“For better or worse, much of D10 has been a reflection on the legacy of Steve Jobs, the iconic Apple founder who died last year,” Ina Fried reports for AllThingsD.
“However, the conversation moved from the background to the foreground on Wednesday afternoon as two longtime friends – Ed Catmull and Larry Ellison took part in a panel with Walt Mossberg reflecting on Jobs,” Fried reports. “Naturally, there was lots of talk about Jobs’ charisma, legendary negotiating skills and vision. But, Catmull noted that not all of these qualities were there in Jobs’ early days, something that Ellison agreed cost him his job at the helm of Apple. ‘The way he negotiated, the way he interacted with people, didn’t initially work well,’ Catmull said. However, Catmull said that Jobs was smart enough to see this and learn from it.”
Fried reports, “Ellison reflected on how exasperating his best friend could be. ‘He was a bit of a control freak,’ Ellison said. ‘He was?’ Walt quipped. ‘A little bit,’ Ellison said. ‘He wanted to engineer every bit of the user experience.’ …There was also consensus from the panelists that there really is no way to imitate Jobs just by looking at his management style. As Ellison put it, it’s like trying to paint like Picasso by wondering if you need more red.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s definitely not for the worse, Ina.
Ina! Why would it be “worse”???
Just saw MDN’s take. Was difficult getting past the first sentence until I got over my urge to hurl.
This is because you do not remember that Ina was a long-time Microsoft reporter and wrote many anti-Apple articles in the past.
So, for her, it is for “worse”.
Jesus. I’m still not over it.
THAT’S where RIM went wrong. Too much cowbell.
. . . and buggy whips.
…and I thought ‘soft white underbelly’ had proven -for all time- that you can’t too much cowbell, in anything…
Ina?
20 years ago we had Johnny Cash, Bob Hope and Steve Jobs.
Now we have no Cash, no Hope and no Jobs.
Please don’t let Kevin Bacon die
lol
Haha. Good one.
Saw this on Bill Murray’s twitter feed the other day
🙂