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Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?
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lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Mon, 5 Feb 2001 20:50:03 GMT
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In lugnet.general, John D. Forinash writes:
In article <G892sK.DF2@lugnet.com>, Todd Lehman  <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
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...

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 Hewlett-Packard corporate
drone...)

Personally, I think it's fearful to imagine.

It's interesting how we have made action  figures out of industrial legends.

We imagine new adventures for them, going on to command such-and-such a
ship, turning the world inside out, or just repeating the favorite hero
moves to comic effect.

So, like, imagine if the greatest legends were to all come together in one
place on one adventure, like the Argonauts seeking the Golden Fleece: Steve
Jobs (Jason) recruits Woz (Hercules) and the all-seeing but vision-impaired
Phineas (played by Bill Gates)...

Perhaps a later generation will get time mixed up and throw in Einstein as a
contemporary...



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  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)

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