If the name Nolan Bushnell doesn't ring a bell with you, perhaps it should. Bushnell is a tech veteran who started up Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, and he hired 19 year-old, sandal wearing Steve Jobs back in 1974 as a developer making $5 an hour. His sense of current Apple CEO Tim Cook is that he is the guy you would want to keep things steady. "But I just feel like somebody needs to stick a little bit of dynamite under his left cheek," Bushnell says. Saturday will be the second anniversary of Jobs' death after the Apple co-founder and CEO finally succumbed to Pancreatic Cancer.
"I use some Apple products and like them. But I lately have been spending much more time in the Google-sphere than the Apple-sphere."-Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari and Chuck E. Cheese
Bushnell has a new book out titled "Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep and Nurture Talent." Bushnell sees Cook as a conservative, buttoned down executive. "I have a feeling -- and this is a funny thing that happens with people who are very buttoned down -- that (Cook) probably thinks he's innovating, when in fact it's just micro-evolution," said Bushnell. "They were able to build (the new iPhones) cheaper, which is something I would expect Tim Cook to do." As for Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the Atari founder says that they had passion and "fire in their belly".
Bushnell is a fan of Google's approach which might lead to some clunkers here and there, but has lead to the self-driving car and Google Glass. And while he had a chance to be an early investor in Apple, Bushnell turned down the opportunity because he never thought that Jobs could become a CEO.
Bushnell's new book is all about finding the next Steve Jobs
Alan, an ardent smartphone enthusiast and a veteran writer at PhoneArena since 2009, has witnessed and chronicled the transformative years of mobile technology. Owning iconic phones from the original iPhone to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, he has seen smartphones evolve into a global phenomenon. Beyond smartphones, Alan has covered the emergence of tablets, smartwatches, and smart speakers.
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