![]() Which, was good enough to make one of the most valuable companies in the world. More of a Ne plus ultra Product Manager mind. Edwin Herbert Land, (born May 7, 1909, Bridgeport, Conn., U.S.died March 1, 1991, Cambridge, Mass.), American inventor and physicist whose one-step process for developing and printing photographs culminated in a revolution in photography unparalleled since the advent of roll film. Jobs was even more successful (broader product line) than Land at honing consumer products. But despite that, the similarities are enormous, too–Land may have been a brilliant scientist, but he was also a product-polisher, a control freak, and a showman. In 1973, when SX-70 was coming along, he ordered 10,000 red and yellow tulips so that they would fill the room. I think we went through this discussion when I published my original story, but there are also some striking differences between Jobs and Land–key among them that Jobs was a brilliant scientist who did indeed invent instant photography out of whole cloth. Land was the model for much of Steve Jobs’s showmanship. Land was saying: ‘I could see what the Polaroid camera should be. James: The parallels between Land and Jobs were so compelling that he almost devoted the entire article to exploring that subject. who eventually clashed with Jobs, was there for one meeting, when Jobs made a pilgrimage to Land’s labs in Cambridge, Mass., and wrote in his autobiography that both men described a singular experience: Dr. ![]() Much like Steve Jobs, founder Edwin Land was single-minded in his determination to. ![]() Harry, re: "parallels so compelling that THEY threatened to take over the article." Who are "they?" TIME? Amazingly epic piece on Polaroid and Land, by the way. Its easy to forget now, but instant camera maker Polaroid once matched the mythos and ubiquity of Apple. ![]()
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