Steve Jobs 'The Lost Interview' Available on US iTunes: Who's the Savviest Tech Entrepreneur?

by thezilch Posted 2012/07/03 18:00:00

Related Topics: Steve Jobs, Apple, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Meg Whitman, Mark Zuckerberg

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	Bill Gates	113 votes	49%
	Elon Musk	11 votes	5%
	Larry Ellison	7 votes	3%
	Mark Zuckerberg	11 votes	5%
	Meg Whitman	7 votes	3%
	Steve Jobs	81 votes	35%

Robert Cringely interviewed Steve Jobs for a 1995 film "Revenge of the Nerds." And until now, all but 10 minutes of the interview was believed to be lost.

Steve Jobs – The Lost Interview

The interview is wide ranging across a variety of subjects like the famous Blue Box that Steve Wozniak and Jobs built early in their careers, the future of the personal computer and Jobs’ visions for his company NeXT, which he was running at the time.

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Bill G53 ~PWCM~JLA 2012/07/03 18:47:04

Bill Gates

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He changed computing as it was known and is still going strong.
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~HopelessRomanticM17~ 2012/07/04 04:30:24

Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

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Chris 2012/07/04 02:25:26

Steve Jobs

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He's right about spreading around nicer things, if it weren't for Apple Microsoft would never have strived to improve beyond Windows Vista, which led them to Windows 7 & 8. Most PC companies would still be selling huge brick plastic computers, but now they are adapting and becoming nicer... competition is a good thing.

Without iPhone

Well, do you remember your phone before iPhone? It encourages cell phone companies to create better smart phones.

Apple not only made lives better for Apple users, they encouraged all these other companies to make better products that makes everyone's lives better.

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k fleming to Chris 2012/07/04 05:08:22

Microsoft is mostly a software company, within Window's circle of influence there are dozens of hardware companies competing with each other for a bigger slice of the Windows market share. Sony was making some pretty neat stuff before the Apple craze really got started. But yeah it's nice to have a face to a large company like Apple.

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Chris to k fleming 2012/07/04 05:27:41

Microsoft only cares about software... they don't care about competing with a certain

really. :P

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Buoyant... to Chris 2012/07/04 22:33:08

It's heartbreaking, but Windows can never be cool no matter what.

You want an ipod or a zune?

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Chris to Buoyant... 2012/07/04 23:04:37

It's true, cost is the biggest factor that keeps people from Apple products, I love Apple but I can't afford $80 a month on a cell phone... well I can but that's expensive, so I pay instead for a $35/mo Android phone.

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Buoyant... to Chris 2012/07/04 23:20:02

Chris, i think they just call that smart. When in life we can afford all the bells and whistles we buy them.....
There was a point when i didn't even have a cell phone when everyone did.

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superan... to Chris 2012/07/04 12:07:18

So being a competitor is better than being the guy who won?

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Joey to Chris 2012/07/04 15:54:03

Also the Iphone stole most of what they have.

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Chris to Joey 2012/07/04 20:51:57 (edited)

"the graphic is in error, as Samsung only mentioned plans for the new phone in 2006. It wasn't actually shown until February 2007 at the 3GSM World Congress, held a month after the iPhone's debut. It did not go on sale at that time. "

read more...
http://www.appleinsider.com/a...

Regardless, my main point is that Apple encouraged competition to improve their own devices... Samsung is not influencing this kind of change while almost immediately all cell phone companies knew they had to update their smart phone designs after the phenomenal success of Apple's iPhone... and as a result I have a very nice Android smart phone.

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flyingseaturtle BN 2012/07/04 02:08:53

Elon Musk

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I think he is quite interesting ;-)

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Sean McDonald 2012/07/04 01:24:47

Bill Gates

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Kigan 2012/07/04 01:22:23 (edited)

Bill Gates

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Sensationalism made Steve Jobs famous.

