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
We're baffled that a settlement imposed against Microsoft for breaking the law should allow, even encourage, them to unfairly make inroads into education -- one of the few markets left where they don't have monopoly power,
We're really buying into Bob's vision, not the other way around.
We want to stand at the intersection of computers and humanism
The reason for that is Sun and Apple haven't worked that closely on Java in the past.
We've got five or six things to tell you about today, so let's get started.
Whether people will buy a device just to watch video - it's not clear, ... So far the answer's been no, because there are several devices out which play video and none of them has been successful yet. So, um - so far, nobody's figured out the right formula.
When we announced the Microsoft deal six months ago in Boston, we heard boos which I thought was crazy. In an industry of 'flash-in-the-pan' partnerships, this has turned out differently. Microsoft is out to continue a very healthy application business on the Mac,
We're going to keep going until we're faster than those guys,
In our track record over the last few years, we've only had one product that we've introduced that hasn't met our expectations in its first quarter of sales, and that is our G4 cube, ... If we haven't hit it right on the market with the G4 cube, well, we're just going to keep working on it until we do.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
I know it is frustrating to some of our investors that we're not sort of a quarter-to-quarter growth company, ... But the fact is our life is measured in pictures, not quarters. And we are increasing our output.
I hope that every customer, artist and music company executive takes a moment today to reflect on what we've achieved together during the past three years. Over 1 billion songs have now been legally purchased and downloaded around the globe, representing a major force against music piracy and the future of music distribution as we move from CDs to the Internet.
I heard some hisses. Au contraire. I think it's the best browser on the platform.
I'm an audiophile. I've had stereos costing, well I won't say because you'll think I'm crazy. But, costing a lot more. And, I'm thinking of getting rid of mine for this.