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“I’ll let you know the rules for this interview now”, Fadell begins. “It’s about me, me as a person. Not about the history of the iPod. Understand?” And “You need to know: certain questions I won’t answer.www.hossli.com/articles/2005/09/01/mr-ipod/
Can you tell us how you began at Apple?
“No, that’s not possible. I can only say what is written on my website: I work in the iPod department at Apple with the title of Vice-President.”
Mr Fadell, the US magazine Newsweek described a few weeks ago an episode where you received a call from Apple while you were on a ski vacation. Is this the truth?
“I can’t speak about this.”
“Can you at least tell us why you can’t speak about this?”
“Only selected speakers discuss our products. That’s a rule at Apple. The products are in the foreground, not the people.”
At Apple primarily one person speaks: CEO Steve Jobs, 51, the Messiah of the corporation. Many think he’s brilliant – but certainly he is extraordinarily egocentric.
Five years later his grandfather’s investment had paid off. Fadell, the teenager, had developed an ultra-fast processor for the Apple II; Apple bought the patent.
For Philips he designed two pocket computers, the Nino and the Velo. For Sony he created the MagicLink, a type of electronic all-purpose device that stored addresses, appointments, sent faxes, and displayed news and stock market figures. The device won design and technology prizes and flopped – “because the company didn’t market it properly.” A portable gadget only has a chance to sell when its meaning and purpose are illuminated in catchy advertising messages. “Apple succeeds at this, Philips doesn’t.” At Philips only the numbers count. Apple though, “wants to manufacture the best products, the business comes second.”
In 100 years, I think Steve Jobs' role will be seen as very important, and the fact that he didn't design anything will be put in perspective.
So, if not Jef, does anyone else qualify as a parent of the Macintosh? [...] But ultimately, if any single individual deserves the honor, I would have to cast my vote for the obvious choice, Steve Jobs, because the Macintosh never would have happened without him, in anything like the form it did. Other individuals are responsible for the actual creative work, but Steve's vision, passion for excellence and sheer strength of will, not to mention his awesome powers of persuasion, drove the team to meet or exceed the impossible standards that we set for ourselves. Steve already gets a lot of credit for being the driving force behind the Macintosh, but in my opinion, it's very well deserved.
Finally, just as with the Apple II and III, Steve Jobs sold the Mac to the public. Without Jobs' salesmanship and charisma, it would never have happened.
In my first conversations with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, back in the garage that was the original location of Apple, I argued that the Apple I (and later, the II) needed upper- and lowercase on both keyboard and screen. At the time they disagreed rather strongly–a position they now somewhat regret having taken. Similarly, when I first proposed the Macintosh architecture to the company there was strong opposition, from many levels, to the hardware and software concepts behind the machine. It is to this company’s credit that they tolerated these disagreements from the beginning*, and that they had enough faith in me to give me some resources with which to pursue the design to the point where it had n opportunity to prove itself.www.azarask.in/blog/post/macintosh-project-genesis-and-history-16-feb-1981/
Тот же фаерфокс в 4-й версии будет содержать— потому что в Mozilla работает его сын, Аза Раскин. Видимо эта идея передалась по генам :)

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