Apple was jobs, Jobs was Apple. What a man.
by Krishna Kumar Subraminiam
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Apple is the only brand where you cannot separate the founder from the Brand. Perhaps Google, Face book and Virgin may also come under the same classifiaction but none come close to Steve Jobs.
Imagine being kicked out of a company you founded and then your new company NeXt gets acquired by the same Apple and one year later he gets reincarnated as CEO to Take apple computers renamed Apple to soaring heights. I must confess I cannot live without my Apple Mac with its magnificent 27 inch screen and virtually Virus free. I do not have to keep buying software like Norton or Mc Fee and still have the computer hacked one morning. Apple takes care of security functionality of all its computers and all updates are automatic and free.. I did not buy an iPad 1 as I know with all new Products there will be teething problems. I am definitely getting an iPad II soon. An I Pod stays connected to my PC all the time and has all my favourite music. I was gifted an Apple TV but have not had the time to get it installed.. Yet.
I decided I am not going to do anything today as I am mourning Steve Jobs passing away. Did you watch his talk at Stanford convocation and how he faced death when diagnosed with cancer ?
Ram Krishnaswamy
Imagine being kicked out of a company you founded and then your new company NeXt gets acquired by the same Apple and one year later he gets reincarnated as CEO to Take apple computers renamed Apple to soaring heights. I must confess I cannot live without my Apple Mac with its magnificent 27 inch screen and virtually Virus free. I do not have to keep buying software like Norton or Mc Fee and still have the computer hacked one morning. Apple takes care of security functionality of all its computers and all updates are automatic and free.. I did not buy an iPad 1 as I know with all new Products there will be teething problems. I am definitely getting an iPad II soon. An I Pod stays connected to my PC all the time and has all my favourite music. I was gifted an Apple TV but have not had the time to get it installed.. Yet.
I decided I am not going to do anything today as I am mourning Steve Jobs passing away. Did you watch his talk at Stanford convocation and how he faced death when diagnosed with cancer ?
Ram Krishnaswamy
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Subah hoti hai! Sham hoti hai!
Zindagi Yunhi Tamam hoti hai!!
While another brilliant life gets snuffed out due to ravages of cancer, Let us pray our technological advances in the field of medicine may go leaps & bounds and that in our lifetimes we can see that nobody has to die such a painful death.
Zindagi Yunhi Tamam hoti hai!!
While another brilliant life gets snuffed out due to ravages of cancer, Let us pray our technological advances in the field of medicine may go leaps & bounds and that in our lifetimes we can see that nobody has to die such a painful death.
And till such time, let Govts. allow active euthanasia to advanced stage cancer patient with their consent, although medical fraternity will not be pleased with us as it is a very lucrative industry keeping cancer patient alive!
And at present I think my friend's community might also not like me for bringing up this topic but I have lost three family members to cancer & in the process of loosing a fourth one. And there should be debate on that as it is personal choice how to live or die and society should not dictate terms on that.
-with Regards
Sharmistha Das Gupta
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"brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it,"
Obama on Steve Jobs... Simply Inspiring
3 Remarkable qualities rolled in one Person. RIP Steve Jobs!
Saeed Patel
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3 Remarkable qualities rolled in one Person. RIP Steve Jobs!
Saeed Patel
Thinking about Steve Jobs
Hi!
In my life, I have been jealous twice and that too, real jealous.
First time was when I read the book “Made in Japan” by Akio Morita, who was a founder member of SONY and later had to shift to the US to take charge of SONY’s operations there.
The language of the book is neither smooth flowing, nor the one that would make one get interested. But the contents sure were.
Morita describes, that after the second World War, how the conditions existed in Japan and how the group formed by them had to work in the existing conditions.
He describes how he had cut the polythene sheet and by pasting the pieces together one after the another, how a primitive kind of Magnetic tape was made to use with the computers as a storage media.
He also shows his pride when SONY won the entire contract of providing the magnetic tapes required by IBM later in a particular year. My respect to Mr Morita was raised to higher levels.
