Steve Jobs for president!
p2pnet.net News:- Which is more important to Apple? Its brilliant promo / marketing team? Its faithful promo / marketing mainstream media acolytes? Or its ceo?
The iPod DRM consumer control lawsuits in the US and abroad and the black fake documents cloud hanging over Jobs’ head would be enough to sink any other ceo, and perhaps the entire firm. Look what happened to Hewlett-Packard’s erstwhile boss. But it’s still Jobs and Apple all the way.
“By and large, technology trade shows don’t attract average people willing to camp out overnight for a chance at a prime seat,” says CNET News‘ Tom Krazit. “But there they were, exchanging good-natured barbs with each other about the rumored products (namely, the iPhone) expected later that morning as they struggled to stay warm on the sidewalk.”
Krazit was one of them and apparently, at 4:45 am, “a time fit only for sleeping and garbage-collecting”. And they were there before him, all for an audience with Steve.
And just before that, “As I drove down 4th Street in front of the sprawling Moscone Convention Center looking for a parking place, I spotted a line of chattering figures huddled against the glass walls of the building,” Krazit wrote. “They were queued up hundreds deep, and they were waiting for Apple Computer’s CEO, Steve Jobs.”
It’s not the iPid or the iPhone or any of the other glitzy-but-no-better-and-probably-more-expensive-than-anything-else-Apple products.
“Several in line declared without reservation that they would buy an Apple-designed phone–hours before they even had any idea what it looked like or what it might cost,” says the story. “Later, it was revealed that even Cingular CEO Stan Sigman fell into this camp. Sigman told Macworld attendees that he signed a deal with Jobs to produce what would become the iPhone without ever having seen the design.”
What chance do the makers of other products have? Jobs is IT. He could probably run for president and win.
And he’d probably do better than George W. and crew.
Also See:
CNET News – Queuing for Jobs and the iPhone, January 10, 2006
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January 11th, 2007 at 2:49 am
Steve Jobs or Jim Jones? Who is the master of the ’sell’? Of course cultists will buy anything the mothership is downloading on them. hasn’t the pocket pc been handling most of the “revolutionary” apps that THE STEVE has granted his minions? For a fraction of the price? The keynote presentation though, was fascinating in and of itself. What a display of banal culture!! Ifelt as though I was diagnosing a culture’s pathology as I took it all in.