Apple's Next Reality Distorter: Jimmy Iovine

In 1981, Bud Tribble, Apple’s VP of software technology, referred to Steve Jobs’ charisma and its affects on Macintosh developers as a “reality distortion field.”

Jobs’ reality distortion field was not lost on music mogul and new Apple employee, Jimmy Iovine, who spoke at the Code conference four hours after officially selling Beats Electronics to Apple for $3 billion.

From The New York Times’ Bits blog:

Mr. Iovine’s irrepressible spirit — and his willingness to simply declare something to be reality regardless of the complexity of the facts — bears a marked resemblance to the “reality distortion field” that Mr.