“When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996 he was assigned the title of iCEO (interim CEO). The ‘i”’ later took on a much more deeper context as the product naming conventions changed at Apple. Steve had planned rather early how new Apple products and major Apple changes will be announced, a one man show that insiders came to call the ‘one more thing’ show,” Quora reports.
“Steve knew something that all great CEOs, All great founders should instinctively know, they are salespeople and they know that people want to be ‘sold.’ Steve had a rather high degree of respect for the sales process and good salespeople in general,” Quora reports. “He felt all the much better when a founder is the chief salesperson. He once stated ‘if I can’t sell it, no one should.'”
“To present ideas to the world, a salesperson can use tools that are at hand. In the case of Steve, he was visual and wanted to punctuate his ideas with a huge backdrop of points,” Quora reports. “He also knew that a true Kinesthetic environment was needed to present lasting ideas and concepts. Steve would serve as the Kinesthetic student and presenter in these Keynotes.”
“Steve would respect PowerPoint only to the level that in the correct hands it could be a crude yet broken tool. It however did not serve in any real way the Kinesthetic experience of movement and it ran on a lesser operating system,” Quora reports. “Steve was left with only one product in 1998 for the Macworld Keynote, Concurrence, from Lighthouse Design. This ran on a NeXTSTEP computer connected to a VGA Projector from Sony. He operated the slide show with a custom built RF remote control with four buttons.”
“Concurrence served a basic purpose for Steve but he wanted more from the system. He wanted it to produce beautiful slides like the great photographic sales presentation slides the Xerox salespeople would use,” Quora reports. “This prompted Steve to ask his software designers to build something he can uses at his Keynote speeches and gave them a long list of features. In the mean time Steve used the Quicktime Player for most of the presentations. The Qucktime Player formed the basis of Keynote and the custom software the team was creating for Steve. Thus Keynote’s early grandpappy seems to be the Quicktime Player.”
Much more in the full article here.
Why an article about Steve Jobs? Is this a slap in the face of Tim Cook? Do people expect Cook to appear on stage in Levis and black turtleneck muttering,”One more thing….”.
Tim Cook will not be channeling Steve Jobs. Tim Cook can only be Tim Cook. I only hope that’s enough.
What a shallow comment. Good ideas experiences and lessons from the past always have great value. Try to swim in the deep end before you start typing next time.
If you had a cogent point you would have stated it, tool. Typical fanboi response, full of ire and insecurity and lacking any intelligence whatsoever. Try harder.
You’re Projecting… 😎
Thank you for conforming my post of 21 August 2013 12:04.
Apple fanbois are simply pathetic.
Why the frigg’n pessimism?
This article is not just about what Steve did. Read the article again. Particularly the full one. And if you come away thinking the same way, reread it again.
If after that you still feel the same way, you really can’t appreciate what Steve was always trying to do.
Steve is dead. He can’t help Apple.
The Freek part is spot on! 😛
This little details show how much Steve Jobs is truly missed.
It appears that MacFreak is a troll.
Best we just ignore him.
Steve is the vehicle of this story, but the subject is Keynote software. It’s not a commentary on missing Steve or dissing Tim. It’s about the genesis of a piece of software, made more interesting through historical context.
One little correction: Steve became known as the “iCEO” only after the iMac was launched. Before that, we was simply the interim CEO.
Great article. Steve was a genious and I miss his great presentations. Cook is getting better and so is Schiller! He had the best line at WWDC this year!