Well below is my 1st post on my new blog Steve Jobs thinks differently From now on, all my posts related to Steve Jobs will be written there...And I hope "the journey is the reward"...
This thought of creating something about Steve Jobs has haunted me for quite a while, and to be honest, except that I bought a Mac from his Apple store in San Francisco this early May, I hardly had much idea about him, all my surprise and enthusiasm about everything related to Apple actually only came after my newly acquired Mac. I decided to do this because---
It is a great company with remarkable innovation---not only in the sense of great user-friendly functionality, but also with great design of beauty! It is really not just being cool, it actually liberates you from the machine to live a "human" life!
The man in the picture is great with incredible loyalty to his passion putting decades of hardworking, persistence, creativity, and still in process of writing his "sweet stories"...
But it is a perfect complement for my last post "wireless freedom" as Steve gives a most simple & direct demo about how iPhone works "gracefully" based on Safari web application, almost a perfection piece of wireless internet connection, the impact of which will be comparable to Blackberry's "push" e-mail function!
Apart from this, I'm personally attracted by Steve's presentation style. No doubt he is a born public speaker, a natural marketer and communicator. If iPhone is a "sweet story" of Apple, Steve has always been the hero writing that "sweet story"...
The latest interview conducted by The Wall Street Journal was pretty much interesting in terms of different presentation and views of the two big computer & digital business veterans.
As a new Macer, I personally like Steve very much, his sharp-looking appearance, his smart yet humorous response, his relaxed posture, his white sports shoes & seemingly shorter jeans, his passion/love/enthusiasm/pride of what he has been doing...
Oh, gosh, this guy doesn't look like 40 something!!!
The videos below are selective clips I personally like a lot! The quotes with * are not necessarily accurate word by word, but it is absolutely Steve's original idea!!
* we are where we are, yesterday doesn't matter, we invent tomorrow. * when I wake up in the morning, wow, there's something exciting around the corner.
* what we do is kind of navigating through, make life more efficient. * isn't a ship funny that leaks on the top? * we are not one company trying to do everything; what we are trying to do is to deliver the best consumer experience, friendly GUI in a coherent product. * it is hard for one company to do everything, we partner with people who are good at stuff.
Well, who can believe Steve is only 6 months older than Bill?!
I love Steve's humor when he was asked to describe the relationship between Apple and Microsoft. This is not an easy question considering both are strong competitors of each other, but it was so much entertaining moment that Steve came up with his humor "we keep married for secret". I just love it!
Snapshot for Bill: Belief and love in software, software pulling him throughout his creative 20s, energetic 30s, mature 40s...
Snapshot for Steve: luckily born in middle-class family, never care about money, land in what really loves to do, greatful to working with super great people, create something for people which are also really loved by himself...
Who has the future? Increasingly creative powerful post-PC devices or PC with more integrated tremendous power?
The best answer might be, citing Steve's personal quote, "I don't know", * That's why we are so exciting about the future as we never know what our exploration will arrive at, that's what keep me working up to the morning.
