A Look Back At the Career of Steve Jobs

Zothecula writes with a rather extensive piece in Gizmag about Steve Jobs's various business endeavors. From the article: "Revered by many, hated by some, but respected by most, the indisputable fact remains that Steve Jobs is the most successful business leader of his generation and quite possibly of all time. The numbers are impressive in themselves but the most remarkable aspect of his success is how it was achieved. Though he remains at Apple, the end of his tenure as CEO is the end of an era and an opportunity to try and grasp just exactly what it is he did and what lessons there are for all of us 'trying to make a dent in the universe.'"

Comments

Re:Nah. Let's be serious

[khallow]

Wow, you should really get laid or something.

Are you offering to help? Else it's something like telling a burning man, "You really ought to put that out."

Re:iPod was a side project

[PopeRatzo]

Um, NO. It was a standard firewire connector on both ends. http://media.techeblog.com/elephant//ul/23125-450x-r_5.jpg [techeblog.com] I know, because I owned one. And, at first the filesystem was NOT obfuscated, to boot. the filenames were merely truncated, not turned into random four-letter filenames like it did later on.

So you mean they added the proprietary connector and obfuscated filesystem as a value-added feature later on?

I see...

Re:Vision

[lennier]

As a commenter last week put it, he set out to make a dent in the universe, and actually did it.

And now we have to pay the LHC folks to get the universe repaired. Seriously, Steve, you couldn't even back it out of the local manifold coordinate chart without scraping the Magellenic Cloud on a superstring?

Re:iPod was a side project

[BasilBrush]

The connector doesn't 'HAVE' to support video out. A second connector could have been added for that.

Yes you're right. They could have followed your idea and made the device worse.