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Николай Товеровский

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A one-minute clip of Steve Jobs saying Microsoft has no taste. It is vintage interview footage about design and product sensibility.

“It's great vintage Steve Jobs.” (HN, 2024)

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@kemayo Apr 2024 Recommends

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The whole snippet, for anyone who hasn't seen it: [this video] (It's great vintage Steve Jobs. He's trying to sound high-minded for a documentary-interview, but he really can't resist getting some digs in.)

Vintage Jobs interview snippet with digs at Microsoft

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@deanCommie Oct 2020 Cites it

on HN thread PS5 Teardown [video]

> Microsoft who drew a box in AutoCad and called it a day "Microsoft has no taste": [this video] as true now as it was in the early 90's.

Jobs on Microsoft having no taste

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@bschwindHN Feb 2026 Cites it

on HN thread 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

> The AI rip-off was not just ugly. It was careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently. That pretty much describes Microsoft and all they do. Money can't buy taste. He was right: [this video]

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