He was finally ready to wait them out until their time, which he didn't do with the Lisa and the Macintosh. When Steve Jobs was at NeXT, he was really getting his head together and taking control and becoming the person that, when he came back to Apple, you know, he was ready to really run the company and keep control of things and watch what was being done and develop new products secretly that were really incredibly great. We had 10 years of revenues from the Apple II running the company, and that was just from one person. He had basically, in Apple times, when he ran things. Introducing the Macintosh, Steve was still young, trying to move too fast, and not regulated enough to really create a good product, a successful product. I think it's going to bring out Jobs' personality and characteristics and thinking and vision very well at three key, important times. And I really admire the way he's going to make that film. I like to answer questions, and I like to answer them honestly. Yes, I'm going to see him again very soon, and I look forward to that. The fact that $40,000 is batteries, they don't see it as much.Ĭorrect. Well, my gosh, those are the people that are going out and buying $100,000 Mercedes already, so a $100,000 car… money doesn't matter. Well, this is the first one, it's a luxury car, a big sedan that fits five people comfortably. I look at it as, all the electric cars so far have been very tiny so they get better mileage on smaller batteries, you know, they can go 30 miles… or they were sports cars. I think it's a great car, I think it's the first electric car that was worth anything. So I do have a reservation about that, but not enough to turn me off. It's not unattractive - not totally ugly at least - but the controls in the Mercedes are so ergonomic, they fit your hand, you never have to look at them, you can feel where your hand is. I worry about that a lot, and I don't think it's that attractive. But for most people, I have so much trouble in a car, driving with touchscreens, that I worry about people trying to access the screen while they're driving. If you take it into account, you can use it. And so, you know, how many luxury cars can you buy per year? We've got another one in the garage that we never drive, so…
Because my wife's from Kansas, I'm no longer just buying anything I feel like at any time. But you know, there are some times that you have to make tradeoffs. Elon Musk wrote me, he sent me some emails, he was pissed that I was getting a gas guzzler and that I wasn't a Silicon Valley boy. That's why one day she said, "Hey, we should go down and look at one," and decided, okay, we'll buy it, but we backed out.
She knows… Every day, I sent her articles about the Model S consistently.
Now, she might surprise me and get me a Model S for my birthday in August, we'll see. It's a lot less money, a lot more technology for driving, and a lot less batteries to worry about. But she was an S-Class person - Mercedes. See, I'm one person, I'm a Model S person. I ordered a Model S, and decided at the last minute because of my wife.
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