Jobs can't get any respect. Nobody listens to him.

[Neshanic]

"Until October, no company had sold digital TV reruns directly to online consumers. That's when Jobs kicked the nascent online video market into gear with a historic deal with Walt Disney to sell $1.99 video downloads of its hit ABC shows for playback on computers and the new video iPod.

In both cases, Jobs' passion and powerful personality won the executives over, to forge deals that no one else had been able to pull off.

Now, Jobs is going Hollywood, as the single biggest shareholder of the most iconic of Hollywood studios: Disney.

Disney said Tuesday it is buying Pixar — the animation studio Jobs runs — for $7.5 billion and giving Pixar CEO Jobs a seat on the board of directors. Pixar President Ed Catmull will run both Pixar and Disney's ailing animation division.

"Steve will be a big voice in many respects, and that's a good thing," Disney CEO Bob Iger said Tuesday."

Oh goody! Propoganda on demand!

[eyesroll]

1. Didn't you post this already?

:shrug:

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[eyesroll]

4. Nope. Note I didn't say you could or could not post anything.

Just observing.

[Wonk]

3. It's his 4th thread today (by my count) bashing Steve Jobs.

Can you say "agenda" boys and girls? I knew ya could :-)

[Neshanic]

5. Cool...my first stalker!

[Wonk]

6. Nah, I just tend to notice spammers. nt

[MannyGoldstein]

7. Jobs Owns 7% of Disney

Jobs is the single largest owner of Disney stock. He could put an end to this revisionist history garbage in a heartbeat - I hope that he will.

[alfredo]

8. We don't know what is going on behind closed doors.

It seems that they have given in to some degree. Remember, he is just one member of the board.

Let's see what happens to Disney's stock friday. It dropped half a point today.

[Neshanic]

9. Alfredo...Steve wants his dinner now, and pick up his drycleaning.

[alfredo]

10. How much stock do you have in Dell? They're the ones

threatened by Jobs. They'd love to turn the public against him. Seems like Dell would be a perfect fit for you.

[Neshanic]

11. No I am a HP paramour. All my stuff is HP. Sorry, thanks though.

[alfredo]

13. They still in business?

[TheWraith]

18. Despite their last two CEOs' best efforts, yes. NT.

[alfredo]

20. She tried too much, and got away from their

money maker, printers. As far as I am concerned, printers are Epson and HP. Everybody and his brother makes computers.

[MannyGoldstein]

15. Given in to Some Degree?

It's very simple. Revisionist history on TV is a very, very bad thing - half a truth is the biggest lie of all. As it happens, I don't like Bill Clinton. But making up fantasies and pretending it's the truth is no way to go about doing anything.

First, the faux history program should have been axed immediately once ABC/Disney found out that it was bogus. Next, the people responsible should be fired.

The longer that ABC/Disney/Disney Directors wait to do this, the more apparent it becomes that they are not well-intentioned.

[alfredo]

16. They're on the defensive. I watched the ABC news to see

how they would handle the situation. They came across very defensive.

[snowbear]

12. Steve Jobs is one of the good guys though...

Good luck to him with Pixar!

[BlooInBloo]

14. Yah - on the board of Disney & largest single shareholder...

... great guy...

Yah, go ahead and tell me how disney did it without his knowledge - on the board & largest shareholder. Either with or without his knowledge, he's a piece of crap.

Enjoy your mac-superiority complexes all!

[alfredo]

17. Do you know his stance on this issue? Is he in support of ABC's

showing the movie, or is he against it?

He's not on the board of ABC so I don't know how much influence he will have there.

[snowbear]

21. Well.. of course I could be wrong..

Nut I'm betting that Steve Jobs has ZERO, NADA, ZILCH to do with this 'The Path to 9/11' garbage..

If he is somehow and I'm wrong, I'm sorry..

Until I see proof that he was involved though, he's not on my suspician list..

[alfredo]

22. If he has chimed in on this issue, I don't think he would do it

in public. He might have put sparks on the asses of Disney officers, but that is between them.

When he sold Pixar to Disney he had just recovered from Pancratic Cancer. By selling to Disney he ensured his kids would be taken care of if things didn't work out for him. The stock he got in the deal is for his kids. He made that clear when he spoke of the deal.

Generally he is very discreet about he personal, corporate, and political life. He understands that what he does and says in public can have an effect on how his business is perceived. Coming out for or against the movie has an effect on tens of thousands of people that depend on him at Apple and businesses associated with Apple. For him to take a public stance would not be in the best interest of his investors and employees.

[Beelzebud]

23. Yeah I love his sweatshop built I-Pods!

Apple has gotten a free pass for far too long...

[alfredo]

19. BTW, is Steve Jobs on the board of ABC? Does a board

member of Disney have any influence over the board of a subsidiary?