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.
We've got five or six things to tell you about today, so let's get started.
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.
I'm hoping our software strategies are boring to you, because they're not changing every year, ... That is our strategy.
And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
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.
So we think these products are wrong, ... We think that video may be the wrong direction to go.