Posted on 04/08/2019 10:37:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
Henry Ford was a total a$$hole..................
“What was so revolutionary about the Macintosh really? Apple didn’t invent the GUI. Xerox did many years before.”
A preposterous oversimplification. It’s what Apple did with the GUI that matters. Xerox dabbled with it on a main frame or maybe a mini but didn’t have any idea of what they actually had. Jobs had a talent for knowing what people would want before they did, no small thing. Apple has never recovered from the loss imho.
This guy always writes interesting stuff on creativity and the like but I’ve never been able to figure out what he actually did or does. “Chief Evangelist?” What’s he preaching and who to?
It’s a mistake to undervalue the top 20%, but it’s also a mistake to assume everyone else is garbage and treat them as such.
I look pretty crappy sometimes.
This is also how Musk gets things done. He’ll have one genius work on a very difficult problem rather than twenty average people.
Sort of like Gates did DOS, right Okie?
The goal of the Macintosh Division was preventing totalitarianism and worldwide domination by IBM.
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Back then, Microsoft was getting that job done.
You’re exactly right of course, and at least modern business processes like QFD reflect that. The only point of some departure is when you have a new potentially disruptive technology that sometimes provides benefits that today’s customers can’t yet define. For example, when audio tape was in vogue, the most common request was for tapes that didn’t jam. They were too locked into “fast forward/rewind” mentality to realize that random access was a high value feature until they saw the demonstration of a CD, and instantly it became one of the highest-ranked customer needs.
But you’re right- you have to learn to ask the right question, sometimes pushing technology “out” as long as you bring the voice of the customer “back”.
Not for innovation of an entirely new paradigm. The public has no idea what it wants until someone invents what it WILL want and shows it to them. That’s what Steve Jobs excelled at doing. . . and why he is credited with completely re-inventing five industries through innovation.
“There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.” — Steve Jobs, January 2007
You need a “Bean Counter”
To make it happen Faster!
Just like Gates. Gates didn't invent MS-DOS. He merely repackaged it and sold it.
Difference being Gates isn’t worshiped.
Seems to be a requirement........................
Being a visionary got him started
Being an asshole kept the company moving forward
Have you worked for the DoD lately?
> I remember meeting him after he was fired from 4th Dimension, the database company, I kept thinking this “guys is trying to sell himself by bitching about others”. At this meeting he was complaining about how bad the founders of the company had been...
Hmmm, I’ve met Jobs, Kawasaki, and the Founder of 4D. They’re not evil, but just people trying to figure out the next thing to do. I liked the founder of 4D best. ;-)
Xerox had it on a mini. We sold them in our store
What Jobs did right was not rest on his laurels. I bet the phrase “But we’ve never done it that way” ever crossed his lips.
Except at church. You have to say it at church
BS to your baloney. Everything Kawasaki wrote is exactly correct. I have experienced all of what he mentioned myself.
I’ve never owned an Apple product and I did not like Steve jobs. But what Kawasaki writes matches my own experience in tech R&D.
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