And I felt jealous. I had never had such and similar atmosphere around me, that could have helped me work in similar circumstances. Imagine the job satisfaction level that those guys must have attained.
Second time I felt jealous, was when I read the book “Pepsi to Apple” by John Sculley”
John Sculley was a nobody who dated Pepsi chief’s step daughter. He managed to get into Pepsi to become it’s marketing chief.
Steve Jobs hunted him and requested him to take over the marketing of Apple, because apple was in the final stages of introducing it’s Mac that was to be made on automated production lines and Steve himself was not a marketing man,
John agreed and joined Apple.
The book describes the scene when the scroll bar was first ever finalized. It also mentions that on a particular day, when John & Steve left Apple office well beyond midnight, Apple’s was the only building lit completely, with all other surrounding buildings in the dark.
What a place it must have been to work for. It made me jealous, Having worked mostly in the Indian cities, I knew the Indian way of stretching the working hours. Here, something similar was happening that had subsequently led to the most appreciated computer ever as of date.
But the company failed in marketing as Apple’s sales started falling. John, who was recruited for marketing purposes managed to put all the blame on Steve and Steve was made to leave Apple.
I could not accept John’s explanation that is available in the book. But my respect for Steve Jobs increased a lot, till I read his own book later.
The book with the title “The Second Coming of Steve Jobs” was narrated by Steve about his experience after leaving Apple.
Although my respect for Steve technical abilities did grow a lot, I wondered, whether I would respect him as a good human being. He surely did earn a lot of curses from very many people, as explained in his own book.
But overall, with Steve Jobs death, the world has lost a great visionary. The man who could make things happen the way he wanted, and manage to rule that part of the world he was always thinking about.
Interested persons MUST read these three books, if not read so far. Even if you have read them years ago, you could still read them again and enjoy. These three books are simply great books that teach you too many things while telling you what had actually happened under those circumstances
That is my opinion and I could be wrong. So, please either read the three books or forget about this mail.
Cheers!
Mangesh
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iMOURN
L.V. Ramanathan
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Farewell Steve!
The death of Steve Jobs is likely to have caused anguish to many among us. Here is one passage of a tribute to him which carried a lot of sense. I reproduce it from
"I’m still far from grasping it, but I can see it’s what we should all grasp. We die. We can leave legacies, but I realise, I want to leave a Legacy of Love! Love for what I do, the people I do it with, and the people I do it for. True Purpose is not about you. It’s about those you touch. And death? Death just comes along and says “Ok, let the other kids play on the swing now”.
Powerful , I thought.
R.Mohan
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Our senior Gursharan Sidhu ('67 Gold Medallist) was a key member of the early Apple organization and the brains behind AppleTalk, the first Apple networking product.
Kalyan
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Steve Jobs, Apple and Gursharan Sidhu
One of the things going around about Sidhu : "One of his classmates went to machine design Prof Rammohan Rao and said he has also made the same mistake as Sidhu, but he got a C, but Sidhu got an A." Came the reply:
"If Sidhu makes a mistake, it is a slip; if you make that mistake, it's a blunder!"
Steve Jobs was born to a Muslim father; his adopted parents were Christians; he himself was Budhist. His 2005 Commencement lecture has flavour of Hindu thought. Atleast he ate food at Hare Krishna institutions, walking up there 6 miles. His life reminded me of Sankaracharya (1st - Adi), who finished off all his mission at the very early age and died at 32 or so.
Why are we all living an existence for existence sake?!! This question comes to me often.
After my retirement in Jan 2012, I want to live for others, failing which I'd be happy to die.
Ahani Ahani Bhoothani
Gachantheeha Yamalayam
Sheshasthavaramichanthi
Kimascharyamathaphparam! (Yaksha Prasnam)
Ranga.
