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Biographer says Steve Jobs was legitimately infuriated by Android
Biographer Walter Isaacson has disputed Google CEO Larry Page's assertion that Steve Jobs only said disparaging remarks about its Android mobile operating system to rally his own employees.
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Biographer disputes Google CEO’s take on Steve Jobs’ anger at Android
Yesterday, as part of a wider interview with Larry Page, Bloomberg quoted the Google CEO as saying:
I think the Android differences were actually for show. I had a relationship with Steve. I wouldn’t say I spent a lot of time with him over the years, but I saw him periodically. Curiously enough, actually, he requested that meeting. He sent me an e-mail and said: “Hey, you want to get together and chat?” I said, “Sure, I’ll come over.” And we had a very nice talk. We always did when we had a discussion generally….I think that [Anger at Android] served their interests. For a lot of companies, it’s useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe that it’s better to shoot higher. You don’t want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what’s possible and how to make the world better.
Page likely wasn’t present for the behind the scenes remarks from the former Apple CEO, however. Jobs likely put on a more distinguished game face, especially in the last meeting the two had when Jobs was very ill. Also, as a former Apple board member, Jobs’ anger was likely focussed on previous CEO Eric Schmidt.
One person who was present behind the scenes with Jobs was biographer Walter Isaacson who last night disputed Page’s assertion that Jobs anger was “for show”:
Isaacson continued: “It’s almost copied verbatim by Android. And then they licence it around promiscuously. And then Android starts surpassing Apple in market share, and this totally infuriated him. It wasn’t a matter of money. He said: ‘You can’t pay me off, I’m here to destroy you’.”
As for what will happen now that Jobs isn’t around to go ‘thermonuclear’ on Google, Isaacson thinks that Apple CEO Tim Cook will handle things differently. “Tim Cook will settle that lawsuit”, Isaacson added.
In the book, Isaacson quoted Jobs as saying: //
“I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $ 40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”
I offered up one explanation for the differences last night:
Bloomberg reporter misquoted Larry Page. He didn't say Android war was "for show". Page said it is "fo sho" 9to5mac.com/2012/04/04/goo…
—Seth Weintraub (@llsethj) April 05, 2012 Related articles
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Biographer Walter Isaacson on the Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson, author of the Steve Jobs biography, said in the past he omitted certain details and even referred to the book as a “first or second draft” when discussing plans to expand it with an addendum in a future re-release of the best-selling bio. While we have heard nothing official on those plans since, Isaacson just published a lengthy piece for Harvard Business Review titled “The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs.”
As noted by Isaacson, he was inspired to write the piece after many attempted to draw management lessons from the biography that he claims, “fixate[s] too much on the rough edges” of Jobs’ personality. Most of the piece focuses on Jobs’ management style, but Isaacson also once again talked about the late chief’s desire to produce “magical tools for digital photography and ways to make television simple and personal.” Here is an excerpt:
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One of the last times I saw him, after I had finished writing most of the book, I asked him again about his tendency to be rough on people. “Look at the results,” he replied. “These are all smart people I work with, and any of them could get a top job at another place if they were truly feeling brutalized. But they don’t.” Then he paused for a few moments and said, almost wistfully, “And we got some amazing things done.”… Even when he was dying, Jobs set his sights on disrupting more industries. He had a vision for turning textbooks into artistic creations that anyone with a Mac could fashion and craft—something that Apple announced in January 2012. He also dreamed of producing magical tools for digital photography and ways to make television simple and personal. Those, no doubt, will come as well. And even though he will not be around to see them to fruition, his rules for success helped him build a company that not only will create these and other disruptive products, but will stand at the intersection of creativity and technology as long as Jobs’s DNA persists at its core.
Google CEO Larry Page says Steve Jobs’ fury over Android was just to rally troops
In a recent interview with Bloomberg Businessweek Chief Executive Officer of Google Larry Page talked at length about his new role as CEO and his plans for the future of Android, Motorola, and the rest of the company. Much the interview revolved around Android and Google’s relationship with other companies, and towards the end Page was asked about his relationship with Steve Jobs. He was also asked about the state of Android tablets and his thoughts on Apple’s recently announced dividend.
When the interviewer mentioned Google and Jobs had their “differences” regarding Android, presumably referring to Steve Jobs’ claims that Android is a “stolen product”, Page claimed Jobs’ anger towards Android and Google was “actually for show”:
I think the Android differences were actually for show. I had a relationship with Steve. I wouldn’t say I spent a lot of time with him over the years, but I saw him periodically. Curiously enough, actually, he requested that meeting. He sent me an e-mail and said: “Hey, you want to get together and chat?” I said, “Sure, I’ll come over.” And we had a very nice talk. We always did when we had a discussion generally… He was quite sick. I took it as an honor that he wanted to spend some time with me. I figured he wanted to spend time with his family at that point. He had a lot of interesting insights about how to run a company and that was pretty much what we discussed.
