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Nice Animated Tribute to Steve Jobs
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Very nice tribute, indeed. Thanks for posting it, Craig.
I was thinking about Steve Jobs today, and one thing that crossed my mind is that had he been born, say, ten years earlier or later, we probably would never have heard of him, nor have many of the toys that we enjoy. Kind of like “It’s a Wonderful Life”, but with Steve Jobs in the part played by Jimmy Stewart.
Fifty-six is simply too young to die. It’s very sad.
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[Jim Glickert] “I was thinking about Steve Jobs today, and one thing that crossed my mind is that had he been born, say, ten years earlier or later, we probably would never have heard of him, nor have many of the toys that we enjoy.”
I invented nothing new.
I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.
So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable.
To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
-Henry Ford
Best,
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I’ve generally been carefull to describe Apple/Jobs as an aggregator. They then synthesis new products from that. Very much a dialectic of sorts.
Apple surveyed the MP3 field, smartphone field, netbook field, observed how they were used, synthesized that into new products. Personally I feel that’s what they’ve done with FCPX. For them, when the “consult” it does not mean simply “what to you want” but to examine what people are doing, how they do it and that results in their direction on how to do it a new/better way.
I think this is Jobs’ genius. This is the spirit I hoped he imbued in Apple. This is what I hope continues in Apple’s collecting consciousness.
I’m honestly not sure people understand this which is why they don’t get how and why Apple develops products whether it’s iPods or FCPX.
I also think Jobs was inherently a “populist.” Unfortunately people confuse that with “consumer” or maybe “mass” consumption.
I think the biggest shift from early Jobs to post NeXT Jobs was how to achieve “populist” technology. I think his original approach was “trickle down” in that expensive products would start “on high” and eventually grow in acceptance. After NeXT technological success but market failure, he shifted. He/Apple targeted the broadest markets and allowed “trickle up” instead. Individuals may not like Apple’s approach but it comes with the “spirit” that lives within Jobs/Apple. I also suspect that Jobs’ Buddhism had a significant impact on his approach to life and to business as well. I think it may explain, in part, Apple’s “behavior” as a company.
I think Jobs himself attempted to be an “aggregator” and used a “collective consciousness” approach to business. I that’s part of the “magic” that makes some some of us attracted to Apple products and I also think that’s part of why people have such a strong ineffable connection to Jobs, Apple, their products.
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[Craig Seeman] “Apple surveyed the MP3 field, smartphone field, netbook field, observed how they were used, synthesized that into new products. Personally I feel that’s what they’ve done with FCPX. For them, when the “consult” it does not mean simply “what to you want” but to examine what people are doing, how they do it and that results in their direction on how to do it a new/better way.”
[Craig Seeman] “I’m honestly not sure people understand this which is why they don’t get how and why Apple develops products whether it’s iPods or FCPX.”
I agree with your analysis, Craig. The problem is that iPods and FCP serve very different markets. It remains to be seen if the development strategies that enabled Apple to dominate the consumer technology market will also work in enterprise-class business markets.
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[David Lawrence] “The problem is that iPods and FCP serve very different markets. It remains to be seen if the development strategies that enabled Apple to dominate the consumer technology market will also work in enterprise-class business markets.”
But I don’t think Apple perceives “markets” that way. For them it’s not a right or wrong or this market or that but a business methodology. They may well argue that the mass appeal of iPhones and iPads have resulted in their creep into the enterprise market. Of course seeing that potential and demand has resulted in changes so that they can be securely used in that environment.
I suspect Apple envisions the same methodology. Wide acceptance of FCPX (not what some would consider “pros” here) and, between third party support and changes made by Apple (as per above security issues) it will grow into the “professional” market.
Of course this doesn’t guarantee it will work. Apple has certainly had its failures . . . which they almost always recover from by taking yet another approach.
This is why I mention their “trickle up” approach. They will not “target” the “pro” market so much as aim for the broadest and grow into it as direction indicates. That direction does mean they will make changes just as the iDevices creep into enterprise.
It’s very organic. Of course an organism may grow slowly and it may not even grow in the ways some of use want it to.
I do suspect this is part of Jobs’ takeaway from NeXT’s failure. I do think Jobs’ change in approach which includes both a philosophical and maybe religious level has something to do with Apple going being a tech giant but a company that is neck and neck with Exxon in market cap..
Apple is not going to change their DNA, their spirit, their fundamental business philosophy especially since it’s guided them well and even allowed them to both weather and learn from their occasional failures.
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Really great but wasn’t Mr. Jobs a Buddhist? That makes the ending a bit inappropriate.
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[Bill Hall] “wasn’t Mr. Jobs a Buddhist?”
Yes. I don’t think most people know this. I also think it impacted how he ran Apple. See the other posts in this thread relating to that and how I think it had to do with changes in Apple during his “second round” post NeXT. His 1991 wedding to Laurene Powell was a Buddhist ceremony from what I understand so I don’t doubt his religion was very much apart of his approach to life and business.
I have a hunch is authorized biography will explain a lot.
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Apple and Buddhism?
Can anybody explain the relation.
I live in a Buddhist country and, believe me, I don’t see much the relation.
About the end of the clip, if he was a Buddhist, probably he would had just smiled.
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[Rafael Amador] “Apple and Buddhism?
Can anybody explain the relation.
I live in a Buddhist country and, believe me, I don’t see much the relation.”There are many variants of Buddhism just like any other belief system. Generally people who “convert” tend to believe in ways not quite the same as those born into a belief system.
Basically Jobs’ method of management and decision making seem different and it’s infused into the company and may well be why such a thing as Apple University exists.
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Buddha proposal is about reaching enlightenment by getting over our terrene desires. Is a Godless religion; a non-imposition philosophy, prone to pity, that considers every little thing in nature being a part of a whole.
Apple Computers was a company dedicated to cover basic human needs (tools: computers and productive software).
Yes; we could say that his philosophy was ZEN inspired (patience, “on-the-job-seek of perfection, humility and utility), and his discourse was about openness and commitment.Apple’s line is more about pushing desires (beauty, exclusivity, distinction) and creating needs. Fashion is the hook now. His discourse is messianic, exclusionist and has abandoned the Zen inspiration breaking one of the pillars: linage and ancestors. Apple has renegade of them.
Their current account has suddenly enlightened them, so now they are ready to share a bit of that “light” with everybody. But only at the Apps Store.[Craig Seeman] “Basically Jobs’ method of management and decision making seem different and it’s infused into the company and may well be why such a thing as Apple University exists.”
An sleeping program undusted in just 24 hours (780.000.000 results in Google).
Great. If students fallows Jobs example, they will quite short after starting.
Steve Jobs is a great asset and have to keep producing
Probably they’ll be able to put his management techniques in papers, but they will leave the best of that guy out of the book..
rafael
PS: Lets don’t mistake Steve Jobs with Apple.
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