Maybe This Will Help Improve Steve Jobs’s Bad Temper

Lenovo CEO Liu Chuanzhi, one year ago:

“We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China. If Apple were to spend the same effort on the Chinese consumer as we do, we would be in trouble.”

Joanna Stern, today, reviewing the iPad-alike Lenovo IdeaPad K1:

The IdeaPad K1 has been in development in one form or another for a year and a half, yet it still isn’t ready. And even if it had hit the market a year ago, it wouldn’t have been good enough (at least in its current form) to go head-to-head with the original iPad. The K1′s hardware is chunky and cheap-feeling, its screen is washed out, and the software is unstable to the point of being unusable at times.

★ Friday, 19 August 2011