The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Steve Jobs reads as The Visionary because his defining gift was anticipating what consumers wanted before they knew it themselves, translating abstract technological possibility into objects of cultural desire. At Apple he drove the creation of the Macintosh, the iMac, the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, and the iPad, each redefining its category.
“He's really giving us a description of the why behind the book why is this important to pick up and to read and to study? This is a book about the roller coaster life and searing intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries personal computing, animated movies…”
“The McIntosh starts strong and then sails plummet. It was like underpowered. There's some design decisions that don't wind up working out. And so I was thinking about that as I was reading the excerpts from this interview that are reprinted in this book. And so we see the premonition.”
“Can we make any money? It was a reminder of how different their desires were. Jobs put his hand on Allison's left shoulder, pulled him close, so close that their noses almost touched, and said, Larry, this is why it's really important that I'm your friend. You don't need any more money.”
“Not that he got 56 healthy years. He was in pain, and I'm going to read this to you now. By the beginning of 2008, it was clear that jobs and his doctors, that the cancer was spreading. He was also being treated for pain, usually with morphine.”
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