By Chris Chang, posted Jul 6, 2010 at 11:54 AM, 2,927 views,

‘Steve Jobs has such a bad temper’, says Lenovo CEO

Lenovo Chairman and Founder, Liu Chuanzhi, is glad that his company is leading in PC sales of the Chinese market, all thanks to Steve Jobs. According to Liu’s conversation with The Financial Times, he notes that Lenovo would be in trouble if Apple cares about the Chinese market seriously…

Well, The Financial Times had an interview with Liu Chuanzhi the Lenovo CEO, and while speaking of Jobs the Apple CEO, he said something interesting:

“We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China. If Apple were to spend the same effort on the Chinese consumer as we do, we would be in trouble.”

Yeah, Lenovo is maybe the biggest PC maker in China now, where it holds around 30 percent of the Chinese market. However, Apple is going to open its second retail store in China and soon they will treat the Chinese market more seriously by opening up to 25 retail stores in the country within the next two years. So, do you think Lenovo could still be the king in China for the next few years? Other than that, Liu has also talked about the Lephone, Lenovo’s first signature product in the mobile market, by saying this:

“This is a very practical thing. The iPhone has more than 100,000 content providers, and we have no more than 1,000,”

“But our Chinese customers feel our applications are very convenient to use.”

Basically, the Lephone could only survive in China, since the device is specially customized for Chinese users. As we know, the Chinese market is important for global PC companies to produce a breakthrough on their products to make more revenues from it, and Lenovo CEO thinks Jobs is a “genius” to challenge this, he said:

“Steve Jobs is a genius. He is the exception to my rule,”

“My theory is that a manager needs to be the string on which he puts one pearl after another. But Jobs himself is a big pearl.”

Well, we can see that the Lenovo CEO is not treating Steve Jobs as “nobody”.

Source: The Financial Times via 9to5mac