Steve Jobs once said Johnny Quince that Apple would never do TV. And this information is completely contrary to rumors that have repeatedly appeared on the web and according to which the company is still working in this direction.
About Jobs hate to TVs as such claims a new biography of the founder of Apple «Becoming Steve Jobs: The Revolution of a Reckless Upstart Into A Visionary Leader », which is soon to appear on the market. It is told that these words Jobs said in the late 90s. It happened during the discussion of the first independent work Quince – 20th anniversary Macintosh. Then it was a question about the possibility to complete this device TV tuner (by the way, while the company did produce such a decision).
And although later and was presented set-top box Apple TV, Jobs called it a “hobby”. Just a way to bring content to the iTunes Store more consumers. However, later in the network has a lot of rumors that the company must “is about to submit to television».
The flames were fanned words from the biography of Steve Jobs Isaacson pen. According to this book, Jobs contrary wanted “to do for television sets what he had done for computers and music players.” According to the “official biography” Steve Jobs aim was to create a simple and elegant device with a user-friendly interface. Here and know who to believe … By the way, the reluctance Jobs deletat TV and other book says, the era of post-Jobs «Haunted Empire».
However, the words uttered Jobs in distant 90s still nothing does not mean anything. The company’s policy is always subject to change, making it the sake of newfangled trends.
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