This is an awesome story of Steve Jobs return in 1997 to Apple from the New York Times – compare it to today.

Jobs bridles at any suggestion that Gates and Microsoft amount to his white whale. But he must wonder how differently things in the computer industry might have turned out had he not been expelled from Apple. He is already talking about his return in ambitious, competitive terms. ”I think we have an opportunity to take the next big technological step, and leapfrog Microsoft and everybody else,” he said two weeks ago. Apple, to Jobs, has suddenly become ”we” again…. In a small conference room ringed by Apple executives, Jobs himself gave the Next demonstration and proved that he was still a spellbinding salesman of technology.


An insight indeed:

So, I’m afraid, you won’t prise my iPhone out of my hands – unless you’re Steve Jobs and you want to give me a new, upgraded model!

and from The Seeker Blog on a new iPhone:

Also, to be perfectly honest, it’s pretty.

Ian Landsman twits:

It’s almost june. Can’t wait to find out how much cash I’m going to have to shell out to Steve Jobs for the next gadget I’ll need to have

White iPhone? I doubt it, but I would love it.