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What about OpenDoc?
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What about OpenDoc?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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What about it?
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I don't know.
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It's dead, right?
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Huh?
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It's dead, right?
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I don't know.
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I spent a lot of time working on it.
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Yeah.
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I'm sad.
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Well, you know, let me say something that's sort of generic.
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I know some of you spent a lot of time working on stuff that we put a bullet in the head of.
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I apologize.
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I feel your pain.
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But Apple suffered for several years from lousy engineering management.
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I have to say it.
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And there were people that were going off in 18 different directions, doing arguably interesting things in each one of them.
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Good engineers.
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Lousy management.
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And what happened was you look at the farm that's been created with all these different animals going in different directions, and it doesn't add up.
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The total is less than the sum of the parts.
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And so we had to decide what are the fundamental directions we're going in and what makes sense and what doesn't.
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And there were a bunch of things that didn't.
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and microcosmically they might have made sense, macrocosmically they made no sense.
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And, you know, the hardest thing is, when you think about focusing, right, you think, well, focusing is saying yes,
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no. Focusing is about saying no. Focusing is about saying no. And you've got to say no,
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no, no, no. And when you say no, you piss off people.
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And they go talk to the San Jose Mercury and they write a shitty article about you.
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You know?
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And it's really a pisser.
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because you want to be nice.
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You don't want to tell the San Jose Mercury, the person that's telling you this,
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you know, just was asked to leave or this or that or this or that.
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So you take the lumps.
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And Apple's been taking their share of lumps for the last six months in a very unfair way.
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And it's been taking them, you know, like an adult.
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And I'm proud of that.
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And there's more to come, I'm sure.
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There's more to come.
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I mean, some of these, I read these articles about some of these people that have left.
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I know some of these people.
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They haven't done anything in seven years.
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And, you know, they leave and it's like, you know, it's like the company's going to fall apart the next day.
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And so, you know, I think there'll be stories like that that come and go.
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But focus is about saying no.
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And the result of
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that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.
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And OpenDoc, I mean, I was for putting a bullet in the head of OpenDoc.
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A, I didn't think it was great technology, but B, it didn't fit the rest of the world isn't going to use OpenDoc.
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And I think as a container strategy, there's some stuff in the Java space that's much better.
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And even the OpenDoc guys were basically trying to rewrite the whole thing in Java anyway, which was a restart.
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So it didn't make sense.

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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion

Diese Sprechübung basiert auf dem Video „"Focusing is about saying no" - Steve Jobs“. Diese Wörter kommen am häufigsten vor: Opendoc, focusing, sense, directions. Dieses Video enthält 55 Sätze und 528 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 2:59. Der Sprecher spricht in natürlichem Tempo, etwa 177 Wörter pro Minute, ähnlich wie im Alltagsgespräch. 85 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen; den Rest solltest du dir vor dem Üben ansehen.

Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video

12 lernenswerte Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:

WortAusspracheBedeutung
bullet Substantiv/ˈbʊlɪt/Kugel, Ball
lump Substantiv/lʌmp/Klumpen, Kloß
suffer Verb/ˈsʌfɚ/leiden
fundamental Adjektiv/ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/grundlegend, fundamental
unfair Adjektiv/ʌnˈfɛɚ/unfair, ungerecht
apologize Verb/əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/sich entschuldigen
generic Adjektiv/dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪk/allgemein, generisch
container Substantiv/kənˈteɪ.nəɹ/Behälter, Behältnis
arguably Adverb/ˈɑɹɡjuəbli/vertretbarerweise, wohl
restart Verb/ˈɹiːˌstɑɹt/neustarten
lousy Adjektiv/ˈlaʊ.zi/lausig
rewrite Verb/ɹiˈɹaɪt/umschreiben

Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst

WortBedeutung
fall apart Verbauseinanderfallen

Grammatik in diesem Video

Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:

StrukturIm Video
Present Perfect Continuous have/has been + -ing – eine Handlung, die früher begann und noch andauertApple's been taking · it's been taking
Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig istthat's been created · have left · haven't done
Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tutbeen created · was asked

Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest

Der Sprecher verwendet 17 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel didn't, don't, I'm. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.

  • Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/

Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:

  • /dʒ/ — stimmhaft, nicht „tsch“: apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, generic /dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪk/

So übst du mit diesem Video

  1. Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
  2. Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
  3. Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie bullet, lump, suffer.

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