史蒂夫·乔布斯的两封邮件
一位苹果前员工讲述了一段与已故苹果CEO史蒂夫·乔布斯之间的特殊经历。
在iPad发布前夕，为了让一位身患重病的旧友在临终前体验iPad，作者向乔布斯发出了请求，希望获得展示设备的许可。
乔布斯仅用“OK”两字迅速回复，批准了该请求。
尽管朋友最终未能使用iPad，但作者感谢乔布斯的人道主义精神，并认为这次互动展现了苹果公司最初的价值观。
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During the 12+ years I worked at Apple I never met with Steve Jobs for work purposes. Of course like all Apple employees I saw Steve in Caffé Macs or walking with Jony Ive around the courtyard inside the Infinite Loop campus. And of course there were Comm meetings that he would run. But I didn’t have any direct contact. Until…
In March 2010, just a couple of weeks before the iPad was due to be released publicly, I had a reason to contact Steve. A friend of mine was dying of liver disease and I was going to San Francisco to hopefully see and communicate with her while it was still possible. She was a friend from my Adobe days and was very much into technology. I thought it would be a treat for her to see an iPad. And I had one. But until the product was officially released I could not show it to anyone without permission from Apple management.
There was no way I was going to take the iPad with me unless Steve personally approved it. I knew that asking anyone in my direct management chain was a non-starter. I knew that nobody would take the risk. Only in the higher levels of iOS development would they be able to approve such a request and it seemed like a waste of time to bother trying. The easy answer was “No” and that is what I would hear. Nobody would care.
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