People jumped all over the iPad as revolutionary, but Bill Gates was the first to create a tablet many years before.

Without Bill Gates, some of the others on this list wouldn't have had the tech to "borrow" and create "revolutionary" tech of their own.

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MlssCue =Go Blue= 2012/07/04 00:58:06

Bill Gates

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Without Gates how many below him on the list would be where they are? Not all I know.

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FatherL... to MlssCue... 2012/07/05 17:29:30

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And without his father, the CIA, and the elitist establishment behind Gates, he himself would surely not have accomplished the level of his business successes. As far as technology as a whole, we'd have nothing without Tesla.

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MlssCue... to FatherL... 2012/07/05 22:54:28

True.

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gregaj7 2012/07/04 00:41:32

Bill Gates

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For me, savvy and shrewd are the same. Bill Gates (III) set the standard for that. It's a hurdle no one else has even come close to reaching.

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Alex 2012/07/04 00:32:36

Bill Gates

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I used to think Steve Jobs was cool until I learned about his crappy personality. Then I just respected him for his visionary and achievements.

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Buoyant Leadraft 2012/07/03 23:53:52

Steve Jobs

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Apple fan here sorry! Everything I own is Apple. Apple mac pro, macbook, iphone, apple tv, No pad yet, not really into the pad. I'm getting there though.

god when i think of windows i want to hurt myself. Awful awful awful....

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DavidK to Buoyant... 2012/07/04 05:25:31 (edited)

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would appear you can relate to all three of these scenarios!

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Buoyant... to DavidK 2012/07/04 05:47:58

Blow jobs? I've had more then the history of the birthday candle!
Steve jobs? No he was not my type, but i did buy my first apple ppc from him in the early 1990's and never looked back nor has the amount of money sucked from my bank account.
No job? Isn't that the point of life?
Glad i work for myself and guide my own destiny. Want to join me on linkedin? Maybe we can barter? It's okay that you are a Republican, I still have superficial respect for you. If you can take me for everything i bring to the table at poker, i may respect you more but you are buying dinner and my hotel room if i lose.

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DavidK to Buoyant... 2012/07/04 06:50:18

that's fair............................ call me.

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Anonymo... to Buoyant... 2012/07/04 21:57:52 (edited)

I wouldn't go there myself, iPhones and iPods are good, Macs are good for editing and design, and Apple TV's are okay... But they're all basically designed to be as flashy as possible... Windows or Linux are better for most other things though.

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Buoyant... to Anonymo... 2012/07/04 22:11:57 (edited)

You know, i have so many old apples, can i use one of them for Linux? Do i need a win-blows machine to run it? Can i just reformat an old apple hard-drive to run Linux?

I take it from your comment you don't deal with graphic design. It's hard, because we don't want to think allot about how we get the product out in the end, and windows seems to have allot of hoops to jump through to get the finished product done and done as a pro.

When i get on a PC, i feel as if all the creative life force has been sucked from my bones. Am I a delusional Apple cult fanatic?
-Please help

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Anonymo... to Buoyant... 2012/07/04 22:15:48 (edited)

I'm just saying, I hate using macs for anything other than Editing, most things don't work particularly well on them, and they're so damned fiddly and rigid, on Linux and Windows you can make it more user friendly, but Apple's just stuck... Same with iPhones and Androids, I have both, and whilst I prefer the iPhone, it's so unchangeable compared to the android... But I think you could reformat an apple computer, maybe replace a few parts to download Linux onto it...

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Buoyant... to Anonymo... 2012/07/04 22:21:58

So the internet runs faster on a windows? I do know apple has allot of built in filters that cut off java script and auto block malware sites.... is that what you mean?

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Anonymo... to Buoyant... 2012/07/04 22:38:37

Not necessarily faster, but I've found on Macs, often sites, like Facebook, don't load properly and they don't like downloads and they have problems with videos and PDF files, because of JavaScript filters and Apple's little feud with Adobe... The Internet does run faster on Google Chrome though, I don't know if
You can download external browsers on Macs...

