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Despite his quote referencing IBM & Xerox, I believe there's a good chance that quote was self-reflective, a call back to past decisions. Jobs was a "sales" man
by CorruptedArc 5y ago
Despite his quote referencing IBM & Xerox, I believe there's a good chance that quote was self-reflective, a call back to past decisions. Jobs was a "sales" man himself despite his technical understandings though he had the awareness to realize where it was and had been leading to.
His wisdom here rings of experience. It was probably meant to be as much a warning as it is informative.
- hajile 5y agoIt's probably partly aimed at Xerox. They basically invented the GUI and because they were a monopoly in other areas, they didn't have people in place to recognize what an amazing thing they had.
- oyebenny 5y agoSounds like the basis/reason from which Joe McMillan left IBM in the amazing AMC series "Halt and Catch Fire".
- thegtproject 5y agoHalt and Catch Fire was a really fun watch! And I love these type of storylines though offhand I can only think of this and Pirates of Silicon Valley. I was wondering if you knew of other similar shows/movies? I'm highly interested.
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- ortusdux 5y agoThis quote was from a 1995 interview, so two years before Apple bought out Steve's NeXT and made him the CEO.