Comments on: Untold stories about Steve Jobs: Hiding the Porsches, making Gates wait, and more http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/ Apple and Mac News Wed, 22 May 2013 18:46:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Derek Currie http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1060968 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:44:46 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1060968 In these stand-offs between the entrepreneur and the marketing guy, I tend to find the Schmooze Factor wins. This of course is self-destructive and puts the company on the roller coaster to demise. The end of the roller coaster was the $1 Billion in warehoused, unsold Mac Performas due to Marketing-As-Management mayhem.

But let’s be clear: Jobs was NOT fired or let go or forced out blahblahblah. He was assigned to an obscure office with no clear purpose in the company. The end. He then decided, all by himself, to leave Apple. He wasn’t pushed, etc. All claims to the contrary are mere invention and/or ignorance. And of course, this totally WRONG RUMOR will go on forever and ever because we all enjoy DRAMA over reality. :-P

]]> By: janekg http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1060655 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:26:13 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1060655 That is so ‘Jobsonian’!

]]> By: MacRaven http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1060548 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:53:46 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1060548 If Steve left Gates sitting there for an hour, Ballmer would probably still be sitting there waiting when the janitors came to clean. It appears Ballmer is in the dark a lot anyway, he probably wouldn’t notice.

]]> By: counterproductive http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1059740 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 07:50:40 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1059740 Maybe. But my impression is he wanted to pretty much what he actually did do as soon as he returned to Apple in 1998, but the board didn’t agree with him and let him do it:

He wanted to concentrate on the Mac, and not milk old products that weren’t going anywhere.

He wanted to make things easier to use.

He wanted to reduce the price of computers (he didn’t want to sell the Mac for 4000).

He wanted to think about networking and universal standards in an office environment and not stick to proprietary cables and protocols.

He wanted outstanding design in all aspects of Apple products.

]]> By: ppctyler http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1059142 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:40:49 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1059142 Actually, at the time, Steve was running Apple into the ground. The Lemmings ad was the final straw. Sculley rightfully had Steve fired. Read Apple history before you speak.

]]> By: iPoDLoVeR http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1058530 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:31:13 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1058530 Hey now, that’s ‘MISTER Steve’ to you chumps. J/k, take it sleazy!

Go Apple,

]]> By: Agent Provocateur http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1058429 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:39:24 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1058429 No, he told the board it was him or Sculley and they chose Sculley. He may have left of his own accord, but they voted knowing he would leave. That’s what happens when banksters run your company. They chose the guy who sold knockoff sugar-water (Pepsi- a.k.a. fake Coke) because he had the Ivy League degree and an M.B.A.

]]> By: Agent Provocateur http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1058421 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:35:18 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1058421 Stuttgart Zuffenhausen, Baden-Württemberg or Stuttgart, Arkansas?

]]> By: Splat http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1058345 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:57:13 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1058345 One of a kind. I read his bio and would work for him anytime. He didn’t like people not living up to his expectations. He was fairly blunt about it at times.

]]> By: mrfergus http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1058292 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:32:55 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1058292 mine is stored in Stuttgart.

]]> By: Derek Currie http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1058254 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:15:56 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1058254 NeXT, the computer company started by Jobs after his ouster from Apple.

Steve Jobs as NEVER ‘ouster’ed from Apple. Steve Jobs deliberately left Apple by his own choice. Verify your facts folks.

]]> By: MEM http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1058234 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:54:19 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1058234 Things just aren’t the same anymore without Steve.

]]> By: Sari http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1058220 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:41:06 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1058220 If there is anything at all that makes me smile just a little when thinking about the upcoming anniversary of Steve’s death, it’s the fact that the first ever Beatles single was released exactly 50 years ago on the very same day, Oct. 5th. It’s fitting =)

I do love Steve stories, even the ones people in general may view as negative. (Honestly, I’m probably one of the few who read his biography and wasn’t terribly upset about anything in it…) The article was great, had me chuckling quite a bit!

]]> By: Paul http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1058190 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:23:25 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1058190 9to5Mac has a recording of SJ from way back…1983 I think. It is amazing to hear all his visions that are just coming true today. Tragic.

]]> By: tbone http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1058188 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:22:43 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1058188 I keep my Porsche hidden at the dealer.

]]> By: fredman http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1058143 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:54:31 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1058143 SJ was one of a kind.

=)

]]> By: rolf http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1058142 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:54:22 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1058142 veni, vedi, vici, Adhuc et ego sum

(i still am ; )

]]> By: breeze http://macdailynews.com/2012/10/02/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs-hiding-the-porsches-making-gates-wait-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1058112 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:43:22 +0000 http://macdailynews.com/?p=91306#comment-1058112 We certainly do.

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