Apple Senior VP Eddy Cue has accepted an award on behalf of late Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs. The award honors Jobs’ induction into the Bay Area Hall of Fame, which was created by the Bay Area Council to recognize prominent entrepreneurs in the SanFrancisco Bay area.
The 14-minute video […] contains some memorable Steve Jobs clips, a message from his friend and Intuit chairman/Apple Board member William Campbell – and an emotional speech by Eddy Cue, in which he talks of what Steve meant to him as both a friend and a colleague …
Cue describes the launch of the iMac, and a lesson he learned from Jobs about perfection:
So we come in at midnight, we were going to do rehearsals … one of the things we wanted to do was have the iMac come out from the stage as he was introducing it. And we’d shine some lights. I was sitting out in the crowd … and the iMac comes out and the light comes on it and I said “wow, that is so cool!”
Steve stops the whole thing and says “stop, this sucks!” He says, “it should come out at the side where you can see the color, the light should be shining at this side and when it turns to the front that’s when it should turn on…30 minutes later we do the whole thing again and when I see it come out I said ‘wow, he was absolutely right, it’s incredible’. He had that level of detail for everything he did, and that’s what he taught us.
Cue also talked about the most important lesson he learned from Jobs:
He taught me many things but none more important than ‘do what you love’. That’s what he did every day. It wasn’t about fame, it wasn’t about fortune, it was about creating great products. And not accepting anything less than perfection.