Watch other Steve Jobs interviews I've uploaded here: • Steve Jobs Interviews An interview with Steve Jobs filmed on 2/18/1981 about the future of Apple, Computers, the Home & Personal computer markets, video games, and more.
Just try something, anything, throw yourself into it fully and see where it leads. Keep doing that. Not only will you gain lots of skills and knowledge about yourself you'll be really well prepared with transferable skills when you find what you want to do.
@@jgbalboa The view of privacy on the Internet was vastly different. Earlier, it was seen as possible to make strides in through various encryption methodologies. But, now privacy is an issue beyond hacking, but ensuring security of information is on another level. There is a lot more info in the hands of large corporations and government institutions. Our understanding of the privacy issue has changed a lot.
@@karstent.66 When sharing advice/opinions/ about schools and doing drugs: Turn your advice about schools around, PARENTS HOMESCHOOL you own offspring, cause the government ain+t caring and have clearly said that many times. About drugs? Correct here, stay away. But there is one big problem none of us take into account: TVs - the most popular drugs in every household. Daily watching TV = doing drugs daily. The MK ULTRA MIND CONTROL - search, soul, and start giving out real valuable advice. Stop repeating whatever the TV (most powerful weapon formed against humans minds) spreads. And souls, homeschool your offspring fully out from school programs or the home-schooling of yours and homeschooling at all. Evolution of Television 1920-2020 (updated) - the greatest weapon ever created. And as we promo the A. I and all the ways it can be used, we promo deceiving others and being deceived.
I was 25 then and had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and I look at this interview and am in absolute aww at his drive this is probebly the best Steve jobs interview I have seen to show the real person he was . Thanks for sharing
@@technotroll Yeah except you didn't follow through and nobody has any evidence whatsoever of your visions of the future that turned out to be correct.
@Mia L I thought the same, that’s what salesperson do. They may talk out of their ass. He also doesn’t address questions he goes about a rant and brings up other subjects to change the conversation and not address the questions.
I read once that Apple gave several feet of archives to the Computer History Museum if I am right. A mix of footages, pictures and files regarding Apple since the early days. Also, if you add the idea that many people who have been in touch directly with Jobs or relatives at anytime (work, events, etc...), a lot of rare things are missing.
It's probably been sitting on Umatic in the broadcaster's vault. Umatic keeps a lot better than VHS garbage (so do the VCRs, for that matter). There's tons of cultural heritage buried on deteriorating video as we speak... uh, type.
It’s very special to see him as a young man, not fully sure of himself-and clearly very hard on himself when he finds himself short of perfection (maybe explains why he was hard on others)-yet there is no doubt that Steve is in there. Also shows how much he has continuously grown as a person over the years after this interview.
I love old footage like this mostly because it’s incredible how long the footage lasts if of course taken care of properly and it’s also insane that some videos if not the first video uploads in history say 17 - 18 years later.
@@justin_ooo I totally agree with Justin. The knowledge Jobs had and his age 25, fing amazing! What a futurist and pioneer in technology..... Jobs is such a workhorse in developing the future , he has no time to take a vacation! Unreal.........
Makes you wonder why he'd bother, no? It's still being recorded, and what would he have done during a live interview in front of an audience. It is interesting indeed
Successful people don't become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance wealth, a great career, purpose-is the result of hard work and hustle over time. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life..
@@derick3482 Because the Bay Area in California. The rainbow was very present in in 1970s-80s Bay Area. There were perhaps more rainbows (in an arched shape) on cars then than even today.
His use of analogy to explain computers to non tech people was brilliant. Not many tech folks back then would do that and it hurt their business endeavors since they only spoke in speeds and feeds.
