Mr. Jobs’s legacy will be ‘the blending of technology and poetry. It’s not about design per se; it’s the poetic aspect of the entire enterprise.’
James B. Stewart today writes about Steve Jobs’s passion for great design in a long article in the Business Day section of the NYTimes. If you want to know what I mean when I use the term “creative economy,” this article captures the meaning better than most of what I’ve read about the creative economy. It’s not about “the arts”—it’s about a way of seeing the world through the dual lens of ideas and emotion and doing things that haven’t been done or haven’t been done better up to now. Read the article here, and get the NYT if you want more.
“Most people underestimate his grandeur and his greatness,” Gadi Amit, founder and principal designer of New Deal Design in San Francisco, told me. “They think it’s about design. It’s beyond design. It’s completely holistic, and it’s dogmatic. Things need to be high quality; they have to have poetry and culture in each step. Steve was cut from completely different cloth from most business leaders. He was not a number-crunching guy; he was not a technologist. He was a cultural leader, and he drove Apple from that perspective. He started with culture; then followed with technology and design. No one seems to get that.”
Yesterday at the World Wide Developer’s Conference Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the newest iPhone. Apple calls its new device the iPhone 4G. It has many new and improved features that will certainly make it a desirable purchase for smart phone users. But it is the system blunder during Steve Job’s presentation that everyone seems to be talking about. While demonstrating (or trying ) Retina Display to the whole world, Jobs tried unsuccessfully to connect the new iPhone to the New York Times using a WiFi Network. It was a little embarrassing for the techie genius…watch.
It is big day for techies all over the world…Today Apple Ceo Steve Jobs gives his keynote address at the World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco. In the past Jobs has used the WWDC to introduce major Apple products like the the iPod and iPhone. It is highly expected that Apple will present its new iPhone 4G today. But the event will be marred by one major problem for Apple, Jason Chen of Gizmodo has beaten Steve Job to the punch and already introduce the 4G to the world. Oh, you must remember, don’t you?…Several months ago an Apple engineer decided to stop for a beer on the way home from work. Interestingly, he was carrying around a test version of the new iPhone and after pounding back a few left it sitting on a bar stool. Within days of the lose/find, Gizmodo got its hand on the prototype and showed it to the huge wide world.
So why wait for Steve Jobs…here is the new Apple 4G iPhone courtesy of Gizmodo
Needless to say, Apple has banned Gizmodo from today’s conference.
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