Re:Apple will invest $100 million to bring Mac production ba...
by jonny_eh on Thursday December 06, 2012 @12:40PM
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Jobs changed his minds on tablet sizes? I thought he went to his death thinking they nailed it with the original iPad size.
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by ok_craig on Thursday December 06, 2012 @02:09PM
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Eddy Cue: "I believe there will be a seven-inch market and we should do one." "I expressed this to Steve several times since Thanksgiving and he seemed very receptive the last time."
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by abc_lisper on Thursday December 06, 2012 @03:26PM
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That he wasn't able to, coz he passed away, but the point stands. Jobs is famous for things like that. I remember clearly when he said there is no way anyone could make a computer that is less than 1000 bucks(when the rumor is ripe with upcoming ipad) and 6 months later releases the ipad for 500.
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by alsocasey on Thursday December 06, 2012 @03:59PM
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That statement would have been truly outlandish considering non-Apple laptops' were going for 400-600$ fairly routinely by that point.
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by hkmurakami on Thursday December 06, 2012 @04:07PM
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His "counterargument" probably would have been something like, "you call those %$$#^&'s computers!?"
Re:Apple will invest $100 million to bring Mac production ba...
by abc_lisper on Thursday December 06, 2012 @08:16PM
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sorry i forgot to mention that he said there is no way anyone can make a computer that is not shit for less than 1000 bucks.
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by flyinRyan on Friday December 07, 2012 @05:53AM
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That's a horrible example. Jobs didn't consider the iPad a computer but an an appliance.
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by mdanger on Thursday December 06, 2012 @01:38PM
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I was able to find this with a little Googling (no idea on the truthfulness of the article), but I could swear there was another article listing the iPad Mini as one of the last products he worked on:
http://www.slashgear.com/steve-jobs-secretly-very-receptive-...
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by CrazedGeek on Thursday December 06, 2012 @01:56PM
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You might be confusing the iPad Mini with the iPhone 5: http://www.channel4.com/news/apple-co-founder-steve-jobs-las...
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by devcpp on Thursday December 06, 2012 @12:32PM
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That's not "political pressure", is it?
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by danilocampos on Thursday December 06, 2012 @12:32PM
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I don't think President Bush asked him to switch to Intel, no.
(cf < 10 inch tablets, Intel chips, etc)