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Ram krishnan has started a discussion:
Steve Jobs' Mantra Rooted in Buddhism: Focus and Simplicity
"As we all mourn the passing away of Steve Jobs, I came across this news item in Yahoo News. That Steve Jobs came to India in 1973 hoping to learn about Buddhism. Here we have one of the richest CEO's trying to be 'simple and different'. And we have all the folks in India wanting to be 'more American'.
I hope this article can be forwarded to the current students of all the IIT's. And may be Prof Baskar, our new Director, will also read this and see how we can include a class or two for the current students on spirituality and the great history of India.
Yes, I am thinking of all the students at all IIT's and other colleges who have committed suicides. Please read the full article in the link Ram Krishnan Long before Steve Jobs became the CEO of Apple and one of the most recognizable figures on the planet, he took a unconventional route to find himself -- a spiritual journey that influenced every step of an unconventional career.
Jobs, who died Wednesday at the age of 56 of pancreatic cancer, was the biological child of two unmarried academics who only consented to signing the papers if the adoptive parents sent him to college.
His adoptive parents sent a young Jobs off to Reed College, an expensive liberal arts school in Oregon, but he dropped out and went to India in the 1973 in search of enlightenment. Jobs and his college friend Daniel Kottke, who later worked for him at Apple, visited Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram.
He returned home to California a Buddhist, complete with a shaved head and traditional Indian clothing and a philosophy that may have shaped much of his corporate values.
Later, he was often seen walking barefoot in his trademark blue jeans around the office and reportedly often said that those around him didn't fully understand his way of thinking.
"I wouldn't say Steve Jobs was a practicing Buddhist," said Robert Thurman, a professor of Buddhist studies at Columbia University, who met Jobs and his "Tibetan buddies" in the 1980s in San Francisco."
Ram Krishnan
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"In the fall of 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club> with Wozniak. He took a job as a technician at Atari <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari> , a manufacturer of popular video games <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_and_video_games> , with the primary intent of saving money for a spiritual retreat to India <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India> .
Jobs then traveled to India to visit Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram with a Reed College friend (and, later, the first Apple employee), Daniel Kottke , in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing.[35] [36] During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics , calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life".[37] He later said that people around him who did not share his countercultural roots could not fully relate to his thinking."
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Jobs about Gates/Microsoft: The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.
Jobs about Michael Dell/Dell Corporation: They make uninnovative beige boxes.
Gates about Jobs/Apple: "What I can't figure out is why he (Steve Jobs) is even trying (to be the CEO of Apple)? He knows he can't win."
Dell about Jobs/Apple: (his quote was made when Apple was struggling). "If I were the CEO of Apple Computers, I would shut it down and return the money to its shareholder".
To some extent all three gentlemen have valid points.
Jobs was a tyrant and literally terrorized his employees. He arbitarily fired them, grossly misusing the US Legal Docrtine of "Employment at Will". Yes, an employee could ride in an elevator with Jobs and at the end of the ride could find herself unemployed. The fellow was an egomaniac. He was so stingy that he attempted to deny parental support to an illegitimate off-spring, until a court ordered him to after a paternity test. The bugger was also a thief, denying the 50% (of the real fee) to his partner Wozniak, who did all the work! Compared to Gates he hardly gave anything to charity.
In summary, Jobs was a visionary and an innovator with hundreds of patents. Too bad, he failed grossly as a human being.
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Hi!
In my life, I have been jealous twice and that too, real jealous.
First time was when I read the book “Made in Japan” by Akio Morita, who was a founder member of SONY and later had to shift to the US to take charge of SONY’s operations there.
The language of the book is neither smooth flowing, nor the one that would make one get interested. But the contents sure were.
Morita describes, that after the second World War, how the conditions existed in Japan and how the group formed by them had to work in the existing conditions.
He describes how he had cut the polythene sheet and by pasting the pieces together one after the another, how a primitive kind of Magnetic tape was made to use with the computers as a storage media.
He also shows his pride when SONY won the entire contract of providing the magnetic tapes required by IBM later in a particular year. My respect to Mr Morita was raised to higher levels.
