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
It's all come together for us in our fiscal first quarter which just ended,
Power computing has pioneered direct marketing and sales in the Macintosh market.
It's a package announcement today. We're very excited about it.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod.
to discover the deep sources of his character and motivation; what makes him exceptional as well as what makes him real... Where he got his unusual ideas about leadership, management and the creative process... How he had been changed by his years of wealth and celebrity and by his years of struggle and failure.
Whether people will buy a device just to watch video - it's not clear, ... So far the answer's been no, because there are several devices out which play video and none of them has been successful yet. So, um - so far, nobody's figured out the right formula.
We're baffled that a settlement imposed against Microsoft for breaking the law should allow, even encourage, them to unfairly make inroads into education -- one of the few markets left where they don't have monopoly power,
We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.
I'm very excited about having the Internet in my den.
The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.