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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Wednesday, July 14, 2004In absentia, Jobs still towers over MacworldCNET: "Despite the fact that Apple Computer Chief Executive Steve Jobs chose not to attend the ongoing Macworld conference, the company's mercurial founder still managed to remain at the center of the show's attention. When Apple announced its decision not to participate in the Macworld Boston conference it became clear Jobs wouldn't occupy his traditional role as the event's opening keynote speaker. Instead, show organizer IDG World Expo put together a reunion of the design team that built the first Macintosh desktop computers at Apple more than 20 years ago. And rather than giving Jobs credit as a key member of that effort, the panel of designers used the event to repeatedly deride the executive, saying his style of management had threatened the Mac's very existence. The group even parodied Jobs' taste in clothes, draping the executive's trademark black turtleneck and jeans over a chair on the stage to stand in the CEO's place. 'He killed the (Mac) project three times,' said Jef Raskin, one of the so-called fathers of the Mac, who began the project that led to the computer's eventual launch in 1984. 'We kept the project going in secret.'"This article is a good overview of this session, which I attended and found fascinating. I'll try to write up more later, but the short version goes like this: David Pogue, who moderated the event, was horrible, unprofessional and unfunny. The four ex-Apple employees were all fascinating, including the much-maligned Raskin, who, despite his rough ways, is probably right about much of what he says. Anyway... No time now, but I'll address this event's topics later if possible. [ Posted at 9:14 AM | Permalink ]
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