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
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.'
You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.
Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.
If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.
If a user is having a problem, it's our problem.
It is not clear that buying songs over the air makes economic sense. I am skeptical because of the cost...but we will see.
People are going to bring them home to work on something Sunday morning, they're not going to be able to get their kids away from them, and maybe someday they may even buy a second one to use at home.
Well, uh, if we knew then I probably shouldn't talk about it,
Over one billion songs have now been legally purchased and downloaded around the globe, representing a major force against music piracy and the future of music distribution as we move from CDs to the Internet.
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.
Our transition to Intel processors is going very well, and our music business just experienced another quarter of outstanding growth.
Please be a little more patient with us and we'll do these things in the correct order,
I think it will be either a triumphant cap on a successful relationship with Disney or the huge beginning of a bountiful new chapter in our relationship with them,
I'm in love with the new iMac -- it's the finest product Apple has ever created.