Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobswas an American information technology entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officerof Apple Inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT Inc. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Shortly after his death, Jobs's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth24 February 1955
CountryUnited States of America
My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT , and I wonder about Apple.
digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud - PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, ... - Apple is in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long (innovator's dilemma) - Google and Microsoft are further along on the technology, but haven't quite figured it out yet - tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem
Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!
To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.
How can you get fired from the company you started?
After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.
I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.
The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq.
My kids accuse me and my wife of being fascists and overly concerned about tech, and they say that none of their friends have the same rules... That's because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand. I've seen it in myself, I don't want to see that happen to my kids.
The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.
It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought
The were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times
We have never worried about numbers. In the market place, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make a differenceYou can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.
The customer is the final inspector.