* Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> [2007-10-16 06:40]: > The blog was all about how a badly designed chart was a > great insight into Steve's, because Steve couldn't possibly > have been careless. > > Steve's all ABOUT impulsive behavior, and off-the-cuff > thinking, and making snap decisions seem like they're a > master plan.
There’s a difference between making mistaken gut-feel tech bets and being careless in putting on a keynote show. Those keynotes are prepared and rehearsed as well as any Broadway show is. > He makes decisions, he's got people to take care of the > details. And it works, because he's competing against companies > where they don't do that. That's rather too simplistic. I think the reason Apple works is because they're the Disneyland of computing. Just listen to the clips of Steve Jobs in Macworld's stickergate summary: http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macword/2007/08/stickergate/ (There are two MP3s linked directly from the post.) Apple, starting with Jobs, see their business as entertaining their customers. They care about putting on a great show. Most computer companies see their business as utility making, and corporation-oriented utility making to boot. People respond to that. Hell, I do too. I certainly like Apple better than the rest of the pack, for caring more than the rest about things I personally also care about. I just know better than to think this means they care about me, or you, or any of their individual users, any more than cares any other big technology company. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
