Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series

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Recommends GeekyBear · 2021-12 · on “Apple and NeXT, 25 Years Ago this week”

Another interesting resource is Jobs speaking at the MIT Sloan School of Management while NeXT was in the process of pivoting to enterprise rapid application development. [this video]

Cites GeekyBear · 2018-04 · on “What did Alan Kay and Steve Jobs talk about at the 2007 iPhone keynote?”

>that was something I respected about Jobs (and a few other industrialists) -- the combined ability to understand new technology, visualize how it could be brought to a broad market, and then do it successfully Jobs participated in a Q&A at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1992, and one of the topics he discussed were the marketing pivots needed for the Mac and Next once he figured out what real world tasks those platforms excelled at that their competition did not. (desktop publishing and enterprise rapid application development) Video of the talk has recently been made available. [this video]

Cites sah2ed · 2018-07 · on “The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT”

> I fought with him over stores as did virtually everyone on the board of Apple, and it turned out he was right. He actually goes into depth about why Apple stores were necessary in a talk he did at MIT in 1992 [0][1]. Was it that he was not nearly as articulate in person with his team, as he was in this video? EDIT: Luckily, the transcript is available. The money quote is: " ... current distribution channels for the computer industry over the last several years have lost their ability to create demand. They can fulfill demand, but they can't create it. If a new product comes out, you're lucky if you can find somebody at the computer store that even knows how to demo it. So the more innovati

Cites mandeepj · 2018-10 · on “67% of workers earning over $100k see themselves quitting in the next 6 months”

Consulting is like building a castle and giving it away to someone else to rule and enjoy the fruits. I refuse to do it now. With each new contract, you start from scratch, again. After a while, you'll realize - you are just hitting a reset switch on your career, with each new contract that you pick up. I'm glad I share my thoughts with this very smart man - [this video]

Cites panax · 2018-10 · on “OOP Is Dead, Long Live OOP”

Steve said it too, but he said it like he was proud of it: [this video] "You need all the objects that come with it to make it work"

Cites newnewpdro · 2018-12 · on “Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess”

In a talk Jobs gave at MIT [1] he described the NeXT automated manufacturing facility in a positive light. I can only begin to imagine how much better it could be done today than back then. Articles like this one like to point out the number of people involved in the Chinese iPhone manufacturing as if that's somehow indicative of something other than simply using cheap labor instead of automation. If we wanted to manufacture this stuff in the USA, we definitely could, and it would be done using fewer people through automation. My understanding is the core reason we don't do manufacturing here anymore is it's a lot cheaper to do it where industrial pollution goes unchecked, where regulatory b

Cites BenoitEssiambre · 2020-06 · on “The End of OS X”

This somewhat echoes some of Steve Job's own complaints about the Apple he was kicked out of: [this video] Also note that at the time he was creating a NeXT, a Unix company.

Cites gofreddygo · 2023-02 · on “Consultancies know less than they claim and cost more than they seem to”

Instantly reminded me of Steve Jobs' quip and rant [1] on consulting and consultants. (skip to 15:20 if link doesn't automatically) [this video]