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Cringely's Lost Jobs Interview: Coming To a Theater Near You
A few weeks ago, Robert X. Cringely revealed that a long-lost, hour-long interview he conducted of Steve Jobs in 1995 had been found. Now, it seems the lost tape has found its calling: the movies. Says the linked Economic Times story: "The interview will be shown at Landmark theaters in 19 cities around the country beginning Nov 16."
All this news about Steve Jobs is getting rather boring and repetitive.
Apple stores show it in solo booths with tissue dispensers
At first I thought, that this Cringely guy was applying for a job at 1995, but lost.
Then the Job was named Steve, so maybe Steve Jobs was applying for a job with Cringely. Or the other way around. That would have been fun. But why would someone tape that?
In the end I guess it is just a plain old normal Interview... zzzZZzzz
If you read the posts about it, apparently he wants money to put his kids through college. Maybe he missed the part about how Steve Jobs didn't finish college?
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Just let the guy rest in peace. Everyone needs to move on.
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What's wrong with making money off Jobs' death? Apple made a ton, and so did his biographer. Apple even timed the release of the iPhone to it to maximize exposure (and profits).
What's wrong with making money off Jobs' death? Apple made a ton, and so did his biographer. Apple even timed the release of the iPhone to it to maximize exposure (and profits).
Wow, you came so close to making a somewhat rational post ... then you had to toss it all away with the Apple timed the release of the iPhone thing.
"rest in peace"... Why do people keep saying that? Are the dead really disturbed when the living discuss them? Is this how the zombie apocalypse starts, when the deceased decide that they've had enough of being disturbed and rise up just to shut us all up?
Sort of. When the number of [name redacted for soon to be obvious reasons] articles/posts exceed the number of iDevices in the world he will rise. So we can either (1) leave him alone or (2) buy more iDevices. Your choice.
Any cinema of repute would refuse to show material sourced from a VHS.
Now, why does that South Park episode suddenly spring to mind?
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I just wish there were stories that put his innovation into perspective: he didn't do anything other than latch onto others creations and sell it.
Steve Jobs was nothing more than a salesmen. A very good salesmen, but a salesmen never the less. True innovators usually go unnoticed because they're not good at self promotion and sales - usually.
If he were to have settled somewhere else other than Silicon Valley, he would probably have a successful used car dealership or would have been a mortgage broker that contributed to this past real estate meltdown. Or maybe a timeshare salesmen. You know he could have sold ski resort timeshares in the South West desert.
This is how a religion starts.
... it's not like it matters now what happens with the 4S. At least not in Germany
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Cringely reached his peak during the making of "Triumph of the Nerds" and the follow up series "Nerds 2.0.1". They were both some of the best historical documentaries ever done on the PC and Internet revolutions. Since then he has failed to deliver on subsequent projects.
Here's hoping there is one more great documentary series left in the old Cringe!
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He (or his colleague) _just_ found the tape two days after Jobs died. :)
What a coincidence!
If only we had a way to distribute audiovisual files to people. Oh well, maybe in the 21st century.
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The interview has been missing for years. Nobody even cared about it.
Follow the money?
He physically hurt no-one.
Yeah, I heard Chinese sweatshops are actually fun to work in.
And so it begins: The Cult of Jobs
How will you know if its truly interesting?
Well don't watch any tv sports then, because with that logic, every athlete who gets sponsored by a sports wear company is aiding Nike, Addidas et al who are famous for their child labour and appalling treatment of staff. Jobs didn't run the factories in China. Nutjob communists do!
There is already a book in the old testament about him; I think the religion started quite a bit ago.
It is an ok read, but doesn't mention Apple, macintosh or iPods explicitly. An earlier book in the series has a bit about apples and the 'tree of knowledge'.
I don't think it is meant to be taken literally. The whole bit about the righteous suffering is obviously a poke at windows users; and satan is obviously a stand-in for billg. I don't get who God represents - maybe Gerstner?
Overall, a +1, it certainly isn't as dreary as watching Cringely suck off a dead man.
So, are we all just meant to believe that this guy lost it back in 1995 and took almost 16 years to find it? (Amazingly just after Job's death?) Not only that, but is also ready for commercial use? (I doubt they are going to play the RAW interview..)
Is this the same Cringely guy who turned down the shares at the beginning of Apple starting up? No wonder he's milking this for all it's worth.