5:34 Man riding a bicycle analogy (Scientific American article) 7:08 Technological disruption 8:37 Creative knowledge work. Creative work > technical drudgery work 10:05 1984 dystopian view = large centralized computers (top down). Mac's personal computer goal = decentralized & democratic (bottom up, antithesis of 1984) 10:46 “We describe our business as making *tools and not toys.* We’re really interested in providing that bicycle type of tool to the marketplace.” 12:00 Easy to use = most sophisticated = most expensive (technology) 12:24 Silicon Valley = entrepreneurial risk culture 18:50 Hiring advice
@@lemon-ade3857 I’d say no, just do more in depth look at yourself and expand your mind more. We’re all growing everyday never pass up the opportunity to learn more especially from Steve 😇
2021: Your privacy is pretty much gone (well, it's actually stored in the cloud "securely"), and Apple is blocking proper repairs by independent repair shops by serializing their parts, disabling replacement cameras, etc. Steve would probably turn in his grave if he knew all this.
Sitting here at home 40 years after this was made in 2021 watching this on an Android phone just speaks volumes about what he's saying 😉 Steve Jobs was a visionary.
@@senju2024 If you want a phone that is both cheaper and has more features, Android is the way to go. Apple only went to bigger screens a few years back because several Android phones had already gone that way.
It feels like he's not speaking to society from 1981, he was talking about us in 2021. I just realized right now, watching this video on my iMac and checking my portfolio on the stock market on my iPhone this morning 😳
Wow an amazing person with so much confidence, knowledge and intelligence He spoke the language of 21 century. just amazing and breathtaking interview May you Rest in peace you will never be forgotten Steve you gave so much to humanity You Changed the world beyond belief Thank you Mr Jobs
@@mikolajpaluch4927 He would have fired the designers and people responsible to approving some of the worst "features" implemented. The iphone would look nothing like it does today. Camera bump, widgets, app library, notch, the big screens, would be absent imo
@@mikolajpaluch4927 he's the man of innovation. he'd have stopped making iphones past iPhone 11. And worked on a project that would help humanity in better ways.
I love that the video is provided as the un-edited roll. The interviewer talking in the beginning isn't being completely honest though, but he's doing his job in order to keep Steve comfortable and calm. In reality even the explaining he did to Steve in the beginning, is a great kind of B-roll to cut in later, when you - for whatever reason - need a cut-in of the interviewer speaking or asking about something. Oftentimes completely different audio is edited in over the interviewer speaking, though, since you only see him from behind. Edit: Oh lol I notice they do the question over-shoulder thingy at the end too. Must've been quite interesting to see for Steve to see how TV is actually produced from the vantage point of the interviewee.
I feel the same way. Thought the questions themselves were excellent, especially considering back in 1981 most journalists would not be familiar with the topic. He did his homework.
That insight for that time period is wild! If i lived in 1981, I'd have 0 clue of what was being said here. Ofcourse all of this makes sense in modern times but 1981.. he knew his shit. Excellent CEO.
@@TruenorthmtGod He made Apple at 20 years old and sold millions of computers by 21 and he started out with nothing. Even people double his age cannot do that
All his ideas from 1984 are so accurate. The effort in drawing parallels from existing concepts and nature shows how much time he has spent in understanding and developing his approach. Genius.
I was 14 then, and for me that was the best era of computing for a true computer geek. What computing has become has benefited the world massively, but I do miss the magic of those early years. The above interview was about 1 year before I got my CBM64 - my all time favourite computer 😁 - I still have it!
Since he was young he had this confidence and unparalleled charisma that no other CEO in the valley had. Say what you say about him but he was one hell of CEO
I never liked Steve Jobs... But I feel I should reconsider my opinion on him, now that I have a better understanding of his character after seeing this Interview.. He only knew success from an early age. A 400% growth in business every year from age 24 to the very day he died would warp anyone's expectations of others. Yes, he was a fucking asshole.. But nobody can ever say this man was not intelligent. This man was excellent at his job.
@@nthny1875 Good that youre able to hold both of those dissonant opinions at the same time. Most people let their personal likes or dislikes cloud their eventual judgement of a person.
