“I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check.”

— Steve Jobs

On why he delayed the Leopard OS in favor of developing the iPhone rather than hiring more developers, at the annual Apple stockholder's meeting (10 May 2007) as quoted in "Apple's Jobs brushes aside backdating concerns" at c|net News (10 May 2007) http://archive.is/20130628220833/http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6182965.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news Variant: I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check … if so, then Microsoft would have great products. As quoted in "Apple iPhone: more secrets revealed" (11 May 2007) http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/mac/news/apple-iphone-jobs-spills-more-secrets?articleid=1431998781 2005-09 Context: I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

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