Thursday, July 31, 1997

Picture of Jobs and Wozniak with the motherboard of an Apple I.

A biography of Steve Jobs written in 1994.

Histories of the Apple II; and Apple.

Bruce Horn and Jeff Raskin talk about the early days of the Macintosh. (Collected by Guy Kawasaki)

Motorola announces first CHRP, runs Mac OS. Oooooh!

InfoWorld: Their CHRPs are fast. Yahoo!

News.com: Mac cloners kick butt and Motorola announces a Mac laptop. Right on!

An unnamed cloner says dealing with Apple is "like being in bed with an 800 pound gorilla, only the gorilla has epilepsy." Cute!

William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2. Funny!

SJ Merc: Encryption expert revises views. Serious!

News.com: Jobs rejects Apple chairman post. Typical!

In an email message to Pixar employees, sent on Tuesday, Steve Jobs says that Apple offered him the CEO job. He declined. They asked him to be Chairman, and again he declined. This email doesn't leave much room for speculation. They're stuck with him!

In a phone conversation with a reporter yesterday... He says excitedly "Steve Jobs has vision!" I could see it on the cover of Time or Newsweek. He says that Jobs is the leader of vision, even bigger than Bill Gates. Ohhh I groaned out loud. Here we go again! Then a great soundbyte came out of my mouth. "Vision sells newspapers not computers." Hmmmm.

It's time for Apple to quiet down, fix bugs, ship great computers, study and promote the vast array of unique and deep Mac software. We need a quiet, thoughtful business person to lead the Mac community. Someone who can work with us, not blast incompatible messages at us. There's no room for a big ego now. Like Dave's?

From Cameron Smith: "Just wanted to make sure you were aware that it looks like your site has been hacked; I assume the italic comments on today's notes are not yours."

From Dave Winer: The italic notes are mine. {qbullet.imageref ("smiley")}