Apple’s Steve Jobs transformed the consumer electronics industry – repeatedly achieving what had previously been thought impossible. Macintosh engineer Bud Tribble described Jobs’ near-mystical ...

“Steve has a reality distortion field… In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything.” –Bud Tribble on Steve Jobs Not too long ago, I became fascinated with the ...

The iPhone has not only changed the definition of success for Apple ( AAPL), but has altered the perception required to properly sense reality. Similar to the dynamic that exists between rivaling ...

I’m baffled. As an industry observer and analyst who studies this industry and the companies within it, I am baffled by how Wall Street thinks about Apple. I do, however, have a theory. It’s called ...

Apple's iPhone 5 launch with new iPods and an iTunes overhaul highlights the new era at the company that revolves around incremental updates, design prowess, and control of an entire user experience.

You know things are bad in the Apple (AAPL) ecosystem when the company tries to explain its side of some controversy. The latest Apple reality distortion field targets the exploding location-tracking ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Something struck me after reading “Becoming Steve Jobs.” It wasn’t the ...

So why does Steve Jobs miss the mark? How is the whole so much less than the sum of its parts? The problem lies in Aaron Sorkin's script. Like Jobs, Sorkin has a tendency to bend reality to fit his ...

Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs mentions the “reality distortion field” (RDF) about 34 times. It describes the charismatic power of the genius leader who could force his team to breach the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The sheer power of Silicon Valley’s reality distortion field was on full ...