Steve Jobs oral history

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Check out this oral history of Steve Jobs from the Computer History Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. It’s basically an extended interview in which he talks about his biography, Apple’s origins, NeXT, Pixar, and much else. The neat thing is the interview was conducted on April 20, 1995 while Jobs was still in exile from Apple. Apple would buy NeXT a year later to use it as the core of Mac OS X and Jobs would return to eventually take over. Here’s one of his perspectives at the time:

The Macintosh will die in another few years and its really sad. The problem is this: no one at Apple has a clue as to how to create the next Macintosh because no one running any part of Apple was there when the Macintosh was made–or any other product at Apple. They’ve just been living off that one thing now for over a decade and the last attempt was the Newton and you know what happened to that. It’s kind of tragic, but as unemotionally as I can be, that’s what’s happening. Unless somebody pulls a rabbit out of a hat, companies tend to have long glide slopes because of the installed bases.

Feb 11, 2007 | Comments | Tags: , ,

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