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Buoyant... to Anonymo... 2012/07/04 22:46:18

Safari has turned into a real stinker let me tell you! So i have been using chrome. I like it but i don't much care for the contextual menu as an only way of access to features. I have all the browsers...Firefox, Camino, bla bla bla.... I live in LA, i wish i knew a windows person in LA that could take me through it in person, it sucks. I have even been wanting to buy a WIN-BLOWS.... but all my apple friends GASPED!

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Anonymo... to Buoyant... 2012/07/04 22:53:55

Windows 7 isn't all that bad, really, but I would still go with Linux. Windows is prone to viruses, and as long as you don't want to play video games Linux is better. Of course, for any designing or editing, Macs are best, but then, you already knew that.

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Buoyant... to Anonymo... 2012/07/04 23:12:45

Wow Anonymouse, I just took a sneak peak at your profile. 16? I am very impressed! You really sound like a bright kid. Back in the 90's when you where suckling on a baby bottle i was very involved in hacking. Back then, it was cool. We never tried to hurt any company or anybody, but did feel the need to exploit those vulnerabilities and expose them to our corporate victims.
I would love to build my own PC, especially because I view it as a throw away device. Maybe that is the wrong attitude to take. Maybe i should give the Windows OS and it's hardware more credit.

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Anonymo... to Buoyant... 2012/07/04 23:22:16

I'm a teenager, we're all computer buffs, because we've grown up using them. Hacking to show flaws in programming isn't a bad thing particularly, especially in Facebook, where the flaws are rampant. Some of my friends build PC's, they're not at all difficult to do, the circuitboards tell you where everything needs to go. It's just finding all the parts, especially if you want to build a good one, good graphics cards for instance can be difficult to locate... Windows is good for using computers in general, and downloading things, but not so good for specialised procedures.

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ScatterJoy! 2012/07/03 23:36:26

Steve Jobs

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While Bill Gates is the richest, and Mark Zuckerberg has the most friends, Steve Jobs and Apple are at the forefront of technology innovation. Google and Apple are going to own the world in about 30 years....

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Donnie to Scatter... 2012/07/04 07:32:18

what technology is apple even developing and/or integrating, hell they don't even make their own computers anymore it's just re-branded intel now. at least Google is constantly developing API's, hell most they just make and don't really inform people.

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Scatter... to Donnie 2012/07/04 07:35:27

Weren't they the first to market tablets? And what about iphones? And the software that Apple has designed is far more user friendly than any PC based system.
But admittedly, I don't know much about technology - so please don't feel the need to crush me with your superior knowledge or try to entice me into a "debate". I already concede to the distinct possibility that you know far more about this stuff than I ever will - congrats.

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Donnie to Scatter... 2012/07/04 21:43:51

oh i didn't mean to come off condescending or anything, and i apologize if i did.

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Scatter... to Donnie 2012/07/04 22:31:59

No worries- it gets a bit difficult to really communicate with writing. No offense taken!
Happy fourth!

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superan... to Scatter... 2012/07/04 12:14:29

Bill beat Steve to all of his "revolutionary" tech.

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Anonymo... to Scatter... 2012/07/04 22:03:44

Apple's finished now Steve Jobs is gone, and Google is a possibility, but they'll have to innovate a lot harder since Google + didn't take off and Windows Phones are eating into their Android sales...

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Scatter... to Anonymo... 2012/07/04 22:32:28 (edited)

Do you really think Apple will tank without Steve Jobs?

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Anonymo... to Scatter... 2012/07/04 22:41:22

Definitely. Haven't you noticed how silent Apple has been since Jobs went to join the software in the sky? They've lost all their ingenuity and imagination, Jobs was their driving force, now all they can do is steal other companies' processors for better speed and put more cameras on their iPads... They'll basically be putting the same things out there, they won't make anything new now...

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