Oct
6
It was the strength of Steve’s passion, persuasive gifts, persistence and personality that managed to change hearts and minds.
—
- MTV: Steve Jobs Made Computing An ‘Emotional Experience’
MTV’s Gil Kaufman talks with BoingBoing’s David Pescovitz and our own Eric Garland about iconoclast Job’s impact on them personally - both nuanced and brazen.
It’s easy to forget now thanks to the ubiquity of iTunes and the more than 10 billion songs sold since the store opened in 2003, but Eric Garland, CEO of leading online media metrix company Big Champagne, said for a time, the Apple boss was spurned by the major record labels. “It’s funny now to think of the notion of 99 cent downloads or paid downloads as an utterly noncontroversial one, but it’s hard to remember just how contrarian this play was eight or nine years ago,” Garland said.
