Steve Jobs biography describes his disdain for TVs

The latest book about Steve Jobs suggests the late Apple cofounder’s dislike of TV was one reason he terminated a 1990s personal computer called the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (TAM).The expensive, short-lived machine was launched in March 1997, months before Jobs resumed leadership of the firm as part of its purchase of NeXT. It had a tuner that would have allowed it to double as a TV set, and that didn’t sit well with Jobs.“I just don’t like television. Apple will never make a TV again,” Jobs is quoted as saying in a Fast Company excerpt from “Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader” by Jobs interviewer Brent Schlender and Fast Company editor Rick Tetzeli.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading at 'PC World'

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