And I felt jealous. I had never had such and similar atmosphere around me, that could have helped me work in similar circumstances. Imagine the job satisfaction level that those guys must have attained.
Second time I felt jealous, was when I read the book “Pepsi to Apple” by John Sculley”
John Sculley was a nobody who dated Pepsi chief’s step daughter. He managed to get into Pepsi to become it’s marketing chief.
Steve Jobs hunted him and requested him to take over the marketing of Apple, because apple was in the final stages of introducing it’s Mac that was to be made on automated production lines and Steve himself was not a marketing man,
John agreed and joined Apple.
The book describes the scene when the scroll bar was first ever finalized. It also mentions that on a particular day, when John & Steve left Apple office well beyond midnight, Apple’s was the only building lit completely, with all other surrounding buildings in the dark.
What a place it must have been to work for. It made me jealous, Having worked mostly in the Indian cities, I knew the Indian way of stretching the working hours. Here, something similar was happening that had subsequently led to the most appreciated computer ever as of date.
But the company failed in marketing as Apple’s sales started falling. John, who was recruited for marketing purposes managed to put all the blame on Steve and Steve was made to leave Apple.
I could not accept John’s explanation that is available in the book. But my respect for Steve Jobs increased a lot, till I read his own book later.
The book with the title “The Second Coming of Steve Jobs” was narrated by Steve about his experience after leaving Apple.
Although my respect for Steve technical abilities did grow a lot, I wondered, whether I would respect him as a good human being. He surely did earn a lot of curses from very many people, as explained in his own book.
But overall, with Steve Jobs death, the world has lost a great visionary. The man who could make things happen the way he wanted, and manage to rule that part of the world he was always thinking about.
Interested persons MUST read these three books, if not read so far. Even if you have read them years ago, you could still read them again and enjoy. These three books are simply great books that teach you too many things while telling you what had actually happened under those circumstances
That is my opinion and I could be wrong. So, please either read the three books or forget about this mail.
Cheers!
Mangesh
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iMOURN
L.V. Ramanathan
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Farewell Steve!
The death of Steve Jobs is likely to have caused anguish to many among us. Here is one passage of a tribute to him which carried a lot of sense. I reproduce it from
"I’m still far from grasping it, but I can see it’s what we should all grasp. We die. We can leave legacies, but I realise, I want to leave a Legacy of Love! Love for what I do, the people I do it with, and the people I do it for. True Purpose is not about you. It’s about those you touch. And death? Death just comes along and says “Ok, let the other kids play on the swing now”.
Powerful , I thought.
R.Mohan
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Our senior Gursharan Sidhu ('67 Gold Medallist) was a key member of the early Apple organization and the brains behind AppleTalk, the first Apple networking product.
Kalyan
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Steve Jobs, Apple and Gursharan Sidhu
One of the things going around about Sidhu : "One of his classmates went to machine design Prof Rammohan Rao and said he has also made the same mistake as Sidhu, but he got a C, but Sidhu got an A." Came the reply:
"If Sidhu makes a mistake, it is a slip; if you make that mistake, it's a blunder!"
Steve Jobs was born to a Muslim father; his adopted parents were Christians; he himself was Budhist. His 2005 Commencement lecture has flavour of Hindu thought. Atleast he ate food at Hare Krishna institutions, walking up there 6 miles. His life reminded me of Sankaracharya (1st - Adi), who finished off all his mission at the very early age and died at 32 or so.
Why are we all living an existence for existence sake?!! This question comes to me often.
After my retirement in Jan 2012, I want to live for others, failing which I'd be happy to die.
Ahani Ahani Bhoothani
Gachantheeha Yamalayam
Sheshasthavaramichanthi
Kimascharyamathaphparam! (Yaksha Prasnam)
Ranga.
