October 30, 2005
Steve Jobs the Guru
RedNova has a puff piece on Steve Jobs, the technology business guru. I don't agree with the thesis that Jobs pulled a fast one on Disney since Disney owns the Pixar movie IP and the rights for sequels, but whatever.
he gave a long interview to Wired magazine. In it he forecast that Microsoft wouldn't find out a way to own the Web, that nobody would make money from web browsers, that the Web would be a huge hit for commerce (at a time when Amazon was barely six months old), and that the internet would revolutionise the supply of manufactured goods, by letting consumers specify fine detail of their desired product which could be relayed back to factories. Dell Computer, for example, works on precisely that basis. And Dell is by far the most profitable of the computer manufacturers. Jobs tends to be right about the direction of technology.
