JG etc.

I overheard someone bring up the point that Dell is headquartered right outside of Austin. What is interesting is that among the thousands of tech savvy geeks and film participants here at SXSW, there is about 10 30 Power and iBooks to every 1 Dell that I have seen. And since these two industries generally pioneer trends in digital equiment, Dell and Microsoft shoud probably take notice. Remeber Mr. Dell and Mr. Gates, more than margins and monoploies, it is all about the user experience.

Steve Jobs:

Ultimately it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things in to what you’re doing. I mean Picasso had a saying he said good artists copy great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world………..

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste, and what that means is - I don’t mean that in a small way I mean that in a big way. In the sense that they they don’t think of original ideas and they don’t bring much culture into their product and you say why is that important - well you know proportionally spaced fonts come from type setting and beautiful books, that’s where one gets the idea - if it weren’t for the Mac they would never have that in their products and so I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft’s success - I have no problem with their success, they’ve earned their success for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third rate products.

Okay, I have had my morning Job’s Kool-Aid, I’m awake now.