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Steve Jobs on the greed and outlandish profits that ruined Apple
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history repeating itself pretty much
This is describing ALL of corporate culture these days. We’ve slipped into Potterville, an awful, vicious place.
>One of the most profitable companies for 4 years, and what that cost them was their future
A little reflective of the state of capitalism in general
This is after Jobs left Apple for the first time and pre iPhone. The nextStep background is telling because that’s where he based the vision of object oriented UI he brought to the table for OSX.
Considering the current state of affairs and the state of Apple, is this somewhat ironic?
Imagine if you went out and bought some Apple stock on the day this was filmed and still have it.
There is a shift that happens in all great companies especially when the barriers to entry become higher or heavily regulated which protects incumbents. The mindset shifts from value creation for your customers to value extraction. The conversations at even the lowest levels culturally shift from let’s win by building the best product by adding features customers will like or are asking for to let’s develop features that will capture more wallet share from customers.
“The new iPhone 15, with Titanium”
lmao, he ain’t wrong that they don’t know how tf to innovate these days.
This the guy that was leasing new cars every 6 months and keeping the paper dealer plates on them so he could get away with parking in handicap parking spaces?
Not a fan of Jobs, but he’s right here.
I would love to have seen him review this interview, while watching it in the $1m media room on his $120m mega yacht and weigh in on how much he got paid.
Reddit absolutely shits on this guy any though he was a genius to re-orchestrate Apple into a profitable company that creates products that work extremely well. Like he said, computers should be an “appliance” for people. My Apple products are tools I utilize daily and my return on initial investment is huge. Like it or not, he is an outstanding visionary leader and designer.
Jobs was famously a jerk, but this is spot-on.
It’s only greed when someone else makes decisions. When it’s his idea it’s innovative
Dude was smart enough to predict this but wasn’t smart enough to take doctors advice. What a shame.
whats up with his glasses
This is the same greedy slime ball that withheld reward money from Wozniak who solved the Breakout Atari issue. I hate how some people put Jobs on a pedestal as some great iconic figure.
His interview about sales and marketing people pushing out innovators until the company forgets their identity is one of my favorite videos of all time.
This butthole is just spitting sour grapes after losing a corporate battle.
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a37752/steve-jobs-man-in-the-machine/
>Impressed with the work, Jobs told Woz that they got paid $700 for their efforts and wrote him a check for $350. In reality, Jobs had received a $7,000 bonus. “That hurt, because we were friends,” Woz says. “If he had said, ‘I need the money,’ I would have said, ‘Take it all.’
Read the article, those guys the beat Jobs in the boardroom at least only screwed over a business rival. Jobs was worth 10 billion when he died, and screwed over Woz repeatedly… the guy who actually invented the Macintosh computer.
was steve jobs a visionary? Yes. Was he also a total complete piece of shit, you betcha. Hypocrite? 100% This guy should not be held up on some pedestal, but his techniques should def be studied.
My biggest beef with him was how he handled his sickness. He believed carrots and meditation would cure his very very curable cancer. And then when it had progressed and he changed his mind, he used his wealth to abuse loopholes in the organ donor system to benefit himself.
Edit: I’ll change curable to treatable. Jobs had a rare form of cancer that is much more treatable when discovered early and his was.
I call them the money men. They don’t contribute to the long term financial health of a company. They’re leeches that move from company to company and siphon out its lifeblood by burning through their consumer trust like a fuel. The only way their hosts survive is by feasting on other companies and creating an effective monopoly, and force consumers to settle for inferior products or be treated like shit because they don’t have a choice.
The balancing act between visionary-innovators setting up the long-term strategy of a company and bean counters keeping current finances in order has always been a very difficult task.
I used to be a Steve and Apple hater growing up. But nowadays I wish that Steve was still with us and leading Apple. I wonder what the difference would have been if he hadn’t passed. I wonder what he would think if he saw the current state of Apple!
[Nerd Jesus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1liOZ1fW1F8)
Just received notification from Apple yesterday that our Plus subscription is going up 45% next month
Same shit is happening again now that he’s gone
Literally an exemplary article on this on the front page of reddit right now:
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/17s5ivc/8gb_ram_in_m3_macbook_pro_proves_the_bottleneck/
I hope Apple never reaches that point. They have been doing a good job so far by not being profit hungry and greedy.
Fucking Apple Remote can kiss my ass🌌.
Aww, little Steve “Ireland Tax Shelter” Jobs judging his predecessors.
He didn’t have any problems with the outlandish profits of Apple after he returned. Under his tenure they sued like crazy to protect their profits while taking a massive cut of App Store sales. Sorry Steve, I think this was just sour grapes.
That said, they did introduce revolutionary products at least, unlike 90’s era Apple.
This dude just repeated the same thing 3 times in a row with slightly different wording each time.
The bastard leased a new luxury car every month or so, so he didn’t have to register his cars, so he could park in handicapped spaces without repercussions. Fuck Steve.
Now Apple is back doing it again with 8GB RAM and 512GB storage and the base M3 chips on a $1,600 MacBook “Pro”. Upgrading to 16GB and 1TB is another $400, specs you can get in a $600 Windows laptop.
God damn he rode Scully ragged in these interviews
Steve Jobs talking values is rich. That guy had zero morals.
Profit making mindset is self destructive. Greed leads to fall consequently if there’s no vision to work for millions of people around.
It’s pretty fuckin’ rich to hear *Steve Jobs* pontificate about ethics. Get the fuck outta here.