Steve Jobs: A Tough Act to Follow

re: Steve Jobs: A Tough Act to Follow

Floyd Norman — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:12:48 GMT

*sigh* Floyd, you can do better than that.

re: Steve Jobs: A Tough Act to Follow

Floyd Norman — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:30:50 GMT

Great article, thanks!

re: Steve Jobs: A Tough Act to Follow

Floyd Norman — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:19:59 GMT

There's a big difference between Walt Disney and Steve Jobs. Disney actually created things himself. Jobs is a great pitchman, perhaps the best salesman there has ever been. But he doesn't actually *create* anything himself. In story after story we see that when the Walt Disney company lost Walt, they not only lost their leader and the face of the company, they lost their best story man. The one person who could tell them if a product was going right or going wrong.

Of course Jobs was "hands off" at Pixar. It took him years to realize they weren't going anywhere as a hardware company. He was lucky to have people working for him that could shoulder the burden of saving the company so he could reap the benefits. He would have been crazy to interefere in things about which he knew nothing.

I'm not trying to deny Jobs his due. He has been very successful. But that success has come on the backs of a lot of relatively nameless people who do all the work, while he gets all the glory.

re: Steve Jobs: A Tough Act to Follow

Floyd Norman — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:49:03 GMT

Baloo... can you please elaborate on your point? "you can do better" is extremely vague and seemingly obnoxious

re: Steve Jobs: A Tough Act to Follow

Floyd Norman — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:57:06 GMT

I thought this was supposed to be an article about both Jobs and Disney?

Very little Disney...

re: Steve Jobs: A Tough Act to Follow

Floyd Norman — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:47:12 GMT

First off, there was no time to elaborate after midnight on a Monday. However, let me say now that it simply means that Floyd has written better pieces than that one.

Plus, I didn't see a good comparison between the two gentleman and lastly, there were not enough good anecdotes from Mr. Norman like we usually get. Therefore, the piece was not very good IMHO.

re: Steve Jobs: A Tough Act to Follow

Floyd Norman — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:13:25 GMT

The PowerMac 9500 was one of the most ill-conceived computer designs ever, and Apple actually put this monstrocity out on the market to the ruination of its customers. How much did Jobs know and when did he know it?

re: Steve Jobs: A Tough Act to Follow

Floyd Norman — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:15:38 GMT

Great article as always - no wonder you're a Disney Legend.

re: Steve Jobs: A Tough Act to Follow

Floyd Norman — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:36:08 GMT

I agree with ShakeMan73 200%.

Those of us who don't belong to the Apple/Steve Jobs cult can see through their "stuff".

The success of Pixar is John Lasseter and Ed Catmull's and the other talented artists working at Pixar and their's alone! Steve Jobs had little to nothing to do with it.