Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.
Interpretation
Steve Jobs expresses a disdain for styluses, highlighting their inconvenience.
In this quote, Steve Jobs criticizes the use of styluses for devices, suggesting that they are cumbersome and easily lost, thereby implying that the design of touchscreen devices should eliminate the need for additional tools that complicate the user experience. His statement reflects his belief in simple and intuitive technology that enhances rather than hinders usability.
In practice
This quote can be used in a tech presentation to emphasize the importance of intuitive design.
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.
The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product. And we are its workers. The countless hours that we - and the young, particularly - spend on our profiles are the unpaid labor on which Facebook justifies its stock valuation.
A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.
I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.
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