Mr. Deutschman, a reporter who has worked for Fortune and GQ and is now a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, says that Mr. Jobs took delight in humiliating Apple employees.
To Mr Jobs's delight, the iPod's market share has grown from about one-third to two-thirds in the past year, at the expense of much cheaper "flash" players (iPods use hard discs to store music, rather than flash-memory cards).
To those on the outside, the couple seemed content, spending time together on a quiet block in Brooklyn, working at solid city-paid jobs and delighting in their infant son.
"It's a very unrewarding job but the delight I get is from seeing the delight on people's faces.
Our job is to delight consumers in their free time, and yet I believe in doing it in a really responsible way".
Lipscomb had recommended Henderson for the job, and was delighted when General Koster approved the choice.
Jobs wanted to delight customers, and now there were customers who wanted to be delighted.
9.29pm: The stimulus act will bring tax cuts, jobs and general delight to all and sundry -- but it must be undertaken responsibly, and with no waste.
Then he said, very deliberately, "You know who's the only person I ever heard of who said 'I love it' as much as I love this job?" He paused, delighting in what was coming, and smiled.
Li's last message on Chinese social media website Weibo was sent on 5 September, saying: "I love this job and am delighted for your encouragement, my career is the fight of my life, your encouragement is my greatest happiness".
