Ik ben nog steeds een Apple fanboy. Maar de foto is treffend.

Ik ben nog steeds een Apple fanboy. Maar de foto is treffend.

Today Apple is one of the coolest brands on earth. And CEO Steve Jobs deserves most of the credits for this. But Jobs was not always that succesful.
Comeback kid
For my birthday I have got the Dutch unofficial biography of Steve Jobs, titled ‘Steve Jobs’ (thanx to Yas & Mas). The book is very entertaining and reveals a lot of inside stories from the company. Reading the book you discover that Jobs is above all a fantastic comeback kid. As well in business as in his personal live.
This internal promotion video from the eighties proves that even Apple had once a very bad taste.
I recommend this Dutch biography to everyone who is interested in the stories behind the rise and downfalls of the Apple imperium.
One week before the release of the new iPhone 4 on june 7th, Apple CEO Steve Jobs did an interview on the All Things Digital Conference organized by the Wall Street Journal. He talks about the absence of Flash on the iPhone and iPad.
It strikes me that after so much success with Apple and being just recovered of a liver transplant, Jobs talks with continuous energy, passion and ambition.
Jobs at the Boston Macworld Expo in 1997
For some historical perspective I added also Job’s keynote at the Boston Macworld Expo in 1997. Jobs explains here his plans for the future of Apple, which is at that moment almost bankrupted. Certainly one of the defining moments in the history of the computer industry: