73: Steve Jobs VS Steve Ballmer (not clickbait)
Jake’s not here this week. So Jonathan is joined by Amr from AJ&Smart to talk about a little more about Apple (since they had their media event a couple weeks back); compare Apple’s leadership with Microsoft’s; and how to approach working on a “boring” product. Here’s a peek at the topics discussed in this episode: - Innovators vs executors - Has Apple become boring? - Who’s running product at Apple? - How Steve Ballmer ran Microsoft - How success can set you up to be disrupted - Microsoft is interesting now..?! - Companies should focus on doing *boring* well - How do you pitch a boring product? - Innovation is overrated - The importance of framing in product design
Jake and Jonathan · Jake Knapp & Jonathan Courtney
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Show Notes
Jake’s not here this week. So Jonathan is joined by Amr from AJ&Smart to talk about a little more about Apple (since they had their media event a couple weeks back); compare Apple’s leadership with Microsoft’s; and how to approach working on a “boring” product.
Here’s a peek at the topics discussed in this episode:
- Innovators vs executors
- Has Apple become boring?
- Who’s running product at Apple?
- How Steve Ballmer ran Microsoft
- How success can set you up to be disrupted
- Microsoft is interesting now..?!
- Companies should focus on doing boring well
- How do you pitch a boring product?
- Innovation is overrated
- The importance of framing in product design
Links
Amr Khalifeh on Instagram
Amr Khalifeh on Twitter
Book: The Four Steps to the Epiphany—Steve Blank
Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm—Joanna Stern—The Wall Street Journal
Apple apologizes for continued reliability problems with its MacBook keyboards
The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks—DHH—Signal v Noise
Steve Jobs joking about MobileMe
Book: Rework—Jason Fried & DHH
Book: Buy Sprint! 📘🏃♀️
AJ&Smart + Jake Knapp Official Design Sprint Masterclass:ajsmart.com/masterclass 🥇😯
Your Hosts:
- Follow Jake Knapp on Twitter: @jakek
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- Podcast editing by Jason Sanderson: PodcastTech.com
- Show notes by @amrkhalifeh
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