He actually wasn't that passionate about enterprise stuff, but could clearly make it look like he was in important events like this. I think at this time, he was getting tired of NeXT and was looking to sell the company so he could focus on Pixar, or something like that. He was really tired of the computer business. I remember seeing an interview with him from around the same time period where the interviewer asked him to talk about NeXT's enterprise stuff and the response was something like "You don't really want to hear about that right? It's not really that interesting."

That was the 1995 Cringley interview. About 54 minutes in. "You don't really want to hear about NeXT, do you?" was the exact statement. And he claims that innovation in the computer industry is in software within seconds.

I think Jobs' response was more about disarming the perceived courtesy. While polite to ask Jobs about what he was doing with NeXT in 1995, the highlight of his career (and general interest) would be with Apple and to a lesser degree, Pixar.

Kind of like talking to a rock legend about their latest album, when most people care about their breakout period.

> What is fascinating to me was seeing how passionate he was on a product like it was his life goal while talking, and a few years later totally focused on another completely different thing. > It is impressive to me since I am having hard time to let go my little hobby projects and start another one, while he is doing it on much higher level with the same passion. Respect on that.

He's the world's greatest used car salesman.