He got very lucky that he knew Steve Wozniak who invented the apple 2 which did really well despite jobs, he had one failed product after another working for apple then finally got the imac, he wasn't very good, he just has a cult following, really interesting person though
@@Pepespizzeria1 is spot on... Jobs is a complete and total douche, who is falsely believed to be some important figure; that is Woz. Every single project that Jobs brought to market either flopped or sucked cash from remaining Apple II sales. The original Mac was only usable to basically play simple games - it didn't have enough RAM to do any productivity software, graphics software, etc. It was a complete fraud.
Steve was answering the filler conversations at the end much more relaxed and naturally. I actually wanted to hear about his management approach MORE than the typical computer visionary stuff.
I had already studied BASIC programming on an IBM 370 mainframe by this point and knew I wanted a career in computer science at age 16. In 1985 I bought my first computer, an Apple IIe, just as a hobby to help me learn. By 1989 I had my first professional job in IT (and I'm still in it). Even though I have always been a PC guy since because I support businesses, Steve Jobs has always been one of my idols. He was earth-staggering brilliant, and I love his visions about the user experience.
i was one of the kids in minnesota who steve mentioned. in 1989 i used an Apple 2 in elementary school. it was so futuristic back then to walk into a room full of computers. i still remember it to this day. this was in the minneapolis public school district. they had great facilities in those days.
What an amazing interview. This guy is a genius. He was way ahead of his time. I wish I could meet him. But his legacy lives on. Yo, I'm still making beats on my original MacBook pro from 2013. What an incredible machine. 10 years old and she's still running strong, factory fresh with that new car smell. Truly. He was a master of transistor design and electric mechanical art. 🍎🌈
God man... I just love the way Steve speaks so freakin much... it's so amazing... his level of awareness, his ability to use brilliant analogies to convey incredibly broad and vast ideas! Forever inspired!
So interesting to think of the circumstance that when this interview was done only a bit over 3 decades passed since the first mechanical computers right after WW2, yet the video as of now is 41 years old. he was closer in time to those monstrous machines than to our world, yet was so on point in describing the way the world would take in the next 10-20 years that he build his entire industry and life around it. really fascinating stuff.
This video is from 1981, but looking at him and the confidence he's speaking with, it feels like he has strong vision how life's going to be. and for me it feels like as if smartphones and digital world was already there, where in reality in 1981 it takes a lot to dream of such things.
He said it would take about 10 years to for personal computers to really get a foothold in the home market. And he was right. We bought our first personal computer in 1990 and the rumblings of the internet were just around the corner.
@@aaronschulze1250 Yeah, but when you don't know that you believe people are smarter than they really are. For all we know some flunky researched and wrote these talking points. Of course, Jobs was a genius but I think he was more a creative genius than a technical one.
@@briankarcher8338 Yeah, but here he is scripted. He went off script and had to redo it. When I didn't know he was basically reciting a rehearsed script, I was impressed by the depth of knowledge of historical manufacturing. I'mn to really knocking him. The older I get the more I realize how good people are at creating an image.
The crazy part is he was 25 years old here!!! wtf!!!!!!!!! He talks so much sense and reason at his young age, and he created Apple at 20!! This guy is unbelievable...
It’s cause he visited the Palo Alto Research Center in 1979 where group of engineers at Xerox basically built the foundation for modern computing that Jobs later copied and sold
25 years old and he had set up a complete new business area for the global market and was dominating it him self. When I was 25 I was still exploring alcohol and women and be part of average fun activities with no ambitions in life. Like a hamster in its wheel. Feels so odd in post perspective. At least I started getting ambitions in life as I hit 30.
the first 30 years of your life you develop your habits. the second 30 years your habits develop you. if you hit 30 with the habits you do want to maintain, you’ll become who you want to be.
The reporter has good short term memory, I wouldn't be good at resaying some of the long sentences, guess that's why most people in TV use a teleprompter (talking about the end section of this videoclip). Great video, nice to watch to get some insight from the earlier days of Apple.
