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
What's happened at Apple is that our business has basically tripled in the last five or six years.
Look, we have to get this thing under a thousand dollars. But we can afford to pay up to that because we have to live with these things for five years. We don't want to buy something that's going to be obsolete in nine months.
We've got five or six things to tell you about today, so let's get started.
Apple grew faster than the industry this quarter for the first time in nearly five years,
So today for the first time, I can confirm the rumors that every release of Mac OS X has been compiled for both PowerPC and Intel. This has been going on for the last five years.
We took our medicine last quarter and brought our channel inventories back down to about five and a half weeks,
Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
We went from nothing online to the gold standard in e-commerce.
We convinced people fairly rapidly that survival, at least in the short term, was not an issue.
We are very careful about what features we add because we can't take them away.
Is it an inappropriate, unfair use of our copyrighted work? It seems pretty clear that it is.
These are the first personal computers in history with dual processors, ... This is the kind of stuff many of our customers do every day and this can save them an hour or two each day.
And you guys were putting Java in light bulbs and everything else,
Power computing has pioneered direct marketing and sales in the Macintosh market.