Tell you what; how about you go around your home and throw out everything that was made in a sweatshop, Chinese or otherwise. Then come back and tell me what you have left.
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Name all the other companies using that factory... without looking it up.
While you're being silent in an attempt to appear too busy to reply to such a pointless post, pause for a moment to consider that the only reason you latched onto the plight of those overworked people was because it makes Apple look bad.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Or maybe he thinks Jobs is an exception rather than the rule and would prefer his kids to finish college. Anyway, he is a journalist, he earns money selling interviews amongst other things. Regardless whether you like him or not: why should he give away his work for free?
All audience members will also be provided with a life-like latex cast of steve's balls to gargle.
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That would carry somewhat more weight if he hadn't been whoring it out for the better part of 3 decades.
Cringely explains why on his blog: Seeking a final resolution
Also, he talks about technical bits about the digitization.
I paid the going retail price for a Windows screen reader and got a free Unix computer!
Name all the other companies using that factory... without looking it up.
The difference is that most other companies don't tout that smug, righteous attitude that makes them look like huge hypocrites when they hire sweatshops.
That's your justification? "It's terrible that these people are working in such horrible conditions that they kill themselves, but if the company that makes my blinky thing is humble about it they're forgiven."
Well, I appreciate your honesty at least.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
It would appear that a reality distortion field has altered your perception of what I said.
I didn't say that anything resembling the words you put in my mouth. I'm just pointing out which companies look especially hypocritical, and which don't.
For the record, I'm an anti "free trade" type, and I would support stiff tariffs on imports to counteract the disadvantages that US companies have paying for decent wages, acceptable working conditions, environmental and safety costs. But since few in this country agree with me, in the meantime at least I can point out turtleneck-wearing hypocrites.
It would appear that a reality distortion field has altered your perception of what I said.
That's interesting because you apparently didn't get my point, either. You're using 'reality distortion' to promote your hate. Which is fine, really, I mean I'm not above that either. You're just nailing one of your feet to the floor and spinning in circles.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Enough Already!
What's wrong with making money off Jobs' death? Apple made a ton, and so did his biographer.
Not just his biographer - I'd be stunned if his family wasn't collecting a large percentage of the profits from the biography.
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I just wish there were stories that put his innovation into perspective: he didn't do anything other than latch onto others creations and sell it.
Read the Biography. Jobs was much more than a salesman. He was intimately involved with the design of products from the Mac forward. Starting with the Mac he was constantly insisting on changes to the radius of curves in the plastic, he made so many suggestions about the design of the Mac Calculator that the engineer wrote a Calculator Construction kit, so Jobs could tweak the design until it was just right (which he did and this was the calculator for the next decade).
These are just a couple of anecdotes, and there are many out there, but it isn't the anecdotes that bring this home. You really need to read the biography to really understand the bigger picture of Steve Jobs.
Calling him just a salesman, is pure ignorance in action. Jobs was more intimately involved in product design than any CEO of his generation.
Not much why there. It looks more like rationalizing beating this dead horse showing 288 line analog VHS upconvert in a movie theater. Showing it in the theater gets more buzz (witness stories like this) for further monetizing it.
I find it quite distasteful.
..it comes out on DRM-free digital distribution using patent unencumbered codecs.
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Some of my all-time favorite music is poor quality live recordings.
There's a 3 disc Velvet Underground live album (Quine Tapes, volume 1) that is just mind-blowing, despite being some of the worst audio quality I've ever heard on a commercial disc release (IIRC, it was recorded on a stereo reel-reel and transfered to cassette at some point in the 1970s when the original open reel tapes started falling apart).
I have a couple of other bootlegs that might be worse, but not many. It seems like since the late 1980s that either audience recordings got a lot better or the bootlegs that bubble to the surface are soundboard sourced.
But even then, the mixes aren't always great for normal stereo reproduction or there's generational loss.
It all depends on how we will share the profits. Drop me a note and we'll figure something out.
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offensive? almost everything is offensive to at least one person somewhere.. you aren't suggesting censorship are you? grow a hide, coward. I'm glad some people here aren't weak willed cultists. the guy was a business man sure but there are plenty of those. he was also a grade A asshole to a lot of the people who actually built the products his company sold. that coupled with his design > usefulness mentality are what get him bad raps on tech oriented sites. perhaps it is you who isn't tech oriented.