Apart from seeing a young Steve Jobs, it was interesting at the end to see all the raw footage and the way the camera angles are staged. He certainly nailed some big issues, like how difficult these computers were to use. But I was struck by how much my life has been affected by his early vision. I learned to program on an Apple II (like the kids from MN that he mentioned) because BASIC was the OS. You were confronted with a command prompt and you had to type BASIC code to have the computer do anything at all. As a kid using a computer lab without access to floppies or a hard drive, I found coding interesting, but most of the kids in my school had little interest or inclination. In contrast, I'm sure all the applications Steve spoke about used pre-written code and data stored on some kind of drive, which would have vastly increased the cost of the computer. Tape was the low-end storage solution, but I don't recall ever seeing a tape drive for the Apple II. I don't recall when Apple introduce graphical user interfaces, but 10 years after this interview when I could afford my first computer, they were still low-powered and hard to use. A 386SX with a 32MB HD was > $1000 and ran DOS and connected to the university modems at 2400 BAUD.
But the year was 1981 !!! Millions of persons would give everything if they can go back and live again in this so cosy ,sweet,wonderful year , the year of their own fairtyale -like childhood or thrilling teenhood or sweet early youth....
@@bat__bat you do know how ios is crafted with its hardware. Or u have never used an iPhone. Even a 7 year old iphone would work smoothly unlike an android
He looks sympathetic , the kind of guy that could be your friend. The later version of him was somehow completely different. I enjoyed the video, thanks for uploading. Apart from the historical value it was a good talk.
Favorite part of this video was toward the end where they did the re-asking of questions for the final edit. Loved when Steve was trying to crack up the reporter by making faces when he asked the questions.
It's because university is one of the worst places for highly creative and self starting people. University is about group think and doing things the way it's been done in the past. That's like the exact opposite of Steve Jobs. Im not saying that university doesn't have its place, it certainly does. But more and more, universities are becoming increasingly worthless, however more expensive.
When you realize you are smarter than your teachers I guess the thought is what is the point. It sounded like he had a vision for the world from this video. He might have just wanted to get on with it and not waste any time. He certainly did achieve what he set out to do. Listening to him here I have become convinced that some people are just born different. He was only 25 and had already accomplished alot and was able to articulate so clearly his vision for the world as it relates to technology.
(paraphrasing): "Would you say that in the 21st century personal computers would be as ordinary as a fridge..." To think that the actual answer (speaking in the 21st century) is "no" - as I have one fridge and I don't know how many computers/compute clusters I have in every room of my home. Amazing.
@@hardy2175 Well, in a normal 2021 household you'd have plenty of computers in basically every appliance and personal computers. Fridges, TVs, consoles, lighting, kitchen appliances, clocks, laptops, tablets, phones, watches, cars, just to mention few😅 I calculated mine, and in my house i own 18 different computers.
Steve actually had so much knowledge about things, able to infer trends based on that knowledge, very insightful and most importantly a visionary leader. Although he was not an engineer or scientist he was still significantly more intelligent than the best of engineers and scientists. People never saw the point of personal computers and now its something we all need. Steve was actually fucking insane 🤯
Life is really short and can not believe that he is not among us anymore, what a pity losing such a person. he made a big changes in the world of technologies, god bless him
@@alexm7765 Good Sir unless you're an actual troglodyte living in a cave deep within some tropical rainforest with absolutely zero knowledge of how the internet works, I sincerely cannot believe a grown adult in 2021 would suggest that living in a vacuum without being influenced by user data harvesting or advertisement algorithms is somehow possible
The power of Steve Jobs, is that he never doubted his convictions and belief. When the path it's so strong you are like a train running on trails you know where you are going. The thing we should consider it's the fact that are the winners that write the history, and this is the reason why we hear only these winning stories...there are other tons of similar personalities that are were so convinced about their belief but they get them wrong....we will never hear that stories!
even if he never invented anything, but just exploited other people that currently are fading away in history. I bet a lot of people have no idea who Steve Wozniak is. But hey, who really appreciates the true genius :))