He continued when asked to elaborate on his “for show” comment:
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I think that served their interests. For a lot of companies, it’s useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe that it’s better to shoot higher. You don’t want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what’s possible and how to make the world better.
Page’s comments are referring to Steve Jobs’ comments originally documented in Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography where the Apple CEO claimed he’d spend his last dying breath and “every penny of Apple’s $ 40 billion in the bank” to destroy Android. Jobs claimed Google was “using our ideas in Android”. If you believe Page, the whole thing was simply to rally the troops at Apple. Despite Page’s view of the situation, Apple is clearly still willing to spend its money on lawyers to fight Android vendors in courts across the globe. However, recent reports suggested Apple is interested in settling for as much as a $ 15 royalty per Android device with some of its competitors.
As for if Apple’s new dividend and share repurchase program has inspired Page to rethink his strategy:
I think Apple has more cash than we do—
Cross-posted on 9to5Google.com
Ashton Kutcher prepares to play Steve Jobs
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iPad publication The Daily reports that Ashton Kutcher is whole-heartedly preparing to play former Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Producer Mark Hulme of Five Star Feature Films:
"He is already meeting with folks that knew Steve Jobs. He's working with professionals to get inside the voice. He's letting his hair grow out. I understand he's canceled all meetings and actually canceled all other projects."
News of Kutcher's new gig was first announced by Variety on April 1st, prompting many to question if the notorious prankster had pulled a fast one. But it is a real project. The Daily reports that the indie film, which is not based on Isaacson's bio, will simply be called "Jobs."
Ashton Kutcher prepares to play Steve Jobs originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Kutcher thinks Steve Jobs role was meant for him, film script called ‘award worthy’
Ashton Kutcher's starring role in a new, independent movie based on the early years of the career of Steve Jobs is said to be based on an "award-worthy" script that Kutcher is determined to help turn into a breakthrough dramatic performance.
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FT profiles Jony Ive: transformational designer who understood the politics of Jobs
In a Financial Times story about Apple’s senior vice president of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive “emerging from Jobs’ shadow”, we get a few interesting stories from ex-Apple employees regarding the design guru’s work ethic. While one anonymous ex-Apple employee told the publication Ive’s “main talent was his ability to manage his relationship with Jobs”, Path CEO and former Apple employee Dave Morin remembers Ive the perfectionist.
Morin told a story of Ive spending three months adjusting the MacBook design to ensure it could be easily operated with one finger:
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“We have insane amounts of respect for him,” says Dave Morin, chief executive of Path and a former Apple employee, who recalls attending a meeting at Apple that Sir Jonathan conducted. An upset employee complained about an aspect of the MacBook laptop that made it difficult for disabled people to use. Sir Jonathan explained that the team had gone to great lengths to design every feature so that a person could operate the machine with one finger, including testing and adjusting the weight of the screen for three months so that it could be opened, with one finger, without tipping the laptop over.
Sir Jonathan’s portrait currently hangs at the Path offices in a conference room named after the design chief. Morin added, “great products come from great partnerships between a designer and an entrepreneur”, presumably referring to Ive’s close relationship with Jobs who Ive called his closest and “most loyal friend”.
Speaking about Ive’s relationship with Jobs, the anonymous Apple employee claimed Ive often exploited his the partnership “for his own advancement.” He continued:
“Jony’s a very, very political person… You do not want to cross him or you lose pretty much everything.”
CEO of Frog Design Mark Rolston suggested to FT that not everyone sees Ive as a transformational designer:
“There are two schools of thought on this… One is that he is a transformational designer, someone who’s transcended typical notions of quality and brought something really special to the market. A more complicated read is that he was the right man at the right time.”
Though Ive told Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson “it hurts when he [Jobs] takes credit for one of my designs”, he also explained his ideas “would have been completely irrelevant, nowhere, if Steve hadn’t been here to push us, work with us, and drive us through all the resistance to turn our ideas into products.”
Ive recently gave a rare interview about his design process with with the Evening Standard.
Ashton Kutcher to Play Steve Jobs in Indie Film?
Ashton Kutcher will reportedly play Steve Jobs in the upcoming indie film entitled, 'Jobs'.
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Ashton Kutcher reportedly cast as Steve Jobs for indie biopic
Actor Ashton Kutcher has been cast to play late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in an independent film about his growth from "wayward hippie" to entrepreneur, according to a new report.
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Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs in the movie?
Here’s one we’re a bit dubious of because of the date: Variety Magazine says that Twitter magnate Ashton Kutcher is signed on to play Steve Jobs in the upcoming biopic movie:
Ashton Kutcher is attached to play Steve Jobs in the indie pic “Jobs,” which Joshua Michael Stern (“Swing Vote”) will direct from a script by Matt Whiteley.
The film will chronicle Steve Jobs from wayward hippie to co-founder of Apple, where he became one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of our time.
Sony is making the movie which will be directed by Joshua Michael Stern. It is scheduled to start production in May. //
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