Having read his excellent bio by W. Isaacson, I’m sure Steve Jobs was a piece of work. Yet next to him, today’s billionaire visionaries seem like little children. He had taste and a sense of humor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk-9Fd2mEnI

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Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series

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#SteveJobs ia razona coreta cuando el ia es tan oseseda ambos de la estetica e de la funsionalisme de la cosas.

A esta dias, on pote trova produidas ce ave multe defetos en cada parte. E lor developores no es interesada par fisa los.

Steve Jobs ia mori, e esta mundo es plen de mediocria.

    

Veteran tech writer and podcaster Kara Swisher -- who did an excellent series for CNN about life extension titled, "Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever," -- has stated publicly that the people buying CNN are incompetent and that she doesn't want to work for them.
(Tech oligarch Larry Ellison's bid to buy CNN was approved by the Trump regime last week.)
In episode 5 of her series, Swisher characterizes the major tech billionaires and trillionaire Elon Musk as wanting to cheat death using their power and fortunes as they cheat the rest of us out of a habitable planet. (I'm paraphrasing.)
If you can find her series to watch, I highly recommend it.
https://www.newsweek.com/kara-swisher-live-forever-longevity-interview-newsmakers-11895057
#Longevity #TechOligarchs #LateStageCapitalism #KaraSwisher #Musk #SteveJobs
Kara Swisher: The Woman Who Wants to Live Forever (But Doesn’t, Really)

The journalist and podcaster explores longevity in her new docuseries, and pondered mortality in a conversation with Newsweek.

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Примечательный исторический артефакт корпоративной культуры начала 1980-х годов: письмо, в котором Стив Джобс, занимавший тогда пост председателя совета директоров Apple, официально и предельно вежливо отказывает частному лицу в просьбе об автографе.

Если смотреть на этот документ через призму социальной сатиры и анализа бюрократических практик, он превращается в почти безупречный пример институциональной иронии.

Формально Джобс отвечает отказом. Однако сам отказ оформлен в виде письма, которое он собственноручно подписывает. В результате возникает любопытный парадокс: сообщая о невозможности предоставить автограф, он одновременно оставляет на документе именно ту самую подпись, которую и стремился получить адресат.

В этом заключается вся прелесть ситуации. Вместо того чтобы просто расписаться на фотографии или чистом листе бумаги, Джобс переводит запрос в пространство официальной переписки. Здесь его подпись перестаёт быть сувениром для поклонника и превращается в элемент делового документооборота — в своеобразную «авторизацию отказа». С юридической и корпоративной точки зрения просьба отклонена, но с фактической — заявитель всё равно получает документ с подлинной подписью Джобса.

#История #Apple #SteveJobs

Finished reading Steve Jobs in Exile — The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary by Geoffrey Cain.

Finishing the acknowledgements at the end and reading the penultimate paragraph of the book.

I just happen to be finishing reading while at our friends’s cabin on the shores of Swan Lake very near Lake Vermillion where most of the book was written. A wonderful place to be a writer.

#Books #Bookstodon #LakeVermillion #Minnesota #Apple #SteveJobs #SwanLake

Reading Steve Jobs in Exile — The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary by Geoffrey Cain.

Just started chapter 25, which begins in August 1996. Apple CEO Gil Amelio is struggling with what to do with Copland, their latest OS in development.

Found a bit of an anachronism:

“But without a modern OS, Apple users were left stuck in the dark ages, facing the spinning beach ball of death every time an application froze.“

#Apple #ComputerHistory #SteveJobs

Full Speed PlayStation 1 emulation in 1999 - Connectix Virtual Game Station | MVG

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Actually pretty impressive how fast people implemented emulation in the 90ties like ZSNES and Bleem.
#stevejobs #playstation #apple #retrogaming

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Steve Jobs Announcing a PlayStation Emulator for the Mac (Macworld 1999)

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Apple pushed him out. He built NeXT. He turned Pixar into a cinema giant. Then Apple brought him back. What followed was one of the greatest comebacks in business history
#SteveJobs #AppleHistory #Pixar #books #bookreviews
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Steve Jobs Biography by Walter Isaacson: The Man Behind the Machine

A definitive biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, exploring Apple’s rise, visionary innovation, and the complex life of its iconic co-founder.