Igor Delovski Board

[delovski]

Dress Up Steve Jobs For His Sept 12 Keynote

[XNote]

Steve and Steve in 1976

A picture of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, taken in 1976.

[Ike]

Is Steve Jobs Bill Gates 2.0?

"Bill Gates learned early on that controlling the platform is the key to
future profits. Steve Jobs 2.0 gets that very well. The iTunes and iPod
control of the digital media/convergence markets is quit akin to the
Windows domination of the PC business. Microsoft knew that the profits
were in selling software an applications and not the hardware, and they
let everyone else duke it out in the PC market."

[Ike]

Time Magazine: "Bill, thank you. The world's a better place."

Time Magazine Cover - issue from 1998 that has Steve Jobs on a cell phone
talking to Bill Gates thanking him for his $200M investment in Apple".

[Ike]

Video: Apple iPod Introduction

Amazing!

[XNote]

September 23, 1985: Apple Sues Steve

"On the one hand, the company had taken all responsibility away from
Jobs, indicating strongly that he was incompetent. On the other hand,
they were now suing a supposedly blatant incompetent for being savvy
enough to grab key employees. Logic never stops a decent lawsuit and
Apple sued Steve Jobs this day in 1985."

[XNote]

Videos - Steve at early NeXT:

Part One & Part Two

[XNote]

Wired: Steve Jobs' Best Quotes Ever

"The CEO of Apple Computer is a master of hype, hyperbole and the
catchy phrase. Even when he's trying to talk normally, brilliant verbiage
comes tumbling out."

[Ike]

Digg: Steve Jobs:Three stories from my life

"You've got to find what you love. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."

Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-204609026222503944

[Ike]

How Steve Jobs Came Up With 'The Perfect Thing'

"According to Levy, the iPod became The Perfect Thing and a marketplace
blockbuster because of Jobs, in all of his boss-from-Hell genius."

[Ike]

Digg: What meetings are like with Steve Jobs

"An executive briefing always looks, on paper, like a clash of titanic egos.
From what I saw, most wilt quickly in Steve's presence. And customers'
reverence for him usually overwhelms any hostility." Sounds like a good
time."

[delovski]

YouTube: Macworld Boston 1997-The Microsoft Deal

"We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose."

&

[XNote]

Digg: Forbes says: Apple's Steve Jobs a 'Cult Celebrity Billionaire Mastermind'

"Then there is nerd-fame. Perennially clad in a uniform of black turtleneck
and jeans, Steve Jobs enjoys cultish celebrity status among fans of Apple,
the computer company he founded in 1976. Jobs, worth $5.7 billion, has
been touted as a creative mastermind..."

[Ike]

Digg: How Steve Jobs Calls the Tunes

"Steve Jobs' new partnership with EMI to sell music without copy protection
is a lesson in how to wield power in the digital age. Carefully and strategically,
Jobs set up the pieces to create a new business model for online music - one
without copy protection - and now we're starting to see the dominos fall."

[Maja]

marketwatch.com - Bill Gates, Steve Jobs set for historic conversation

"Although Gates made a famous phone call to Jobs in 1997 and the two
briefly shared a stage at a 1983 Apple event, the two industry icons have
never had a public conversation."

[Ike]

With success, a kinder, gentler Steve Jobs

"At the D Conference today, twice he gave glimpses of the new Steve Jobs
that stood out from his pontifications about iPhone, Apple TV, and the industry
at large. He joked, he threw punch lines, and he was even nice to Bill Gates."

[Ike]

NY Mag: Steve Jobs in a Box



"Somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion cell phones are sold worldwide
every year; in terms of scale, ubiquity, and relevance, it’s the mother of all
consumer-electronics markets. The chance to upend this sprawling industry,
bend it to his will, is one that Jobs, being Jobs, finds irresistible."

[Ike]

cnn money / fortune: The trouble with Steve Jobs

"Jobs likes to make his own rules, whether the topic is computers, stock options,
or even pancreatic cancer. The same traits that make him a great CEO drive him
to put his company, and his investors, at risk."

[delovski]

Enjoying the show, avoiding the flamethrower: life inside Apple

"What's it like working inside Apple when the MacWorld announcements are
made? The man who set up many of its email systems and worked there 17
years explains the inside story of the preparation, the unveiling – and why
it's sometimes best to avoid Steve Jobs."

[delovski]

MF - Steve Jobs Named Fortune's 'CEO of the Decade'

"Fortune today named Apple CEO Steve Jobs "CEO of the Decade", highligh-
ting his role in the remaking of multiple industries and propelling Apple to
continued success despite difficult economic conditions. As part of the featu-
re, Fortune profiles Jobs and offers an interactive timeline of major Apple
events over the past ten years."

[delovski]

Wired - Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing

"When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy.
The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little
older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give peo-
ple exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspira-
cy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But
the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the
truth."

[delovski]

Wired: Sept. 16, 1985: Jobs Quits Apple; Sept. 16, 1997: Jobs Rejoins
Apple

"Sept. 16: It’s an auspicious day in the history of Steve Jobs. It’s the day he
quit Apple and the day he returned."

[delovski]

Derek Sivers - The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote

"iTunes had just launched two weeks before, with only some music from the
major labels. Many of us in the music biz were not sure this idea was going
to work. Especially those who had seen companies like eMusic do this exact
same model for years without big success."

