“A reportedly never-before-seen video from 1994 surfaced on the Web on Tuesday, showing late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs discussing his legacy and what it means to contribute to the industry he helped shape,” AppleInsider reports.
“The interview, which comes from the Silicon Valley Historical Association, was first spotted by The Loop after YouTube channel ‘EverySteveJobsVideo’ uploaded the video on Tuesday,” AppleInsider reports. “Jobs likened his contribution as a layer of sediment in a growing mountain.”
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[Attribution: The Loop. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Even Ballmer’s fecal matter will form a sedimentary layer. It will just be a very thin one.
It will be known as the K-T layer, for when the dinosaurs became extinct
I always thought that Steve Balmer had a very large output of that material you describe.
Why sully a Steve Job’s thread with something about Ballmer? Everyone here knows he’s a dick. Better to focus on what Steve Job’s is offering.
I tend to think of think of Microsoft leaving behind a stinking mountain of shite.
Not so Apple.
I think Steve Jobs will be remembered very long after his death. More like a Thomas Edison and such. While Ballmer has done very little to be remembered nicely,
Note that we remember the villains also. We will always remember the guy in the black suit with the black mustache bending over the train tracks tying poor miss Nelly to the tracks. We might forget his name but he lives in infamy… LOL
Just a thought
you can sliver apart his imperfections, but Steve Jobs had a clear sense of his place in the world, the vision and taste to improve the user experience, and the charisma and confidence to disarm all but the most recalcitrant foes. I really miss him. That is not to say that Tim Cook is a slouch. Far from it. He is the best leader for Apple. He will execute and he KNOWS his strengths and will gain his own unique aesthetic. Perhaps he needs to drop acid and roam in India for a while.
No, the iPhone will be remembered along with the telegraph, telephone, incandescent lighting, and television.
I am sure of this one (even though he had yet to create it).
Also, my iMac G4 1.25GHz still boots up and operates perfectly….
*brag*
My 1993 Quadra 650 boots and operates perfectly as well! It’s still a useful imaging workstation.
*swagger*
My 1985 Mac 512 also boots up and operates perfectly, but I can’t say that’s it’s still useful. Good for nostalgia trips maybe.
iPhone will be widely remembered through history only if Apple itself will survive that long, and if it will continue this model line. Otherwise people will forget it, and only historians will know about it.
It is hard for any company to exist that long. Even some of the best European companies that sometimes existed for Centuries, get closed and go to history classes.
And while under Cook and those who closely worked with Jobs, know and support his philosophy behind the company, design, et cetera, will try to keep the merit of Apple as long as they can, in decades, new people might take over government of Apple and it can become another Hewlett-Packard.
This is difference Jobs meant: painters or architects do not need themselves or their painting studios, architect bureaus to exist forever, and only need to live a painting or a building. With technology, it is not like that.
However, Jobs has left Pixar’s works that will be in wide known history forever. Even though works are not directly his artistically, people can remember that ages ago, legendary inventor and visionary has made it possible.
@ DeRS,
Methinks that thou hast taken not into account Apple’s University! Ye Olde Skool set up by his Jobsness to foister & forment his vision to future Apple inc. leaders. So important didst he consider it that he had ye principle’s office next to his.
Sorry, but I disagree. I feel that it will be remembered as THE first true multi-faceted communicator that changed forever how ALL phones will eventually operate.
I honestly think it was that important of a breakthrough.
And the dickheads in Cupertino are trying their level best to nullify Steve Jobs’ legacy by the monstrosity that is iOS 7. Steve Ballmer must be laughing in his secret lair.
Wow! An anonymous coward troll post! How original! Come on Samsung! You don’t pay these trolls enough! Imagine the quality of trolling you’d get if you REALLY forked over the dough!
Spend Samsung! Spend SPEND SPEND!
Gee, you Samsung paid bloggers are relentless.
Hint, when you call iOS 7 a piece of crap right now, how do you justify calling Samsung’s iOS 7 clone, in 6 months, the best OS ever?
I believe that this post was sarcastic in the mode of MDN fake trolls of yore.
Kingmel, I disagree but I do say that we all must post a /s or such if we mean satire…. Most of us are really bad at it…LOL
Just a thought.
If you have to label a joke “a joke” or sarcasm “/s” you have to assume a very low level sense of humor or basic intelligence…sarcasm and cynicism, after all are deliberate witty expressions that are subtle and indirect.
The man, the myth, the legend, Steve Jobs on the PC as a truck, circa 1994.
