Steve Jobs
60 Minutes Overtime: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Charlie Rose
May 13, 2013: 7:07 AM ETA video glimpse into a 30-year relationship that is the definition of frenemies.
FORTUNE -- Steve Jobs was pretty sick in Nov. 2010 when CBS (CBS) debuted its 60 Minutes app on the iPad, so it's hard to know how involved he was in the negotiations that got Apple (AAPL) the exclusive. But he probably would have got a kick out of what the venerable TV newsmagazine managed to do with the outtakes of Charlie Rose's interview with Microsoft's (MSFT) Bill Gates that aired Sunday night on 60 Minutes and is now perpetually available -- with extras -- on the iPad and iPhone.
In the full 13-minute segment, Rose spent only 30 seconds on Gates' relationship with Jobs, capturing a rare emotional moment when Gates, recalling their last meeting in the summer of 2011, nearly teared up.
But drawing from the footage on the cutting room floor, old interviews with Rose and the pair's joint appearance at AllThingsD in 2007, 60 Minutes Overtime producer Ann Silvio put together a 5:30 piece about a 30-year relationship that is practically the definition of "frenemies."
The best bits:
- Gates faintly praising Jobs for what he was able to accomplish given as "little engineering background as he had."
- Jobs' line from AllThingsD about the world being a richer place because "Bill realized his goal was not to be the richest guy in the cemetery."
- The story Gates tells at the end about when Jobs, in failing health, canceled a dinner at the last minute. "It he wants to know why," Jobs told Gates' secretary, "just tell him I'm an asshole."
The Overtime segment is available free on 60 Minutes' website. To view the full Bill Gates segment, you need the $4.99 60 Minutes app.
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10 reasons to hate Apple
Is there another company that is loathed with as much passion as Apple?
FORTUNE -- After more than five years writing an Apple (AAPL) blog, I think I've heard 'em all, from fanboy and lemming to sheeple and iCrap. What is it about this company that attracts such passionate detractors?
I've started a list. Feel free to add.
Apple is arrogant. "Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world..."*
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 12, 2013 8:18 AM ET
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Apple raises $17 billion in record-breaking bond offering
Its six-part debt issue was immediately oversubscribed.
FORTUNE -- Steve Jobs didn't like to borrow money. For the nearly 15 years he ran Apple (AAPL) as CEO -- interim or otherwise -- the company was debt-free and, for the last half-dozen years, cash rich.
But Jobs loved superlatives and nice round numbers with lots of zeroes, and there was much he might have liked about Apple's first venture into the capital markets MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 30, 2013 3:42 PM ET -
Review: Funny or Die's 'iSteve'
We can only hope that the first Steve Jobs biopic out of the gate is also the worst.
FORTUNE -- It's hard to say exactly when the feature film called iSteve -- released Tuesday on Funny or Die's website -- jumps the shark.
It could be the very first scene, when a balding and bearded Steve Jobs (played by Justin Long of the Get a Mac commercials) breaks the fourth wall of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 17, 2013 8:10 AM ETPosted in: Aaron Sorkin, Apple, Ashton Kutcher, Funny or Die, iSteve, Jorge Garcia, Justin Long, Ryan Perez, Steve Jobs -
Video: Laurene Powell Jobs on Steve Jobs' legacy at Apple
30 seconds from her 10-minute interview on Friday's Rock Center with Brian Williams
FORTUNE -- In Washington to lobby for immigration reform -- and to screen a new documentary by filmmaker Davis (Waiting for Superman, An Inconvenient Truth) Guggenheim -- Steve Jobs' widow appeared on NBC Friday to talk for the first time since his death about her famous husband and the legacy of his work at Apple (AAPL).
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 13, 2013 2:18 PM ET -
Alan Kay rips into Apple
Reflections at age 72 from the man who gave Apple the graphical user interface.
FORTUNE -- That Apple (AAPL) owes a lot to Alan Kay -- everybody's favorite computing pioneer -- is an understatement.
It was Steve Jobs' visit to Kay's lab at Xerox PARC that led to the Lisa, the Mac and all that followed. Kay's aphorism that "people who are really serious about software should make their own hardware" -- MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 3, 2013 6:49 AM ETPosted in: Alan Kay, Apple, Dynabook, Graphical user interface, John Sculley, Steve Jobs, Xerox PARC -
Apple's newest vice president: Bozo or rising star?
Adobe's Kevin Lynch comes to Apple with deep roots and a lot of baggage
FORTUNE -- The news that Apple (AAPL) has hired Kevin Lynch, formerly Adobe's (ADBE) chief technology officer, to be its new vice president of technology, has sparked something of a civil war among Apple partisans.
Wired's Steve Levy called Lynch a "star."
Daring Fireball's John Gruber called him a "bad hire" and a "bozo."
"Now we find out," tweeted Dave MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 20, 2013 7:06 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Why 'Draw Something 2' will be a social network
Also: Funny or Die makes a Steve Jobs film; EA's CEO resigns.
Zynga looks to revive Draw Something with a sequel that's much more of a social network [TECHCRUNCH]
From what we hear, it sounds like it will be much more of a social platform where players get to keep and show off their drawings instead of having them disappear into the game.
This way the very best artists can accumulate followings inside MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 19, 2013 3:00 AM ET -
Samsung's event marketing makes Apple's hype look tame
Pulling out all the stops for the Galaxy S4 in Radio City Music Hall and Times Square
FORTUNE -- Steve Jobs, the past master of high-tech event marketing, was famous for treating the launch of Apple's (AAPL) new products as if they were Broadway openings, although lately Apple has been moving its events to smaller and smaller venues.
Samsung, famous for flattering Apple by imitation, has taken the Broadway metaphor quite literally. MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 14, 2013 8:12 AM ET -
Warren Buffett: If he were Tim Cook, he'd be buying Apple
"If you could buy dollar bills for 80 cents, it's a very good thing to do."
FORTUNE -- In a three-hour appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box Monday morning, Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKA) Warren Buffett addressed two burning issues in the minds of Apple (AAPL) investors: Apple's depressed stock price and what to do with the $137 billion in cash burning a hole in David Einhorn's pocket.
On the pressure to increase the dividend:
"I don't own MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 4, 2013 8:35 AM ET
