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 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.
One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.
It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
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.
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.
Our computer is more beautiful than the other guy's computer,
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.
We clearly have slowed down the process of picking a new partner to see how this (Hollywood) game of musical chairs will end and who the new CEO of Disney will be,