Complete Apple WWDC | Steve Jobs talk and answer developers questions | 1997

Why HN readers recommended it

HN readers recommend it as an unfiltered view of Jobs' strategic thinking and decisiveness, including the famous answer on why OpenDoc was killed.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

TheAppleFanBoy - Apple & Computer Archives

Topic

apple strategy under steve jobs

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2025

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

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• Thanks for linking to the 1997 WDC (only 1 "w"!) Q&A with Jobs. For those hoping to cut to the chase, the timecode for Jobs' prompt and the hapless attendee who asks "What about OpenDoc" is 4:26 [0] The four and a half minutes prior …

• I personally feel there's a big overlap between Jobs and Musk—but none more so than the fact that they had the key combination of sufficient intelligence, clear vision, high self-confidence and (most importantly) strong influence over corporate direction. One of my favourite Steve Jobs quotes …

• For those that haven't seen it the whole thing is worth it: [VIDEO] This Q&A is the evidence for why I think many tech people underestimated him, and as you observe such unfiltered Q&As do not occur with other tech CEOs, though he was not …