Little did Steve realize then that although he was putting down a layer on the ever increasing in size mountain of technology, he certainly didn’t put down a thin layer. His layer was massive and some day we’ll look up at that mountain and realize that it couldn’t have been a mountain without him.
I miss you Steve.
That would be like saying no one remembers, understands or is currently benefiting from what Ford or Edison did.
(I used American examples because that is where Jobs is from)
Take Ford, for instance. Their F 150 pick-up has a heated tail gate. That’s innovation. They did that heated tail gate, so that when it snowed, your hands wouldn’t get cold while you are trying to push the truck through the snow.
Tear in my eye.
iOS7 functions like android now,
so its all down hill from here apple
Was that worth a $1 from Samsung? You really should ask for a raise. Brilliantly written drivel dude.
When you wipe the snot D, bring your open palm up from your lips in one continuous motion till you reach the back or your head.
You can then achieve the all encompassing green hair attire of a true snot head.
The films, what is happenning? When, I have been waiting for?
Steve’s commentary also reflects those of us who are tech mavens. We’re driven to keep up with technology day to day while we watch the stuff we learned and with which we worked become irrelevant in 10 years. And we like it!
One compliment I can toss Steve’s way is that he, like no one else, wrote the blueprint for future of computing. It’s about the customers, the clients, the users and technological progress. It’s not about merely making money. It’s not about vacuous prestige, it’s not about pleasing the lost and self-destructive BizTards of the world. Apple is easily the best company on the planet and Steve Jobs drove Apple onto that path into the distant future.
Hey BizTards: Learn or rot. Your layer of sediment is being washed away in the flood of history. Meanwhile, Apple really is building a magnificent mountain, year after year. And you don’t have to be some brain dead fanboi to notice. The entire world has noticed.
Where will Microsoft, Samsung, HTC, Raspberry, Dell, ad nauseam be in the distant future? Who cares! Better left forgotten.
@ DC. They will be lying deep under a huge mountain of history, the pressure and heat turning them into either diamonds, oil or fossils. Future generations will excavate them either for treasure, fuel or intellectual curiosity about our past.
I’ve been telling people since I was in 7th grade that we’d end up digging up garbage dumps for resources. No one believed me. Boohoo. We do now!
As for archaeology, our current computers will be considered ancient horrors and future people will wonder how we put up with this crap.
“We’re driven to keep up with technology day to day while we watch the stuff we learned and with which we worked become irrelevant in 10 years”
And that’s why the leading edge is aka the bleeding edge.
And some of us enjoy being bloody all day every day. The future can arrive fast enough! (0_0)
Ha! Steve represented Apple’s virtues not complacency. Other companies pride themselves on either their mimicry or complacency. That’s what sets Apple apart from the imitators. Apple dies without continued innovation and even struggle. Without struggling for innovation, even struggling through failures, makes Apple sonething living, something magical.
Jobs was wrong. The Mac wasn’t obsolete in a few years. It’s more relevant than ever and continues to grow in PC market share. The Mac part of Apple by itself would be a Fortune 500 company.
Glad Steve gave up the beard thing!
If only he’d known Apple 2.0 would rise to the top of the sediment!
Jobs didn’t just create a layer, he created the mold for all the layers. He did change history, and he will be seen and studied about years later the same way we see Edison, Ford, and the rest of those change the world dudes.
Apple should change and rerun that famous commercial to include Steve Jobs in it along with Ali, Einstein, Ghandi, etc.
It still has huge impact for those square pegs out there.
All very true. Keep in mind that this is when Steve was no longer at Apple, he was creating what we now know as OS X for his Next PCs, no iTunes, iPods, iPhones, iPads, AppleTV, … yet. The technologies he needed to create where we are today did not yet exist. He saw what could be done with those layers not yet laid down and the ones that existed only in his mind and sometimes science fiction.
He will be greatly missed and to realize what Steve Jobs would be creating with his team in 10 or 20 years would blow us all away. We may now not see them for 20 or 50 years without his guiding vision. Apple made a video of a teacher talking to what we now know as Siri about incoming phone calls, schedules, document archives, … about 10 years before Steve and Apple created it. I believe that Steve Jobs may have left a 10 or 20 year road map at Apple before he passed away.
I miss him. Most people who understand what Steve did understand the great loss when he passed away.
I’ve got an Apple II that boots up perfectly.
No Apple II to boot up…
… but I do have a Tandy Color Computer 2 with Speech Sound Cartridge and Multi Pack interface. Anybody else?
It almost seemed like an Apple sometimes. 🙂 or something
Very nice.