Apple founder Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer Oct. 5, 2011. Even years after he died, the media continue to emerge new details about his life. Siliconrus took seven facts that were known about Jobs after his death.
Apple has had its own "Masonic lodge"
Top 100 Group meets once a year under the leadership of Steve Jobs. Inside the company, it was called the "Masonic lodge." Employees were preparing for these activities, discussed the future of Apple. All meetings were held in an atmosphere of secrecy, all meetings of Steve Jobs led personally.
It is on the Top 100 meetings CEO Apple usually show the new products of the company. For example, iPod in 2001.
Enter the number of a hundred lucky ones could not only top managers Apple. All participants in the Top 100 Steve Jobs personally took away every year a list of those present was changed.
At a meeting in 2011, Jobs wanted to discuss the focus of Apple's mobile devices - even then the founder of the company was confident that the era of personal computers has passed. It then had to sound the idea of "budget" version of the iPhone, which would come to replace the iPod Touch.
Jobs was a close friend of Jonathan Ive
On close friendship Jobs and Apple chief designer Jony Quince has long been known. New details revealed their friendship after the publication of the book Linder Cani "Johnny Ive.Legendary designer Apple ».
In 2009, Steve Jobs had surgery to remove a tumor of the pancreas. After Apple founder came to himself, he wanted to see just two people: his wife Laurene Powell Jobs and Joni Quince.
Their friendship was so strong that after in 2011, Jobs resigned as general director of Apple, many predicted this place Joni Quince. As a result, the operational management was entrusted to Tim Cook and Ive became vice president of design.
Jobs agreed with Google's underreporting of wages
In 2005, Silicon Valley has experienced personnel crisis: many engineers received offers from competitors and ran, thus disrupting the workflow. Then Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt of Google agreed on a number of measures to underestimation of staff salaries.
To begin, the company revealed to each other the net income of employees, and then decided that the violation of an agreement to impose sanctions. After to Apple and Google joined other technology companies were located in the Valley, including Adobe and Intel.
Despite the fact that the negotiations were not documented in any way, they eventually became public as a result of the antitrust investigation of the Ministry of Justice.
As a result, more than 100 thousand employees of a number of Silicon Valley companies filed a lawsuit against Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Adobe and Pixar. The lawsuit dragged on for four years and continues to this day.
Jobs with the publishers of electronic books has declared war on Amazon monopoly
In 2009, the company held 90% of the Amazon e-book sales market thanks to its readers to Kindle. Steve Jobs on the eve of release of the iPad in 2010, decided to fight this monopoly, and held talks with five e-book publishers: Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan.
Apple founder was able to negotiate with them about what all the books publishers are exclusive to the store iBooks Store, and prices will be set at $ 12.99, while Amazon offers buy bestsellers for $ 9.99.
In June 2013 the trial began on the facts of artificial price. Publishers of electronic books have gone back on their word, and have already paid $ 164 million in compensation to consumers. Apple also agreed, in the event of the failure of the appeal on the claim to pay $ 400 million.
Jobs wanted to install Mac OS on a Sony VAIO notebooks
Apple founder in 2001 was negotiating with Sony about the possibility of installation on VAIO notebooks operating system Mac OS.
At a business meeting with representatives of Sony Hawaii Jobs waited president Kunitake Ando during a game of golf at the last hole. In the hands of the founder of Apple was a VAIO notebook with installed on it by the operating system Mac OS. Despite the ban on the installation of the system on the device other companies for Sony Jobs was willing to make an exception.
The negotiations culminated in nothing because of a bad time for the transaction. At the time of sale VAIO showed explosive growth, because it seemed to offer Apple for Sony unprofitable.
Jobs before his death, re-read a letter by Bill Gates
Despite the fact that Steve Jobs often unflattering comments about the Microsoft founder Bill Gates, his opinion of Apple CEO valued.
In 2011, Bill Gates wrote a letter to Jobs. In it Microsoft founder noted that Jobs should be proud of the company and the products that he created.
After the death of his wife Lauren Jobs told Gates that his letter had been for Steve crucial.He read it before he died.
Jobs asked Warren Buffett what he should do with the money Apple
In 2012, one of the richest people in the world Warren Buffett said that a few years before his death came to him, Steve Jobs and asked what he should do with the money that has accumulated in the accounts of Apple. Then the company's stock has exceeded $ 200, and capitalization grew with each passing day.
Buffett offered several options: to buy back shares Apple, pay dividends, acquire other companies. As a result, Jobs rejected all these proposals and left the money in the accounts of the company.