That guy is such a cheesy salesman. Apple has been lucky to face incompetent competitors.
I'm a fan. When something is good, the only rational choice is to be one.
When you remember how badly designed and marketed the iPod's competitors were its success is less remarkable.
I don't have any animosity towards the guy at all but I have to chuckle when he shovels out bologna like that.
I guess there is no genius without some form of madness. I respect him mainly because he is a product of the 60's counterculture and was able to infuse "cosmic consciousness" into technology.
I'm glad you don't. So many people take it way too far. It's just a computer man.
It's not surprising to me that an ambitious man like Jobs, who (arguably) failed with Apple the first time around, then failed with NeXT, then became seriously ill while leading a resurgent Apple, might decide that the touchy-feely bits of his youthful worldview are less important than a more tangible legacy.
I'm not saying it's the correct choice, or laudable, but it is understandable.
Rumelt congratulated Jobs on the turnaround but expressed skepticism about Apple’s chances of overcoming the Windows-Intel lock on personal computers. “What are you going to do in the longer term?” Rumelt asked. “What’s the strategy?” Jobs, he recalls, “just smiled and said, ‘I am going to wait for the next big thing.’”
He may be, but your fanboy is showing. Woz was the hacker, Steve is a smart businessman with a good eye for style.