Samsung
Samsung is one of the world’s largest and most influential technology companies, founded in 1938 in Daegu by Lee Byung-chul. Today, it is headquartered in Seoul.
At its core, Samsung is a conglomerate — meaning it’s not just one company, but a group of many businesses under one brand.
Samsung is a massive, vertically integrated tech empire that designs and manufactures everything from core components to finished consumer products.
US
The United States of America (USA) is a country in North America. It has 50 states, a federal capital Washington, D.C., and several territories.
The USA was founded in 1776 after gaining independence from British rule. It is known for its democratic system, with a president as the head of government and a constitution that protects citizens’ rights.
The country is very diverse, both culturally and geographically. It has large cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, as well as mountains, deserts, forests, and long coastlines. People from many different countries live in the United States, making it a multicultural society.
Object Oriented
Jeff Goodell: Would you explain, in simple terms, exactly what object-oriented software is?
Steve Jobs: Objects are like people. They’re living, breathing things that have knowledge inside them about how to do things and have memory inside them so they can remember things. And rather than interacting with them at a very low level, you interact with them at a very high level of abstraction, like we’re doing right here. Here’s an example: If I’m your laundry object, you can give me your dirty clothes and send me a message that says, “Can you get my clothes laundered, please.” I happen to know where the best laundry place in San Francisco is. And I speak English, and I have dollars in my pockets. So I go out and hail a taxicab and tell the driver to take me to this place in San Francisco. I go get your clothes laundered, I jump back in the cab, I get back here. I give you your clean clothes and say, “Here are your clean clothes.” You have no idea how I did that. You have no knowledge of the laundry place. Maybe you speak French, and you can’t even hail a taxi. You can’t pay for one, you don’t have dollars in your pocket. Yet I knew how to do all of that. And you didn’t have to know any of it. All that complexity was hidden inside of me, and we were able to interact at a very high level of abstraction. That’s what objects are. They encapsulate complexity, and the interfaces to that complexity are high level."