[delovski]

msdn.com - PDC 1996 Keynote with Bob Muglia and Steve Jobs

"Bob Muglia introduces Steve Jobs in this PDC 1996 keynote. Steve Jobs was
President of NeXT Corporation and talks about WebObjects as well as taking
questions from some of the developers in the audience. "

[delovski]

forum.astro.com - Steve Jobs brilliant man, career

"Friend: Wow, what an unusual ring.
Mrs. Jobs: I know, isn't it cool?
Friend: Yeah. Where did you get it?
Mrs. Jobs: My husband made it when he was in India. It's my engagement ring. I always wear it.
Friend: Wow. It's beautiful.
Mrs. Jobs: (holds hand up, looks at ring) Yeah, I know."

[delovski]

reddit - Steve Jobs has died

"Thanks, Steve."

[delovski]

The Onion - Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing Dies

"... a statement from President Barack Obama read in part, adding that Jobs
will be remembered both for the life-changing products he created and for
the fact that he was able to sit down, think clearly, and execute his ideas—
attributes he shared with no other U.S. citizen."

[delovski]

The Atlantic - In Praise of Bad Steve

"Steve Jobs was a genius, and one of the most important businessmen and
inventors of our time. But he was not a kindly, soft-spoken sage who might
otherwise live atop a mountain in India, dispatching wisdom to pilgrims. He
was a taskmaster who knew how to get things done."

[delovski]

Harvard Political Review - Assessing Steve JobsBy (by Jonathan Yip)

"Jobs was famous for never consulting market research or focus groups. He
was never afraid to take risks in moving his products and headstrong vision
forward. Time and time again he angered his users, ditching floppy disks,
DVD drives, and Adobe Flash. He unveiled a phone with no keyboard when
every smartphone had a keyboard. He released a tablet after Microsoft had
failed for a decade with its own tablets. Each time, users came around to
Jobs’ concept, understanding and ultimately benefiting from decisions that
they disagreed with. You might call that leadership."

[delovski]

reddit - Steve Jobs Headlines Everywhere =( RIP - (imgur)

"I've collected a bunch of headlines all over the web that dreadful night. This
pretty much tells the scope and effect his death means around the World.

I especially like Panic, Wired and Boing Boing's special attention to the news.
Note that even iPhone Dev Team is also paying their tribute."

[Ike]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/fashion/the-steve-jobs-backlash.html?_r=2

[delovski]

fastcodesign.com - Steve Jobs Almost Named The iMac The MacMan,
Until This Guy Stopped Him

"I’d like to believe we were all so smart that within seconds we were con-
vinced that we were witnessing the start of a miracle resurgence. But it
wasn’t quite like that. Later, when the agency team was alone and able to
share the thoughts we felt at that moment of reveal, we found that we all
had pretty much the same feeling. It was part shock, part excitement, and
part hope that Steve Jobs really knew what he was doing--because there
was a real chance that this revolutionary computer might just be too shock-
ing for its own good."

[Ike]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-said-let-there-be-an-iphone.html


And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’

[Ike]

nyt - And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’

"Jobs rarely backed himself into corners like this. He was well known as a
taskmaster, seeming to know just how hard he could push his staff so that
it delivered the impossible. But he always had a backup, a Plan B, that he
could go to if his timetable was off."

[Ike]

r - Controversial documentary about Steve Jobs by Alex Gibney

"Alex Gibney, the man behind the hugely controversial Scientology expose
'Going Clear', has made an "equally controversial" documentary about Steve
Jobs"

[delovski]

daringfireball - Courage

"When we think of controversial decisions, we tend to think of both sides as
creating controversy. Choose A and the B proponents will be angry; choose
B and the A proponents will be angry. But when it comes to controversial
change of the status quo, it's not like that. Only the people who are opposed
to the change get outraged. Leave things as they are and there is no
controversy. The people who aren't outraged by the potential change are
generally ambivalent about it, not in a fervor for it. Strong feelings against
change on one side, and widespread ambivalence on the other. That's why
the status quo is generally so slow to change, in fields ranging from politics
to technology."

[Ike]

cnbc - Apple's first employee shares lessons he learned from working with Steve Jobs

BONUS: PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi on why Steve Jobs advised her to throw tantrums

"Nooyi recalled: 'He said, if you really feel strongly about something,
if you don't like something people are doing - throw a temper tantrum.
Throw things around, because people have got to know that you feel
strongly about it."

[delovski]

nyt - And Then Steve Said, 'Let There Be an iPhone'

"Grignon knew the iPhone unveiling was not an ordinary product announce-
ment, but no one could have anticipated what a seminal moment it would
become. In the span of seven years, the iPhone and its iPad progeny have
become among the most important innovations in Silicon Valley's history."

[Ike]

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/13/15782200/one-device-secret-history-iphone-brian-merchant-book-excerpt

THE SECRET ORIGIN STORY OF THE IPHONE
An exclusive excerpt from The One Device

[Ike]

http://kensegall.com/2017/06/steve-jobs-and-the-missing-intel-inside-sticker/


Steve Jobs and the missing 'Intel Inside' sticker

[Ike]

worth - How Laurene Powell Jobs Is Putting Her Wealth to Work

"Laurene Powell Jobs spent two decades as the partner of one of the world's
most influential men. Now she's taking the fortune he left her and using it to
shape her future -- and the world's."