What the world needs now is Jobs
One way to acquire an appreciation for the achievements of Steve Jobs is to look at the areas where he hasn’t been, as Bill Wyman has:
As I wrestle with the two most backward technological presences in my life, the car stereo and the cable box, I find myself idly wishing Apple would get into those products. Jobs could knock heads and design and manufacture new editions that would bring them into the 21st century — a Tivo-cum-iPod for car radios and a combo cable box/computer/Tivo/Apple TV for the TV.
Both products a) make sense and b) would spur growth in all sorts of ways for all the industries involved, but neither will ever get done because those industries work at cross purposes, and none of the borgs involved — car companies, radio broadcasters, cable companies, and the movie studios, for starters — are known for their big-picture vision.
Well, there’s always Pixar, but it was brought to fruition by, yes, Steve Jobs.
McGehee »
20 January 2009 · 8:18 am
I’ve already gone on record saying I’d like to be able to load MP3s directly into my truck stereo, but the TiVo notion hadn’t occurred to me consciously until I read that.
There have indeed been times I’ve wished I could rewind and listen again to something I heard on the radio, because I either didn’t quite catch it, or (more often, especially in the case of news radio) simply couldn’t believe my ears.