362: ‘Grand Scale Foot-Shooting’, With Anil Dash
The Talk Show With John Gruber
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Steve Jobs - Is Elon Musk an Unreliable Narrator?
Some see it as sacrilegious to say that there's any similarity between a despised figure like Elon Musk and a revered figure like Steve Jobs. The example, the canonical example to me is when they first came out with the iPod that had a color screen: why would you add a color screen to these devices? And he said, ah, nobody wants to watch video on a small. 12 months later, they came out with an iPod with the same size screen that in addition to showing your photos, played video. He was an unreliable narrator for strategic reasons because he didn't want to discourage people from buying an iPod today and waiting a year for one that played video.
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