Steve Jobs: The monk who left India to make i-Products

[rug]

PTI | Oct 6, 2011, 02.46PM IST

NEW DELHI: "Three apples have changed the world. One seduced Eve, second awakened Newton, the third one was in the hands of Jobs."

This was one of the most widely circulated messages doing the rounds of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and elsewhere on internet after the untimely demise of Steve Jobs, the visionary entrepreneur and the force behind the US-based global technology giant Apple.

Much before embarking on the path of giving the world iconic products like Mac computers, iPod music players, iPhone mobile phones and iPad tablet PCs, this cult figure of the world of technology came to India in early 70s in search of enlightenment or 'nirvana' and went back unsatisfied.

He found India far poorer than he had imagined at that time and, ironically, years later in mid-2000s, when he thought of setting up a facility for Apple's Mac computers, India appeared to be much less cost-effective to do business.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/hardware/Steve-Jobs-The-monk-who-left-India-to-make-i-Products/articleshow/10255558.cms

[Myrina]

1. A monk wouldn't "give up" because India was "poorer than he imagined" ...

D'oh.

[Jim__]

2. Saying he "gave up" is putting a spin on it.

You could also spin it to say that in his short visit, he became enlightened:

His biography, titled 'The Little Kingdom -- The Private Story of Apple Computer' quotes Jobs as saying that "It was one of the first times that I started to realise that maybe Thomas Edison did a lot more to improve the world than Karl Marx and Neem Kairolie Baba put together."

[ChadwickHenryWard]

3. The first two "apples" never happened.