[Big Mac]

Answers from Steve Jobs at Apple's Shareholder Meeting

There are some interesting tidbits to be found. . . .

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Nothing terribly exciting or revealing though.

[KeyLimePi]

Best quotes from The Steve (as reported in Engadet)

On Leopard's delay: "Leopard will be worth the wait. I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If so, then Microsoft would have great products."

On the iPhone: "A few of us have been using the iPhone a lot and if you wanted it back, you would have to pry it from our dead hands."

On iTunes movie rentals: "One never knows."

After being grilled by AFL/CIO on stock backdating: "I actually got my options at a higher price, but I didn't ask the company to reimburse me"

On Anderson's comments: "I've worked with Fred for many years and I think he's an awfully good guy, but I thought his comments were a little wrong."

Despite being lauded by Greenpeace reps for "A Greener Apple", he opined: "I think [Greenpeace] particularly depends too much on principle and not enough on fact. You guys rate people based on what people say their plans are in the distant future, not what they are doing today. I think you put way too much weight on these glorified principles and way too little weight on science and engineering. It would be very helpful if your organization hired a few more engineers and actually entered into dialog with companies to find out what they are really doing and not just listen to all the flowery language when in reality most of them aren't doing anything. That's my opinion."

[lpkmckenna]

Good article. Daniel's questions to Jobs were great. Knowing Jobs will admit that dotMac is lacking was like music to my ears.

I'm not sure how Apple could sell Tiger to the third world. What hardware would they run it on?

[zro]

Originally Posted by KeyLimePi 

On the iPhone: "A few of us have been using the iPhone a lot and if you wanted it back, you would have to pry it from our dead hands."

OMG... iPhone hazardous to hands!

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Originally Posted by lpkmckenna 

Good article. Daniel's questions to Jobs were great. Knowing Jobs will admit that dotMac is lacking was like music to my ears.

I'm not sure how Apple could sell Tiger to the third world. What hardware would they run it on?

Jobs originally offered OS X to Negroponte for the OLPC project. Negroponte refused because OS X wasn't "free open source software" enough.

[Hawkeye_a]

movie rentals would be a great business move. most people who will want to *buy* a copy will probably opt for the HD version i nthe near future. i think if rentals become available.....at near DVD quality, Apple stands to take a lot of business away from video rental stores (which is a very viable and healthy business at the moment).

[Jawbone54]

Originally Posted by zro 

OMG... iPhone hazardous to hands!

Originally Posted by Hawkeye_a 

movie rentals would be a great business move. most people who will want to *buy* a copy will probably opt for the HD version i nthe near future. i think if rentals become available.....at near DVD quality, Apple stands to take a lot of business away from video rental stores (which is a very viable and healthy business at the moment).

I tend to agree with you on this one. There are many people that I know who have told me the reason that they don't buy movies/shows off of iTunes is that they don't need to watch them 20 times. They just want to watch them once or twice and be done with it.

I say give two plays per rental and start raking in the cash.