Steve Jobs on iPhone Apps: A Muslim Community Idea
What Jobs talks about
In this short exchange, a developer tells Steve Jobs that he spent part of his weekend at the mosque and the rest working on a weekend project: an iPhone app for the Muslim community. Jobs immediately engages, asking what the app would do and signaling that he wants to hear more.
The clip is brief, but it captures Jobs in a product-conversation mode: curious, direct, and focused on the actual use case. The interaction centers on whether the idea has a clear purpose and enough substance to justify the pitch.
Because the source recording and date are not identified, the page should stay tightly grounded in the transcript itself rather than making assumptions about the setting or broader context.
Jobs and Selim Nagy speak; the developer does most of the talking.
In his words
“What's the project about?”
“I'm building an iPhone app for the Muslim community.”
“And what would the app do exactly for the Muslim community?”
“You got my attention.”
“This better be good.”
Key points
- A developer is building an iPhone app for the Muslim community.
- Jobs asks for the app’s exact purpose and functionality.
- He shows interest only after hearing there is a concrete code prototype.
- The moment reflects Jobs’s insistence on clarity and usefulness.
- The exchange is extremely brief and context-light, so the page should not overstate it.
Full transcript
Selim Nagy. How was your weekend? It was great, Mr. Jobs. I had some time off. I went to the mosque. But I spent the rest of my time working on my weekend project. Weekend project? Interesting. What's the project about? Well, I'm building an iPhone app for the Muslim community. An iPhone app for the Muslim community? And what would the app do exactly for the Muslim community? That's why I insisted that I actually meet you, Mr. Jobs. I'd like to show you the code I wrote so far. Okay, Nagy. You got my attention. This better be good.
Transcribed from the audio with OpenAI Whisper. Timestamps link to the video above. Errors are possible.