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"Steve Jobs himself called Gizmodo editorial director Brian Lam to personally request that Gizmodo return the iPhone to Apple" I imagine not going volcanic on

"Steve Jobs himself called Gizmodo editorial director Brian Lam to personally request that Gizmodo return the iPhone to Apple" I imagine not going volcanic on that call was the hardest thing Steve Jobs has ever done.

rbanffy 16y ago
I was going to mention when Jobs left Apple to create NeXT but creating the company that now is Apple is more or less going nuclear.
- rbanffy 16y ago
  I know you may not agree current Apple is NeXT, but: - Apple makes beautiful computers - ... that run a descendant of NeXTSTEP - ... with development tools that are direct descendants of the NeXT tools (down to the use of Objective-C) Apple is a well funded NeXT. Jobs turned the post-Jobs Apple into NeXT 2.0 And that's a high compliment both to him and to Apple. Nobody would like to be 90's Apple.
  - rufo 16y ago
    I always refer to the Apple/NeXT acquisition as "the time NeXT bought Apple for negative $429 million."
    - rbanffy 16y ago
      On very rare occasions, vengeance is also very profitable ;-)
josefresco 16y ago
You think "going volcanic" is a un-common occurrence for Jobs? For some reason I would think it happens to him daily, and unfortunately it essentially means Job's is a giant asshole. A very, very, very successful rich and powerful asshole, but an asshole nonetheless. Love the fact that Brian had the stones to not take Steve's call that day.
- infinite8s 16y ago
  It's pretty easy to not take a call. I would praise his stones a lot more if he had taken Steve's call.