money" Woolard offers some interesting insights into the man behind the iMac and the iPod, including his take on Jobs' 'five special characteristics' that make him the success that he is."
Hey - Isn't it time for that G5 icon to change? :)
So, Bill Gates dies, and goes to Heaven, and he meets up with Saint Peter, and says "Hey, it's Bill, I'm just going to go on in." And Saint Peter says, "Sorry Bill, everyone is equal here. You need to stand in line like everyone else."
Begrudgingly, Bill Gates walks to the end of the enormous line, but as he's waiting to get into Heaven, a limo drives up, and there in the limo is Steve Jobs! Now, Bill Gates is furious, so he walks up to Saint Peter and complains, "Hey! I thought you said everyone was equal here! But, I just saw Steve Jobs, yeah, Steve Jobs roll with a limo!"
Saint Peter laughs, and responds, "Oh no, that wasn't Steve Jobs. That was God, he only thinks he's Steve Jobs."
I am unamerican, and proud of it!
how much bigger his manhood is over Steve Jobs
"If Steve has a good relationship with you, there's nobody better in the world to work with. He trusts you, and he listens, and he bounces his ideas off you. But if he doesn't trust you, it doesn't work."
I thought he was talking about Balmer but it says ideas, not chairs.
to say Steve Jobs is an overpaid CEO is to be a fucking moron.
;-)
Speaking as a shareholder, I want to see what happens if the board gives him two airplanes!
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Bono?
Speaking as a shareholder, I want to see what happens if the board gives him two airplanes! ;-)
Speaking as a US citizen, I want to see what happens if Congress gives him a space shuttle.
Oh, that's easy. Apple would take the concept of the space shuttle, which has been around for decades but has never really lived up to people's hopes for it. Jon Ive and his minions would be set loose on it, and a few months later, the iShuttle would be announced. It'd do basically the same stuff as the regular shuttle, and would be missing a few features that people were used to (but probably didn't really need) here and there. But it'd be very easy to control, stylish, and unlike the current one, wouldn't crash. (*rimshot*) Then Apple would have Taiwanese OEMs crank out gazillions of them until every two-bit nation had them, gradually bringing the prices down (but keeping prices up on the non-reusable, proprietary rocket boosters). A few years later, with sales soaring (ha ha), Jobs would buy the moon, not knowing what else to do with all that money, and have terraformers take a notch out of one side and pile it on the pole to form an Apple logo...
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
I've been on the Apple campus once. I was sent to do a demo for, IIRC, the Final Cut group in 'the Piano Bar' or room, IIRC. We had a Genelec surround system sent directly to our contact at Apple and I loaded this on a huge cart along with other hardware and my Warr Guitar strapped to my back. We 'booked' the room so we were sure it would be abandoned, including the allocated setup time. So, I come crashing into the room with the cart *KERBLAM* and I see a group of five people talking at a table in the back. Our apple contact says, "We should, uh, get out of here." I shrug and follow him out. He and the other guy leave to go do something and I'm sitting outside the piano room by myself. Moments later four, ashen Apple employees scurry out of the room followed by a scruffy unshaven fellow with torn jeans. He surveys the outside area, and, like a missile locking on to a strong heat signature, zeros in on me and walks towards me, the person who burst in like a herd of buffalo on his private meeting. He holds out his hand and says, "Hi. I'm Steve." I owned a 128K Mac in 1984. Before that, the obligatory Apple //s and what not. What I do today was shaped largely by Apple, and what this person did. Heck, I started writing music by dragging notes onto a screen with a program called MusicWorks - it isn't hyperbole to say my very interest in music started with the Macintosh, and I'm staring Steve Jobs in the face.
Being a fairly eloquent person, I summon up the response: "Hey."
Smooth.
I don't remember if I shook his hand or not. In fact, I really don't remember anything beyond saying 'hey'
That only goes to prove the point. Gates didn't pay any money to AOL Time Warner to put him on the cover of Time . . . and yes, it cost him easily a hundred million bucks. Which is just what jcr said it was worth.