Re:Planet to Acquire Terra Bella from Google
by hueving on Sunday February 05, 2017 @06:36PM
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>Before Apple’s Steve Jobs died in 2011
This is such a strange statement to me. Is there really a chance the reader will get confused and think that Steve spoke after he died?
Re:Planet to Acquire Terra Bella from Google
by rybosome on Sunday February 05, 2017 @07:27PM
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I think the value in such a comment is placing it within a timeline of the person's life. It wouldn't make sense to relate a story from 1982 and mention it relative to Jobs' death, but discussing an event that occurred months prior seems appropriate. Imagine it in the same context as "prior to his second tenure with Apple".
Re:Planet to Acquire Terra Bella from Google
by cwp on Sunday February 05, 2017 @07:36PM
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No. That's why mentioning his death is significant. It wasn't just sometime during his life, but at the very end, days before he died.
"Before Apple’s Steve Jobs died in 2011, he told Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page that his company was trying to do too much. As Page later told the Financial Times, he replied, “If we just do the same things we did before and don’t do something new, it seems like a crime to me." Yet Page also acknowledged that Jobs was right in one sense: he could manage only so many things before too many would get lost in the shuffle."
http://www.afr.com/technology/how-steve-jobs-last-advice-to-...