Steve was certainly exceptional in that regard." Meeting Steve Jobsĭell's fascination with tech began when he was a kid, he tells me, playing with his dad's slide rules and adding machine - "it used to make this incredible noise every time it would roll through" - before getting a National Semiconductor calculator when he was just 8 years old. "You can't be following the rules and making amazing things happen. "Anybody who's going to do something amazing has to have a somewhat different and unconventional approach," Dell, 56, said in an interview when asked about Jobs' legacy. And despite the media portraying the two as archrivals, Dell says he and Jobs became good friends, with Dell describing Jobs as a brilliant entrepreneur, a savvy marketer, a dreamer and an idealist who helped lead one of the greatest business turnarounds in history and who helped popularize consumer electronics devices like the smartphone. In a memoir being released this week called Play Nice But Win, Dell talks about his teenage infatuation with the Apple II about meeting Jobs, who was 10 years his senior, at a computer user group and about the partnership that never was: Jobs wanted Dell to license the Mac operating system - Mac OS X - and ship it on Dell's fast-selling, low-priced Intel-based PCs.
But lesser known is that Jobs also tried to cut a deal with Michael Dell and his namesake PC company, which might've changed the course of Apple and technology history forever.
It's a big change from 1997 when, after returning as interim CEO to an Apple that was months away from bankruptcy, Jobs was looking for help and famously got a $150 million cash investment from Microsoft and Bill Gates and gave Microsoft's Internet Explorer a boost over the popular Netscape Navigator browser. 5, 2011, the iPhone, Mac and iPad have helped turn Apple into one of the most valuable companies on the planet, with over a billion people now making Apple's technology part of their daily lives. In the decade since Steve Jobs passed away, on Oct.
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