[mrich]

  However apple has been know as a being a
  brilliant kid with short attention span and
  tantrums to remember.

It is interesting how companies often exhibit traits of their influential founders. This would be a good characterization of Jobs.

[tsieling]

A short attention span. Really. You think you build a digital ecosystem around premium hardware and breaking content licensing logjams and forcing open the price of cellular data with a short attention span. That's.... interesting.