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Ram krishnan has started a discussion:
Steve Jobs' Mantra Rooted in Buddhism: Focus and Simplicity
"As we all mourn the passing away of Steve Jobs, I came across this news item in Yahoo News. That Steve Jobs came to India in 1973 hoping to learn about Buddhism. Here we have one of the richest CEO's trying to be 'simple and different'. And we have all the folks in India wanting to be 'more American'.
I hope this article can be forwarded to the current students of all the IIT's. And may be Prof Baskar, our new Director, will also read this and see how we can include a class or two for the current students on spirituality and the great history of India.
Yes, I am thinking of all the students at all IIT's and other colleges who have committed suicides. Please read the full article in the link Ram Krishnan Long before Steve Jobs became the CEO of Apple and one of the most recognizable figures on the planet, he took a unconventional route to find himself -- a spiritual journey that influenced every step of an unconventional career.
Jobs, who died Wednesday at the age of 56 of pancreatic cancer, was the biological child of two unmarried academics who only consented to signing the papers if the adoptive parents sent him to college.
His adoptive parents sent a young Jobs off to Reed College, an expensive liberal arts school in Oregon, but he dropped out and went to India in the 1973 in search of enlightenment. Jobs and his college friend Daniel Kottke, who later worked for him at Apple, visited Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram.
He returned home to California a Buddhist, complete with a shaved head and traditional Indian clothing and a philosophy that may have shaped much of his corporate values.
Later, he was often seen walking barefoot in his trademark blue jeans around the office and reportedly often said that those around him didn't fully understand his way of thinking.
"I wouldn't say Steve Jobs was a practicing Buddhist," said Robert Thurman, a professor of Buddhist studies at Columbia University, who met Jobs and his "Tibetan buddies" in the 1980s in San Francisco."
Ram Krishnan
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"You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."
I can't find a better introduction for fresher IITians just entering their alma maters.
And from today's New York Times:
The story of Steve Jobs boils down to this: Don’t go with the flow.
Steve Jobs refused to go with the flow. If he saw something that could be made better, smarter or more beautiful, nothing else mattered. Not internal politics, not economic convention, not social graces.
Apple has attained its current astonishing levels of influence and success because it’s nimble. It’s incredibly focused. It’s had stunningly few flops.
And that’s because Mr. Jobs didn’t buy into focus groups, group-think or decision by committee. At its core, Apple existed to execute the visions in his brain. He oversaw every button, every corner, every chime. He lost sleep over the fonts in the menus, the cardboard of the packaging, the color of the power cord.
He wanted to sell a smartphone that had no keyboard, when physical keys were precisely what had made the BlackBerry the most popular smartphone at the time.
Over and over again, he took away our comfy blankets. He took away our floppy drives, our dial-up modems, our camcorder jacks, our non-glossy screens, our Flash, our DVD drives, our removable laptop batteries.
Eventually, of course, most people realized that he was just doing that Steve Jobs thing again: being ahead of his time.
Yes, there are other geniuses. There are other brilliant marketers, designers and business executives. Maybe, once or twice in a million, those skills even coincide in the same person.
But will that person also have the vision?
I can't find a better introduction for fresher IITians just entering their alma maters.
And from today's New York Times:
The story of Steve Jobs boils down to this: Don’t go with the flow.
Steve Jobs refused to go with the flow. If he saw something that could be made better, smarter or more beautiful, nothing else mattered. Not internal politics, not economic convention, not social graces.
Apple has attained its current astonishing levels of influence and success because it’s nimble. It’s incredibly focused. It’s had stunningly few flops.
And that’s because Mr. Jobs didn’t buy into focus groups, group-think or decision by committee. At its core, Apple existed to execute the visions in his brain. He oversaw every button, every corner, every chime. He lost sleep over the fonts in the menus, the cardboard of the packaging, the color of the power cord.
He wanted to sell a smartphone that had no keyboard, when physical keys were precisely what had made the BlackBerry the most popular smartphone at the time.
