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're really buying into Bob's vision, not the other way around.
Our results this quarter reflect the outstanding performance of 'Monsters, Inc.,' ... Which is poised to continue with its domestic home video release next month, and earnings from our growing film library, which continues to outperform our expectations.
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.
The swift industry-wide decline in PC sales will result in Apple's first non-profitable quarter in three years, ... We're not happy about it, and plan to return to sustained profitability next quarter. We are committed to reducing our channel inventories to normal levels by the end of this quarter, and remain very excited about the new products and programs Apple will be rolling out in 2001.
Selling one million videos in less than 20 days strongly suggests there is a market for legal downloads. Our next challenge is to broaden our content offerings.
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.
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.