As Much As I Rip on Apple…


RIP Steve Jobs: 1955-2011

You have to admit that Steve Jobs was a genius – a brilliant innovator and businessman. He took a failing company and transformed it into an innovative, popular and technologically influential force that is received positively by almost everyone.

As much as I rip on Apple and their fanboys, you have to respect what the company has done along the way and how they have influenced the tech industry. They really know how to market products and sell the shit out of them.

Here is one brilliant video of Jobs in 1997, before Apple came all the way back to become a market leader. There’s something about this video that I just find interesting. Some guy is ripping Jobs apart and his response is just brilliant.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE

Two quotes to remember, which every software and hardware company should go by:

“You can only please some of the people some of the time.”

“You’ve gotta start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to sell it.

PS – what’s the over/under Apple stock goes down more than 10% tomorrow? I’m going over. -11%