Steve Jobs is still parking in handicapped spaces at Apple...“Mercedes? Check. No license plate? Check. Handicap spot? Yep, this is Steve Jobs’ car!!!”
Apple doesn't need Jobs anymore. He's established three sound businesses -- Mac, iPod and the iPhone -- and the company knows how to execute his fanatical devotion to design and usability. There's a stable management team in place, and they know what they're doing."
Apparently, Steve Jobs still has what it takes to sell Apple - even to battered-down Wall Street.So, to make sure that investors don’t start getting too nervous about the outlook for Apple, the company called in the big guy - Mr. Jobs himself - to get on the line with analysts during the company’s quarterly earnings call...
Jobs was trying to make the case that this position was an advantage for NeXT, but in hindsight, it serves as an explanation for why NeXT never really took off. There was no market for what they were trying to sell.
The bottom line for NeXT was that they had very good products that no one wanted to buy. Jobs’s description in this video of where NeXT’s computers stood compared to the rest of the industry is, as usual, very astute. On the one hand NeXT offered usability and consumer software like Macs and PCs, but on the other hand, UNIX workstation-style
The obvious rush at the conference where Steve jobs was going to announce the new laptops made out of aluminum was noteworthy, The guy sitting next to me hushes for his pen while a sweat from his forehead escapes the groud and hits a lady passing by.. she doesent notice the poor sweat for she is waiting for the Lord...
After recent questions about Steve Jobs' health rekindle an old dilemma for Apple: If he were to leave (for any reason), who could possibly fill his shoes?
The rare appearance by the Apple CEO produces a few more pithy quotes than you would usually hear on an earnings call. Here are a few...
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance on the company's fourth quarter conference call Tuesday and fielded a variety of questions that revealed further insight into company's ongoing product strategies.
During Apple's earnings call, Steve Jobs admitted that Apple is going to "wait and see" how the netbook evolves and "we've got some pretty interesting ideas if it does evolve." MacBook touch tablet?