Leander Kahney''''''''s Inside Steve''''''''s Brain 5 doc

... Group (USA) Inc. Copyright © Leander Kahney, 2008 All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kahney, Leander. Inside Steve’s brain / Leander Kahney. p. cm. Includes ... disappeared years ago—in 19 85, to be precise—when he was forced out of Apple after a failed power struggle to run the company. Born in San Francisco in February 1 955 to a pair of un...

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... distinguish between the models except their confusing product names—the Perfoma 52 00CD, Perfoma 52 10CD, Perfoma 52 15CD, and Perfoma 52 20CD. “What I found when I got here was a zillion and one products,” ... bare-bones Shuffle to the high- end video iPod and the iPhone, priced at every $50 price point between $100 and $ 350 . But to get there took Apple several years—not all at launch....

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... Simplifying means stripping back. Here is MacBook Pro laptop (as much as $8 75) than Dell makes on a $50 0 system (about $ 25) . This is why Dell bought Alienware, a boutique gaming machine manufacturer, ... together into a single System Preferences box that lived in a new navigation element called “The Dock.” The Dock is an icon-filled bar that sits at the bottom of the screen. It is home to...

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... logistics who is widely considered the number two at Apple. When Jobs took six weeks’ sick leave in 20 05 after his cancer operation, Cook took over as acting CEO. Ron Johnson, head of retail, manages ... Sculley wrote in his autobiography, Odyssey. “It’s almost impossible for a company with sales of $50 million or even $200 million to invest in the kinds of effective television advertising...

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... Commission, Johnson exercised the options at about $24, and immediately sold them for about $1 85 apiece. In 20 05, Johnson made about $22.6 million on stock options, and in 2004, $10 million according ... that they are happy to march in lockstep and zealously enforce the rules. One source, who Chapter 5 Passion: Putting a Ding in the Universe “I want to put a ding in the universe.” —Steve...

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... off his leather shoes and put on the sneakers. “Steve is a militant vegan,” the source explained. Inside the company, Jobs is known simply as “Steve” or "S.J.” Anyone else whose name is Steve ... host of other A-list companies. It was the third year in a row that Apple had earned the top spot. 5 Apple has brought to market a steady stream of innovations, including three of perhaps th...

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... check out Macs. An early tag line for the stores said, 5 down, 95 to go,” referring to the 5 percent Mac market share compared to Microsoft’s 95 percent. Jobs was wary of getting burned in retail, ... operation, when the company owned nearly 200 stores employing about 2 ,50 0 people, traffic was 250 people a week. That’s right: 250 visitors a week. In April 2004, after several years of...

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... what was their best experience with customer service, anywhere. Most a lot of brainstorming sessions,” explained one insider. “Products at Apple happen very organically. There [are] lots of meetings, ... they’d just developed. The drive was just 1.8 inches in diameter—considerably smaller than the 2 .5- inch Fujitsu drive used in competing players—but Toshiba didn’t have any ideas what it mig...

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... connected players. “We can’t get them to fix the bugs,” Anu Kirk, a director at Real, told CNet. 5 In addition, all the troubleshooting had to be performed by the user, who had to seek out the ... to constant crashes, freezes, and reboots. Users were just as likely to lose hours of work on a document as they were of successfully printing it. This was as true of Apple’s computers as it was ....

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Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20