On Steve Jobs
I'm not an Apple fan but I do have a lot of respect for their products and Steve Jobs I'll just say a few things about him I think should get more attention After the original Apple, his first great business success was Pixar, that was what made him a billionaire. The Mac was a great design but not a great business success. The most important reason for which I think is that he didn't market to business, he showed his contempt for business buyers with the commercial of businessmen marching off a cliff. His first great business success at Apple was the iPod, and then the huge, huge , huge success of the iPhone. All his successes had in common that they were striking visually --that must go to his core abilities. They had good visual user interfaces but even more they were things people wanted because of their looks. Even when they sacrificed some usability- you can't control an iPod by feel, for example. One element of their visual appeal was that they had a higher sc...