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What's especially interesting about this is that Steve Jobs modeled so much of Apple on Sony. Interesting to see things work the other way around.
by j_baker 16y ago
What's especially interesting about this is that Steve Jobs modeled so much of Apple on Sony. Interesting to see things work the other way around.
- mitjak 16y agoFirst time I hear about that. Source?
- _delirium 16y agoJobs was reportedly greatly influenced by Sony's late-70s/early-80s design sense, especially wildly popular consumer products like the Walkman. This book has a brief mention of Apple sharing a building with a Sony office in 1977, though I could've sworn I've seen a longer discussion somewhere: http://books.google.com/books?id=W4_P8LDZOmAC&pg=PT38 http://books.google.com/books?id=W4_P8LDZOmAC&pg=PT38. I think Jobs has actually said somewhere that the iPod was intended to be the "Walkman of the 21st century".
- frou_dh 16y agoPresumably: http://www.cultofmac.com/john-sculley-on-steve-jobs-the-full-interview-transcript http://www.cultofmac.com/john-sculley-on-steve-jobs-the-full...
- po 16y agoThere's also a funny story about Jobs trying to build their own disk drive instead of using Sony's: Quick, hide in this closet! http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Hide_Under_This_Desk.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...