When Steve Jobs speaks at a Mac convention, the fans praise him with a level of enthusiasm that's generally reserved for rock stars or dynamic religious figures. But over the years, Jobs' business tactics have inspired his acquaintances to utter some fairly harsh things. Here are the top five, culled from various books and magazine articles.
5. "Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo."
-- Bill Gates, responding to Jobs' complaint that the Windows GUI looks way too much like the Mac's (MacWeek, March 14, 1989). Gates was referencing Apple's theft of the computer GUI idea from Xerox PARC's ALTO computer.
4. "Jobs hated the idea [of the Mac]. He ran around saying, 'No! No! It'll never work.' He was one of the Macintosh's hardest critics and he was always putting it down at board meetings. When he became convinced that it would work, and that it would be an exciting new product, he started to take over...He was dead set against the Macintosh for the first two years. He said it was the dumbest thing on earth and that it would never sell. When he decided to take it over, he told everybody that he had invented it."
-- Jef Raskin, in "Accidental Millionaire." p.136-137. Raskin was the lead developer of the Mac. Raskin also noted: "[Jobs] would immediately poo-poo [your] idea, then a week later, he'd come back and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea!' The idea that he gave back to you was your own. We called him the Reality Distortion Field." ("Accidental Millionaire," p. 138)
5. "Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo."
-- Bill Gates, responding to Jobs' complaint that the Windows GUI looks way too much like the Mac's (MacWeek, March 14, 1989). Gates was referencing Apple's theft of the computer GUI idea from Xerox PARC's ALTO computer.
4. "Jobs hated the idea [of the Mac]. He ran around saying, 'No! No! It'll never work.' He was one of the Macintosh's hardest critics and he was always putting it down at board meetings. When he became convinced that it would work, and that it would be an exciting new product, he started to take over...He was dead set against the Macintosh for the first two years. He said it was the dumbest thing on earth and that it would never sell. When he decided to take it over, he told everybody that he had invented it."
-- Jef Raskin, in "Accidental Millionaire." p.136-137. Raskin was the lead developer of the Mac. Raskin also noted: "[Jobs] would immediately poo-poo [your] idea, then a week later, he'd come back and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea!' The idea that he gave back to you was your own. We called him the Reality Distortion Field." ("Accidental Millionaire," p. 138)
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