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Steve Jobs's Big Miss: TV

Posted by samzenpus on from the blow-up-your-tv-throw-away-your-paper dept.

jfruh writes Steve Jobs was a well-known audiophile and music lover, which helps explain why Apple transformed the music industry in the '00s with the iPod and iTunes. But according to a new biography soon to be released, Apple may have failed to do the same for TV because of Steve Jobs's disdain for the medium. One of his first acts upon returning to the company was to kill the flashy, expensive 20th Anniversary Macintosh, in part because it had a built-in TV tuner. "Apple will never make a TV again," Jobs declared.

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  1. He was wrong, but not how you expect by DrunkenTerror · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Jobs, as it turns out, was completely wrong about the integration of television and computers.

    â€oeWe donâ€(TM)t think that televisions and personal computers are going to merge,†Jobs told Macworld in 2004 when discussing the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh. â€oeWe think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.â€"

    Now most of them use the "computer" to discuss weighty matters like how "this one for my niggas, I woulda said it was for the bitches but I dont got shit for bitches... .Shame on all you niggas all on the Instagram stuntin' for them bitches frontin' under pictures!"

    Heady stuff from @DocFromDaGloâ--ï¸

  2. Re:Breaking News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This just in... Steve Jobs has bad judgment. Details at 8.

    This just in... Apple makes Billions of dollars while company after company doing things the way idiot geeks suggest goes out of business.