Steve Jobs

11 statements across 10 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Oct 31, 2022 by Alex Kantrowitz · said 99 times in 33 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Everything said about Steve Jobs, oldest first

Oct 31, 2022 bearish
Opinion
Post-Jobs Apple merely refines old ideas and fails at invention
“Apple was built to take Steve Jobs ideas and bring them into action... Unfortunately, Jobs is gone. And so what do you have? You have a culture that's a culture of refinement, not one of invention. And so actually, I think since Steve Jobs has died, Apple has …”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 31, 2022 ▶ 41:17 How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
Jun 27, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pogue: Stockton Rush often compared himself to Steve Jobs and Elon Musk
“He fancies himself, fancied himself with a little bit of Elon Musk, a little bit of Steve Jobs, to whom he compared himself often.”
David Pogue Jun 27, 2023 ▶ 28:38 My Experience Aboard The OceanGate Sub — With David Pogue of CBS
Apr 20, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Swisher: Apple's stock is 10x higher under Tim Cook than Steve Jobs
“Tim Cook has managed to get over that, like, because the stock is so hot, you know, it's, it goes up and down, but it's about 10 X from when Steve Jobs ran it, right?”
Kara Swisher Apr 20, 2024 ▶ 21:20 Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
Jan 13, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Winarski: Apple repurposed Siri in 2010 to serve Apple Calendar and Mail
“Apple purchased Siri Steve Jobs, and they, in 2010, they took Siri as it was and reinvented it for the Apple purposes, so that would access Apple Calendar, Apple Mail, All of those things.”
Norman Winarski Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 13:23 The Future of AI and Entrepreneurship, According Two Leading Innovators
Oct 13, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Insiders report Evan Spiegel believes he is Steve Jobs
“I've heard from multiple people around him that he thinks he's Steve Jobs.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 56:00 AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
Jan 13, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Siegler: No current AI leader will sell AI like Steve Jobs sold the iPhone
“None of these people, even they're interesting. They're successful in their own right, but I do not think that they're going to be the ones who are able to sell this the way that Steve jobs could sell an iPhone to the public.”
M.G. Siegler Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 23:15 AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
Jan 13, 2026 positive
Opinion
Siegler: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is the modern Steve Jobs
“The person who I think is most analogous to jobs in the current sort of day and age is Jensen Wang, which, you know, obviously is as you're talking about is, is more hardware and video is more hardware focused than software.”
M.G. Siegler Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 6:33 AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
Jan 28, 2026 positive
Opinion
Taylor: Sam Altman possesses a Steve Jobs-like reality distortion field
“Sam probably has the most ambitious vision of any founder that I've worked with, and his superpower is aligning people to that vision. I was, didn't have the good fortune of really knowing Steve Jobs, but they always talked about the reality distortion field a…”
Bret Taylor Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 53:07 Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra
Mar 23, 2026 positive
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Jensen Huang Can Become the Steve Jobs of AI
“He has a chance to be sort of the Steve Jobs of AI, and maybe he's already there, but you know, he can be the visionary that explains and makes the, like we were saying last week, someone's got to make a case for this technology and do it well, because the pol…”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 39:15 OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
Apr 21, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Stern: Apple under Tim Cook became an operations company driven by deputies
“Since Cook took over is really an operations company, right? That's how he steered the company post jobs, and he left all of the other hardware and the software stuff to his deputies, right?”
Joanna Stern Apr 21, 2026 ▶ 1:31 Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern
Jun 8, 2026 negative
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Apple's rigid Jobs-era culture prevents it from trying new AI models
“The culture of Apple is very high on its own supply and they believe that the culture that they've built is responsible for the creation of the iPhone and While it was, that also came from Steve Jobs, and so they've remained this refined jobs idea culture, eve…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 24:39 Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
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