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Steve Jobs’ magic in product

Class 7 于晓滢Unit 2

Steve Jobs, a myth in technological product, spent his life packaging that magic into elegantly designed, easy to use products.

Steve Jobs experienced a wayward youth. After dropping out of college, he traveled to India, then became Buddhist, and experienced psychedelic drugs. But as he said. “A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences, so they don’t have enough dots to connect and they end up with very linear solutions”. So he was grateful for those wrong he did because they help him to grow up and become stronger.

In retrospect, Mr Jobs was a man ahead of his time during his first stint at Apple and his emphasis on design and ease of use gave him the edge later on although computing was dominated by technique in early years. He thought that technology alone is not enough and it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing.

Challenging the magic of computing into products that reshaped music, telecom and media, Mr Jobs put a ding in the universe as he said when he was young.