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Subject:	What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Sun, 4 Feb 2001 20:41:08 GMT
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What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company? What would be different? What would be the same? What would the software titles be like? What would the website be like? What would the idea books be like? What would the overall product designs be like? How would the fan community react? It's fun to imagine... --Todd (massively drooling over the new G4 PowerBook)

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		Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?
(...) He'd have let Bill Gates steal the idea for the brick and MicroBlok would be the king of the building block empire. Microblok would make inferior products, but would force all toy buyers to also purchase their product. Meanwhile, Steve's Lego (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?
(...) The product line would be divided into: Adult desktop sets, Adult portable sets, Junorized desktop sets and Junorized portable sets. Titanium bricks only available in Adult Portable sets. Pretty new friut flavored transparent bricks in the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?
(...) Alot of transparent bricks :) Seriously -- he would try to run the company with an iron fist but not have a clue about what they actually do (Im sorry -- thats Pixar!!) He would cancel every product and project that was in place before he took (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?
(...) <sits back and waits for PC Nazis to make snide comments> (...) Mmmmm, yes. There's a possibility I may have one at work later this year. <cross fingers> ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?
(...) This is an even more interesting question, because it implies that Woz designed Lego instead of computers. After all, without Woz, Steve Jobs is just another drugged-up early '70s hippie. :) (To be fair, without Jobs, Woz is just another (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?
in article G8AxvF.9w@lugnet.com, Erik Olson at olsone@spamcop.net wrote on 2/5/2001 2:50 PM: (...) Oh no, oh NOOOOO. I feel another fun thread coming on... We have had "What would happen if Steve Jobs ran the LEGO company?" I think we already did (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun)

		Re: What if Gilligan ran The LEGO Company?
"What would happen if Gilligan ran the LEGO company?" There would alway be the hope that maybe, just MAYBE, this time they would get it completely right, and everyone would be happy. But at the last minute, just when things seemed most hopeful, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun)

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