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Steve Jobs Insult Response

A clip from Steve Jobs's 1997 WWDC session, in which he answers a hostile question from an audience member about Apple killing OpenDoc. He says to start with the customer experience and work back to the technology, and that saying no is part of focus.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Commenters link it as a canonical statement of Jobs's product philosophy and as an example of handling an insult calmly and articulately.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Mike Cane
Topic
product philosophy
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
20
Recommendation years in dataset
2011–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • Watch Jobs in his prime a year later describing his philosophy: [VIDEO] I am very far from an Apple fanboy but gosh, this guy totally gets it.

    chx on Hacker News · 2017-12
    In Apple and NeXT announce merger (1996)

  • I've been following Steve Jobs since I was a kid, about 30 years ago. Woz was more my hero then, but I read everything I could about Jobs even then, and ever since. I think Jobs transformed himself on a fundamental level. The young Steve …

    nirvana on Hacker News · 2011-10
    In The last time I saw Steve Jobs

  • Jobs was all of that and more. Modern personal computing wouldn't exist without his insistence at making "Computers for the rest of us". There were many quite pissed at Apple for selling pre-assembled, ready to use computers. It was thought that unless you could assemble …

    EricE on Hacker News · 2020-08
    In Celebrate Woz's 70th

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