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10 Jun 07
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“You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead,” he said.
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Mr Jobs as the archetypal pioneer, by building some of the first boxes three decades ago, and Mr Gates as the archetypal industrialist, by being the first to recognise how to charge for software as a separate piece and using that to dominate the industry, at Apple's expense.
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Mr Jobs is usually attracted to devices that define new categories, rather than compete in large, pre-existing industries such as the handset business. But Mr Jobs knew that mobile phones were becoming music players, and thus rivals to the iPod, says Mr Bajarin, so entering the handset industry became a “defensive” imperative.
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Similarly, the first iPhone and its multi-touch technology should be seen as a new “mega-platform” that will support other products—ultra-portable computers, say, or new TV sets—besides better and cheaper iPhones. Hence the iPhone launch, says Mr Reitzes, provides a “logical chronology of new products for years to come.”
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Its name an intentional misspelling of the McIntosh apple variety, this Macintosh was the first commercially successful personal computer that allowed users to point and click with a mouse.
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“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me,” he said in 2005. “The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
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Employees at NeXT lamented their “hero-shithead roller-coaster”, as Mr Jobs oscillated between doling out profuse praise and public humiliation.
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In 1997 he became Apple's “interim CEO”, only to drop the word “interim” from his title in 2000.
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a cult of secrecy that employees began to call omerta, because it resembled the code of silence that keeps Mafiosi from ratting.
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Apple's stores are more efficient (in sales per square foot) than such established retailers as Tiffany, BestBuy and Neiman Marcus.
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