Over and over again, he took away our comfy blankets. He took away our floppy drives, our dial-up modems, our camcorder jacks, our non-glossy screens, our Flash, our DVD drives, our removable laptop batteries.
Eventually, of course, most people realized that he was just doing that Steve Jobs thing again: being ahead of his time.
Yes, there are other geniuses. There are other brilliant marketers, designers and business executives. Maybe, once or twice in a million, those skills even coincide in the same person.
But will that person also have the vision?
The name “Steve Jobs” may appear on 300 patents, but his gift wasn’t invention. It was seeing the promise in some early, clunky technology — and polishing it, refining it and simplifying it until it becomes a standard component. Like the mouse, menus, windows, the CD-ROM or Wi-Fi.
Even at Apple, is there anyone with the imagination to pluck brilliant, previously unthinkable visions out of the air — and the conviction to see them through with monomaniacal attention to detail?
Suppose there were. Suppose, by some miracle, that some kid in a garage somewhere at this moment possesses the marketing, invention, business and design skills of a Steve Jobs. What are the odds that that same person will be comfortable enough — or maybe uncomfortable enough — to swim upstream, against the currents of social, economic and technological norms, all in pursuit of an unshakable vision?
Zero. The odds are zero.
Mr. Jobs is gone. Everyone who knew him feels that sorrow. But the ripples of that loss will widen in the days, weeks and years to come: to the people in the industries he changed. To his hundreds of millions of customers. And to the billions of people touched more indirectly by the greater changes that Steve Jobs brought about, even if they’re unaware of it.
Kumar Subramaniam
Even at Apple, is there anyone with the imagination to pluck brilliant, previously unthinkable visions out of the air — and the conviction to see them through with monomaniacal attention to detail?
Suppose there were. Suppose, by some miracle, that some kid in a garage somewhere at this moment possesses the marketing, invention, business and design skills of a Steve Jobs. What are the odds that that same person will be comfortable enough — or maybe uncomfortable enough — to swim upstream, against the currents of social, economic and technological norms, all in pursuit of an unshakable vision?
Zero. The odds are zero.
Mr. Jobs is gone. Everyone who knew him feels that sorrow. But the ripples of that loss will widen in the days, weeks and years to come: to the people in the industries he changed. To his hundreds of millions of customers. And to the billions of people touched more indirectly by the greater changes that Steve Jobs brought about, even if they’re unaware of it.
Kumar Subramaniam
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"In the fall of 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club> with Wozniak. He took a job as a technician at Atari <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari> , a manufacturer of popular video games <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_and_video_games> , with the primary intent of saving money for a spiritual retreat to India <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India> .
Jobs then traveled to India to visit Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram with a Reed College friend (and, later, the first Apple employee), Daniel Kottke , in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing.[35] [36] During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics , calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life".[37] He later said that people around him who did not share his countercultural roots could not fully relate to his thinking."
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Jobs about Gates/Microsoft: The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.
Jobs about Michael Dell/Dell Corporation: They make uninnovative beige boxes.
Gates about Jobs/Apple: "What I can't figure out is why he (Steve Jobs) is even trying (to be the CEO of Apple)? He knows he can't win."
Dell about Jobs/Apple: (his quote was made when Apple was struggling). "If I were the CEO of Apple Computers, I would shut it down and return the money to its shareholder".
To some extent all three gentlemen have valid points.
Jobs was a tyrant and literally terrorized his employees. He arbitarily fired them, grossly misusing the US Legal Docrtine of "Employment at Will". Yes, an employee could ride in an elevator with Jobs and at the end of the ride could find herself unemployed. The fellow was an egomaniac. He was so stingy that he attempted to deny parental support to an illegitimate off-spring, until a court ordered him to after a paternity test. The bugger was also a thief, denying the 50% (of the real fee) to his partner Wozniak, who did all the work! Compared to Gates he hardly gave anything to charity.
In summary, Jobs was a visionary and an innovator with hundreds of patents. Too bad, he failed grossly as a human being.
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