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There's this "toner heads" interview with Jobs, you've probably seen it but it fascinates me every time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1rXqD6M614 https://ww

There's this "toner heads" interview with Jobs, you've probably seen it but it fascinates me every time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1rXqD6M614 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1rXqD6M614

dba7dba 8y ago
Mr. Jobs was so eloquent in that interview. But, lol. The irony. He appoints Tim Cook to be his successor, who is NOT a product person but a supply chain specialist. He definitely is not a product person. The same product team under Mr. Jobs may still be there, but I'd think most would agree Apple's been putting out new products that are somewhat lacking...
- chongli 8y ago
  I'm sure Steve would have loved to put the product guy (Jony Ive) in charge but I bet Ive didn't want the job. This is why people like Steve Jobs are so rare: product guys who want to run the company and deal with all of the business stuff instead of rolling up their sleeves every day. People criticize Steve Jobs for the fact that he was never an engineer. But he was never a suit either. He was more like Santa Claus: running around his workshop and getting so excited about all the new toys the elves come up with. He could play with your demo for a few minutes and tell you what was wrong with it, from the perspective of a non-engineer, and thus give you feedback on things that engineers take for granted.
  - chenglou 8y ago
    People buy the Apple hardware but stay for the software. Scott Forstall might have been considered but he didn’t play well with a few other key design and hardware people at the time. In an alternative world where SF is CEO, you’d end up with an iPhone X that looks like iPhone 4/5 and might have had weaker hardware but largely compensated by better software (as demonstrated by iOS 12, early iPods and macs, etc.). Then with time, the skeumorphism would dial down and meet iOS 7’s extreme minimalism in the middle, like current iOSes are doing anyway. SF knew machine learning, so Siri would definitely have been his focus too. There’s a niche of folks who are waiting for SF to make a come back the same way SJ did =)

There's this "toner heads" interview with Jobs, you've probably seen it but it fascinates me every time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1rXqD6M614 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1rXqD6M614

dba7dba 8y ago

Mr. Jobs was so eloquent in that interview. But, lol. The irony. He appoints Tim Cook to be his successor, who is NOT a product person but a supply chain specialist. He definitely is not a product person. The same product team under Mr. Jobs may still be there, but I'd think most would agree Apple's been putting out new products that are somewhat lacking...

chongli 8y ago
I'm sure Steve would have loved to put the product guy (Jony Ive) in charge but I bet Ive didn't want the job. This is why people like Steve Jobs are so rare: product guys who want to run the company and deal with all of the business stuff instead of rolling up their sleeves every day. People criticize Steve Jobs for the fact that he was never an engineer. But he was never a suit either. He was more like Santa Claus: running around his workshop and getting so excited about all the new toys the elves come up with. He could play with your demo for a few minutes and tell you what was wrong with it, from the perspective of a non-engineer, and thus give you feedback on things that engineers take for granted.
- chenglou 8y ago
  People buy the Apple hardware but stay for the software. Scott Forstall might have been considered but he didn’t play well with a few other key design and hardware people at the time. In an alternative world where SF is CEO, you’d end up with an iPhone X that looks like iPhone 4/5 and might have had weaker hardware but largely compensated by better software (as demonstrated by iOS 12, early iPods and macs, etc.). Then with time, the skeumorphism would dial down and meet iOS 7’s extreme minimalism in the middle, like current iOSes are doing anyway. SF knew machine learning, so Siri would definitely have been his focus too. There’s a niche of folks who are waiting for SF to make a come back the same way SJ did =)