[Ailist] Steve Jobs and AI?

[Peter Adams]

 Just a short note on Apple & innovation.
>
> "Oftentimes, Apple's big ideas have not started with Jobs. The iPod, for
> instance, was brought to Jobs as a concept by a little-known product
> designer named Tony Fadell. Jobs' great talent is the ability to spot
> high-potential concepts, champion them, and inspire teams to pursue
> them."          'Innovating on Your Own Terms' IBM/Innosight White Paper
> It appears that Apple successfully commercializes other's ideas &, I
> guess, has the characteristic org. climate of a marketing-sales type
> company. Don't know whether this helps?
>
> Peter
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Lionel Boxer <lionel.boxer at rmit.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
> > So, would Apple products be so "wonderful" if Jobs was not that way?
> > Perhaps they would - how much better may they be if he were different?
> > Something has always bothered me about Apple products; this quotation
> > below helps me to articulate that the reason I have been bothered by
> > Apple products is that they have a mood of arrogance about them.
> >
> > Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA BTech(IndEng) - 0411267256
> > Associate of RMIT University - lionel.boxer at rmit.edu.au
> > Graduate School of Business
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> > >>> Hank Kearns <hkearns4 at comcast.net> 06/03/08 12:56 PM >>>
> >
> > This is a very interesting read from Fortune magazine:
> >
> > http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/
> > index.htm
> >
> >  I've been an Apple users all of my computer life, although not a
> > knowledgeable as you and many others, and have felt a real allegiance
> > to Apple. First I liked the product, but to be honest there was the
> > "style" issue and pulling for the underdog attraction. I have mixed
> > emotions when I read stories about Steve Jobs that talk of his
> > arrogance, rudeness, and other undesirable traits. I guess I'm just
> > an idealist, but I would rather have Steve be a little more
> > humanistic. :)
> >
> > "As soon as people heard I was writing a book on assholes, they would
> > come up to me and start telling a Steve Jobs story," says Sutton.
> > "The degree to which people in Silicon Valley are afraid of Jobs is
> > unbelievable. He made people feel terrible; he made people cry. But
> > he was almost always right, and even when he was wrong, it was so
> > creative it was still amazing." Says Palo Alto venture capitalist
> > Jean-Louis Gasse, a former Apple executive who once worked with Jobs:
> > "Democracies don't make great products. You need a competent tyrant."
> >
> > Can leaders have the success like Jobs and use the concepts of AI?
> >
> >
> > Cannot wait for the next Apple product!! :)
> >
> > Hank Kearns
> >
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> > Alfred Painter:
> >
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