Steve Jobs: The Fresh Air Interview (1996) | Fresh Air
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Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computer and Pixar, focusing on creating user-friendly computers, computer animation, and innovating technology. He also founded Next, a company that designed interactive web software and predicted the shift towards direct-to-customer distribution via dynamic web pages.
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Jobs emphasized the importance of dynamic web pages for personalized user experiences, introducing "web objects" to enable interactivity, predicting a shift towards direct-to-customer distribution via the web, and highlighting the potential for increased access to information, goods, services, and software downloads.
The interviewee, who led the Macintosh team and advocated for incorporating a mouse into the design, underscored the significance of innovation to overcome challenges, as Apple faced internal resistance to the graphical user interface and mouse concept, leading to a loss of differentiation from competitors.