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It's not just enough to have a good idea. It's the execution and final polishing that counts. Explained with a nice metaphor.
A nice piece on Steve Jobs, and the anecdote on how close he was to meeting Tim Berners-Lee and his demo of what became the www (it was apparently written on a NeXt machine) makes you wonder "what if" that meeting had happened...
Malcolm Gladwell on Steve Jobs, based in particular on Walter Isaacson's biography. Offers a very different view of Jobs - was he a visionary or a tweaker?
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Edwin H. Land, the genius domus of Polaroid Corporation and inventor of instant photography, and in many ways similar to Jobs both in terms of taste and in terms of the career path
It's not enough to just have a vision & supreme taste. You need to be able to really refine them & make them a reality.
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But the idea, so common in this week's media coverage, that Jobs was an inspired savant who succeeded by taking big risks on personal hunches, is way off the mark. Rather than worship at the altar of inspiration and "going with your gut," the rest of us should use this moment to consider the fundamental strategies that drove Apple's success.
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And, oh, the marketing: brilliant marketing. No one is better at creating attention than Apple. But attention without fulfillment is a straw fire. The magicians say "Presto!" and we gasp in delight. But they deflect our attention from the back-breaking labor that goes into assuring a perfect customer experience, hundreds of times a day, at 300 stores around the world, and countless conversations on the phone.
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Quite a varied bunch including the iPod, iPhone & the likes. Also include the notorious hockey puck mouse.
An interesting article on Steve Jobs from the pre-iPad era. Also sheds light on some of the rarely featured issues on Apple & Jobs like the back dated stock options & Jobs' personal life.
The more things change, the more they remain the same - so seems to be the case with Steve Jobs & his approach to new products - build a simple, but robust core for the first iteration & then develop it over time. It worked for the Mac, then iPhone & seem
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