Timeline of Steve Jobs media

Columns: Year | City | Occasion | Media | Subject Matter
1983 | Hawaii | Apple Sales meeting | Video ( YouTube ) Video ( Archive.org ) | In 1958 IBM fails to buy Xerox 1968 IBM dismisses the DEC minicomputer as too small 1977 Apple invents the Apple II , the first personal computer IBM dismisses the personal computer as too small 1981 Apple II is the world 's most popular computer Apple grows to a $ 300 million corporation , fastest growing corporation in American history November 1981 IBM introduces the IBM PC 1983 Apple and IBM computer industry 's strongest competitors 1983 Apple and IBM each sell $ 1 billion in personal computers First major computer firm goes bankrupt . Total computer industry losses are larger than combined profits of Apple and IBM 1984 Apple and IBM each invest $ 50 million in R & D 1984 Apple and IBM each invest $ 50 million in TV advertising 1984 computer dealers fear an IBM dominated marketplace Was George Orwell right about 1984 ? First presentation of the '1984 ' TV advertisement Advertisement will run one week before Macintosh is introduced Jay Chiat the principle of Chiat Day is in the audience Lee Clow and Steve Hayden ( wrote the ad copy ) are in the audience | 1984 | Boston | Boston Computer Society | Video | 1985 | Playboy Magazine Interview | Transcript 1 Transcript 2 Transcript 3 | Wealth Idealism of the 1960s Petrochemical Revolution brought free mechanical energy Information Revolution brought free intellectual energy Users do n't need to understand the principles of a machine Socratic education The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it into a nationwide communications network . Alexander Graham Bell Telegraph took 40 hours to learn Macintosh hardware took more than two years to design Good PR educates people Apple and IBM as computing standards Merging of the telephone and the personal computer Apple 's roots are selling to people not Fortune 500s Strategic mistakes of the Lisa computer division Jobs was inexperienced at running a company Sorrow over internal disagreements about the vision The Macintosh represents Jobs ' unrealized vision for the Lisa : a computer for people not corporations 'Insanely great ' people make 'insanely great ' products for themselves , to their own highest standard The Macintosh group wanted to build the greatest computer that has ever been seen The IBM PC group lacked pride in their product and were motivated by money Average age of Apple employees is 29 Most people in their 30s and 40s get stuck in their thought processes with rare exceptions Companies , as they grow to become multibillion-dollar entities , somehow lose their vision . They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work . Apple is an Ellis Island company . Apple is built on refugees from other companies . These are the extremely bright individual contributors who were troublemakers at other companies . Dr. Edwin Land ( founder of Polaroid ) saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that ... Dr. Land one of those brilliant troublemakers , was asked to leave his own company - - which is one of the dumbest things Ive ever heard of . A visionary that brings together art and science is the most important thing to be , not a football player or astronaut In 5 to 10 years John Sculley and Jobs intend to make Apple a 10 or 20 billion dollar company That scale is merely to remain competitive . The bigger concern is how that scale is achieved . Apple hires people that want to make large contributions today not await permission to do so years from now . People/workers rarely get to contribute to the pool of innovation which we all rely upon . Rather than focus on Fortune 500 customers , focus on how to change how small groups/businesses work . There should not be one computing standard . Macintosh is clearly better than IBM . Innovation emerges via competition . IBM will eventually crush companies that are compatible with their systems To reach tens of millions of people , a computer that is significantly different from IBM is needed . Hence Macintosh . IBM believes in service , support , security , mainframes , and 'motherhood ' . Apples key observation three years ago was that when youre shipping 10,000,000 computers a year , even IBM does not have enough mothers to ship one with every computer . So youve got to build motherhood into the computer . If Apple makes a mistake and IBM wins , the world will enter a computer Dark Ages for 20 years . Frito-Lay , a company that dominates a market via service and support and stifles newcomers in their market . IBM dominated and therefore did not innovate in the mainframe industry for 15 years . The IBM platform is a repackaging of dated Apple II level technology Apple and IBM wo n't have much competition in the hardware space . The days of significant hardware start-ups are gone . New , innovative companies will focus on software | 1985 | Svaneholm Castle , Sweden | Apple University Consortium Europe , Lund University with Håkan Westling | Video ( YouTube ) Video ( iTunes ) Video ( Quicktime ) | Computers can revolutionize education Cooperation of European universities Computer is a new medium among print , television , and radio Initially , new mediums are based on old mediums Aristotle was Alexander the Great 's tutor Petrochemical Revolution Information Revolution Free intellectual energy from computers Computers will enable us to interact with Aristotles of the future Henry Ford The automobile had a historical imperative Computers will forever change education as soon as 5 years from now Jobs ' dream is to sell Macintoshes to the Soviet Union | 1985 | Redwood City , CA and Pebble Beach , CA | 'Entrepreneurs ' documentary | Video | NeXT Computer logo Building a company Leadership/communicating the vision Product price Delivery window Financing/Expenses | 1988 | Redwood City , CA | NeXTStep demonstration of MIDI and quotation application | Video | 1990s c. 1990s | 'An Immigrant 's Gift ' documentary interview | Video | Joe Juran

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Approximately how many miles south of San Francisco is the city where the Steve Jobs media NeXT internal marketing strategy video took place in 1991 ? | What county is the city in where the Steve Jobs media ABC News took place in 1981 ? | About how many square miles does the city cover where the Steve Jobs media NeXTstation Keynote took place in 1990 ? | What is the Irish name of the city where Steve Jobs media RTÉ took place in 1980 ?

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27 | Santa Clara County | 46.89 | Corcaigh