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Conversation between Steve Jobs and Developers at WWDC 1997

by akshat on 6/25/11, 8:59 PM with 20 comments

  • by A-K on 6/26/11, 12:42 AM

    At 50:23 is the first time I've ever seen video of Jobs on the worse side what appears like a genuinely unpleasant, almost confrontational exchange. He keeps his cool though, and manages to sort of shift the contours of the conversation. Really indicative of the time and place--can you imagine him having to answer that sort of question (posed in that sort of tone) today, given Apple's astronomical success?
  • by akshat on 6/25/11, 9:16 PM

    His clarity of thought is what just astounds me.
  • by jkupferman on 6/25/11, 10:21 PM

    At 5:55 his "saying no to customers" mantra sounded eerily similar to 37signals http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch05_Start_With_No.php
  • by pohl on 6/26/11, 12:02 AM

    I like how is go-to metaphor for strategic priorities is "the high-order bit".
  • by rooshdi on 6/26/11, 1:17 PM

    At 33:30 into the video, Jobs pushes a powerful insight that many found hard to believe at the time:

    "Apple can win without having to have Microsoft lose."

    Maybe, even then, he had a foresight into how significant mobile computing would become.

  • by Gring on 6/25/11, 11:06 PM

    1:03:30 is great: Jobs about mobile devices: "if you do email, you need a keyboard". Guess the iPhone wasn't on his list of future plans yet.
  • by dylanhassinger on 6/25/11, 11:48 PM

    great talk from Steve, and awesome that it starts out with some Grateful Dead :)
  • by mikecane on 6/26/11, 12:33 AM

    I don't effin get this. Another blogger popularized this video weeks ago. I even extracted excerpts from that video and did three posts. The original blog was found here as an HN link weeks ago. But NOW it's news?!