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> That is what I remember most about Steve, that he simply loved designing and shipping products
Nothing new. The rest of the article is ego-boosting reminiscence.
Edit: typo
> That is what I remember most about Steve, that he simply loved designing and shipping products
Nothing new. The rest of the article is ego-boosting reminiscence.
Edit: typo
But I find people, especially those who only consider the engineering parts of products to take this view.
So did Larry Ellison, Bill Gates, Larry Page, Sergiy Brin, Jerry Yang etc. (steve case, fecesbook, myspace and other shitty cut-n-paste non-algorithmic efforts were underway many knew how to cut and paste myspace text entry boxes to spy on girls and call users "dumb fucks" in the AOL/Iomega space).
Having said that, iMovie was good, iPhoto was okay-to-good, but iTunes has always been awful.
I've never understood why it was so badly designed. (And it's getting worse, by all accounts.)
Edit: Not Sony.
The end result being that they completely missed the boat on the then-nascent digital music market, and less than 15 years later, have spun off most of those brands and hardware-wise, Playstation aside, are limited to making (very nice) camera sensors for iPhones.
Example: "As a team member, not as CEO. He quietly left his CEO hat by the door, and collaborated with us. He was basically the Product Manager for all of the products I worked on, even though there eventually were other people with that title, who usually weren't allowed in the room :)"
Self-contradictory. He made himself de facto Product Manager — more powerful actually, since other Product Managers "usually weren't allowed in the room". Virtually by definition, the top boss is whatever manager they decide to be.
(Did the author ever analyze the power relations in each meeting? Would the boss even tolerate someone who was too good at it?)