Investment and Employment in the Internet Age? | 20 comments (20 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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Three people wrote the iMac operating system and (literally) saved Apple from bankruptcy.

Wot?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Aug 20th, 2013 at 12:23:20 PM EST
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Yup. Did it back in '98.

Apple under Jobs routinely assigned hardly anybody to "major" projects. Example, two (!) people implemented Safari on the iPad.

Jobs was an narcissistic, design obsessed, idea-thief, and control freak but he was a competent, narcissistic, design obsessed, idea-thief, and control freak putting him light years ahead of 99% of the upper management dickweeds infesting Silicon Valley. And part of his competence was understanding how to motivate engineers.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Tue Aug 20th, 2013 at 12:45:55 PM EST
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Which operating system are you talking about?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Aug 20th, 2013 at 01:13:13 PM EST
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Don't remember the name. Ran across the factoid in a book on Apple and it stuck in my head.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Wed Aug 21st, 2013 at 10:04:55 AM EST
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May I submit that he chose the wrong two to implement iTunes?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Aug 22nd, 2013 at 08:23:58 PM EST
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Investment and Employment in the Internet Age? | 20 comments (20 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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