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
OS X may result in some pent up demand being released, ... I think it will become one of the landmark operating systems of our industry when it is released next year.
The swift industry-wide decline in PC sales will result in Apple's first non-profitable quarter in three years, ... We're not happy about it, and plan to return to sustained profitability next quarter. We are committed to reducing our channel inventories to normal levels by the end of this quarter, and remain very excited about the new products and programs Apple will be rolling out in 2001.
Selling one million videos in less than 20 days strongly suggests there is a market for legal downloads. Our next challenge is to broaden our content offerings.
We said we'd be shipping by next June and we are on track to have that be a true statement.
We've clearly hit a speed bump, which will result in our earning, before investment gains, approximately $110 million rather than the expected $165 million for the September quarter, ... Though this slowdown is disappointing, we have so many wonderful new products and programs in the pipeline, including Mac OS X early next year, and remain positive about our future.
Our results this quarter reflect the outstanding performance of 'Monsters, Inc.,' ... Which is poised to continue with its domestic home video release next month, and earnings from our growing film library, which continues to outperform our expectations.
iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.
The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world. And once you're in this web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place.
I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney -- not replace Disney -- but be the next Disney.
My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT , and I wonder about Apple.
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
We went from nothing online to the gold standard in e-commerce.
What's happened at Apple is that our business has basically tripled in the last five or six years.