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
When we announced the Microsoft deal six months ago in Boston, we heard boos which I thought was crazy. In an industry of 'flash-in-the-pan' partnerships, this has turned out differently. Microsoft is out to continue a very healthy application business on the Mac,
We're going to keep going until we're faster than those guys,
We're really buying into Bob's vision, not the other way around.
The problem with that is, we're still competing with piracy, ... the consumer will not like that. It will basically be a message to the consumer saying, 'go back to piracy.'
We use industry standard RSS so that anyone can subscribe. You do not even need a Mac.
We are going to make a great computer even better, ... The new iMac is far more beautiful and thinner.
It's impossibly small, ... It's thinner than a No. 2 pencil.
This decision is consistent with our strategy to focus all of our software development resources on extending the Macintosh operating system.
And you guys were putting Java in light bulbs and everything else,
It's a non-issue for us... We sell computers.
I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
He is my buddy. I would hate to see what his enemies look like.
Our competitor gives away the player, but they charge you big bucks if you want to broadcast anything,
So we think these products are wrong, ... We think that video may be the wrong direction to go.