Steve Jobs had extremely many ideas, few of them were extraordinary, but many of them were unusual and were never put into practice. I have already told you about the attempt to offer a golden ticket to the person who buys the one millionth iMac and now I'm telling you about Jobs' attempt to make one Mac OS 9 free but which would have displayed ads to users. Jobs wanted to sell software updates to users, as Microsoft does, but the worst part is the ads that would upset any Mac owner.
Steve Jobs and his team at Apple explored the possibility of shipping a free, ad-supported version of Mac OS 9. Segall says Jobs was considering the option because of the profit potential inherent in selling software updates: "this is how Microsoft does it... it's like printing money," Jobs said. The plan was to give users a sixty-second commercial upon starting up the system that would be remotely updated by Apple, and to place ads elsewhere in the OS where they had the most relevance.
Steve Jobs wanted to display a 1-minute advertisement when the Mac opened, but that's not all because advertisements would have appeared in the interface of the operating system while you were using it, so the experience would have been terrible. Of course, in the end it didn't come to that and the decision was extremely good because a lot of people would have given up on Macs, and those who wouldn't have found a way to remove those ads and Apple didn't anyway he would have made some money. Of course, these are just some of Jobs's ideas and I am sure that there are others and more "interesting" that have not been told.
