Posted: June 29th, 2010 | Author: Daniel Georges | Filed under: Technology | Tags: email, iPhone 4, minerals, Steve Job's, Wired | No Comments »
Recently, Derick Rhodes, an avid Wired.com reader, emailed Steve Jobs to ask about the minerals used in the construction of the iPhone 4. After reading an article in the New York Times regarding horrific warfare in the Congo from which we get a large amount of minerals for all our gadgets, Derick decided to ask Apple’s head man where Apple gets its minerals from. The question was ‘Are you currently making any effort to source conflict-free minerals?’.
While I’m sure most gadget companies wouldn’t care less, it is nice that Derick did get an answer from Steve himself. He simple said ‘Yes’. Steve went on to say that Apple uses conflict ‘few’ materials. Whether that is a spelling error, or a philosophical comment on whether any material we take from the earth is without conflict is not known. Steve Jobs the deep spiritualist? Why not?
Via [Wired]
Posted: January 18th, 2008 | Author: Daniel Georges | Filed under: Technology | Tags: , Amazon, Apple, e-reader, Kindle, Steve Job's | 1 Comment »
One of the most ignorant things Steve Jobs has ever said is “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.” He was talking about the new Kindle from Amazon. I want to ask Steve Jobs who did his market research for him, and how accurate it can be?
It sounds more like a defeat whine from Jobs, instead of any factual information. Where do you pull numbers like 40% of Americans don’t read? Or that people in the US read one book or less? They is no way of accurately capturing that information, and seems more like a lie to cover their inability to compete with the current offerings.
If Jobs was to say that the average American only ‘buys’ 1 book a year, that would be a call he could make by notifying publishing companies and asking sales figures. Just polling a small amount of the population on how many books they read is ridiculous. How about the people who borrow books from friends, or from libraries, did you poll all of them?
I am not a Kindle fan, I much prefer a physical book, over reading from any type of digital display. I like libraries and book shops. I love my bookshelf full of books that I’ve bought and haven’t quite got through them all yet. The Kindle doesn’t give me what I need. Doesn’t mean that everyone feels that way.
I would love to give Kindles sales numbers to prove a point, but they are a mystery to everyone except Amazon. What I can say is that Apple make safe sale proven products, that you know people will gobble up. An E-Reader is too fresh a technology for them. Stick to releasing iPod’s and Mac’s that are shiny, and leave the true innervation to the gamblers.
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