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Everything we needed to know about Steve Jobs
THE AUTHORISED Steve Jobs biography is on the Amazon Kindle store now, and in many, many reviewers' hands.
The INQUIRER has a copy, but we've been too busy to actually read it yet. Instead we've visited some other titles to find out what they learned from their afternoon spent drinking tea and reading.
So, we present, all we needed to know about the man who invented the Iphone, the Ipad and the Ipod, without having to read the Ibook.
Jobs did what we cannot, he admired Mark Zuckerberg
"We talk about social networks in the plural, but I don't see anybody other than Facebook out there. Just Facebook, They are dominating this. I admire Mark Zuckerberg . . . for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot."
He thought 'Antennagate' row was a Google/Motorola plot
Holidaying Jobs thought that rival firms wanted to "shoot Apple down".
You could consider him not a fan of Android
"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go to thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death because they know they are guilty."
He enjoyed recreational substances. At least in the 1960s
"The time we grew up in was a magical time and it was also a very spiritual time in my life. Definitely taking LSD was one of the most important things in my life."
Jobs wanted to use Siri to control televisions
"I'd like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with Icloud. No longer would users have to fiddle with complex remotes for DVD players and cable channels. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it."
He warned President Obama about his political future
"You're headed for a one-term presidency," he said during what it described as a tense meeting. Perhaps he was still annoyed that the President had not taken the time to call him to arrange the meeting himself. µ
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Heh, then his 'Apple' was a 'stolen project' too.
Checkmate.
Jobs sounds like an arrogant SOB with a rather skewed view of reality -- too much LDS in the 60's.
I love that thermonuclear war statement. That's how all competition should be. Bravo Google, and bravo Apple! Let the games begin!
Samsung stole the iOS operating system from Apple, and Apple stole the entire icons/mouse/windows idea from Xerox.
Jobs = Hypocrite.
I WANT TO KNOW WHERE JOBS HID THE MONEY. YOU IDIOTS CANT DO ANYTHING WRITE!
Was make pretty toys that most people wanted. That is what a ceo should do. As a person I know next to nothing about I think I don't respect him. Maybe like charging $800 for 3 gb rams when I bought 2 4gb for $80. People like to ignore his failures and there where many.I must admit I would like a shiny all aluminum mac book pro, but that won't happen.
For me it's what kind of person he was and not what he did for a living.
I would never compare him to any famous inventor, but buy a long shot.
Gotta do better than that Inq. No humour, no insight, no nothing.
Isn't that every industry? It's not like apple invented the mp3 player, app store, online music store, or cell phone. They took somebody's else's idea, made it better, and used better advertising.
With regards to Android: We all know Saint Jobs' record is spotless and he never stole technology.