The Real Steve Jobs
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- pango0
mehh the guy is dead.
don't care.
- 20120
But regardless, it doesn't really matter.
Every point of view being expressed is inevitable now.
Even if they didn't believe it, they would still write it because the "anti Steve Jobs" article will garner x number of hits and x number of Adwords payments. This thread is only helping.
- 20120
- CALLES0
i heard he also enjoyed doeble rainbows and was trying to give the rainbow logo a rainbow shadow
- CALLES0
ya'll a bunch o' bitches
- inteliboy0
Seems everyone's an expert when it comes to Steve Jobs personality traits...
- jon_d0
they redeemed with xp only after feeling the pressure of OSX
the direction of microsofts monopoly was firmly dictated with ME and Internet Explorer at the time.
- SteveJobs0
sounded more like a bitter rant. there's no problem with lauding him as a genious, visionary, and asshole all in the same breath, but only mentioning the latter leaves them sounding jilted.
- lowimpakt0
people being pretty liberal with the term "innovator"
- Josev0
I'm not going to apologize for Steve Job's worse behavior, because I think he went a little too far at times. But I will say that after having been in business for 17 years, being nice has mostly gotten me a bunch of mediocre shit. To produce the kind of successes he has you are more than likely going to step on a few people's toes. And I don't think he should get full blame for the conditions at the Chinese manufacturing facility. Many hardware companies use the same company to manufacture their products. I doubt they knew what the conditions were when they made the decision to use the facility. It would be nice if they worked towards changing them.
I'm not an Apple apologist. I've owned 28 macs and a few really really sucked (mostly early laptops) and Apple has had a history of not treating their customers well. I cant knock the guy, though.
- CALLES0
fuck it... i'll take a Zune anytime anyways
- mtthwsms0
well Gawker isn't the most trusted news source ever. However I understand the guy was probably an ass. I can really relate with the lack of empathy thing. My father and I really just weren't born with it. and before you jump on this train NO I'm not a mac fanboy. I owned and 2 generation old iPhone for 1 winter.
Brian, the guy behind the whole Gizmodo thing had this to say about Steve Jobs during the whole fiasco.
- instrmntl0
I can't say I like him considering he tried to eradicate my means of income, but at least Gawker could have waited til his corpse was cold. It's really in bad form.
- jon_d0
Im just mad at the people that put the man down just to hate on the fact that the trendies and media are celebrating him. But fine if your MO is too humanize a legend then so be it.
- GeorgesII0
jon_d give it up,
we don't need another apple apologist whom in 5 post will be insulting the other and taking it personally,nobody really cares if he was a dick or not,
we're all just mad that he's gone so soon and we can't focus or hate on anyone else ("yet")goddamm bill gates and his philanthropy bs!! can't hate him no more
- eieio0
Also he gets way too much credit for Pixar. Pixar needed a cash infusion to keep going and Jobs came along at the right time. He saw the potential and ponied up the dough but Pixar did their own thing. It doesn't take a visionary to see that Pixar were doing some cool things but it does take a millionair tech mogel to keep it in business.
- Sometimes it's luck and specially coming in to the right place at the right time.kgvs72
- jon_d0
But maybe I could.
- jon_d0
But yeah he was a dick. And I probably could not have worked for him either.
- jon_d0
I think you may just be feeling vindictive of the fact that the world lost a proven world-class innovator. One who did it not once with the Apple 1, not twice with the Apple Mac but 5x with the ipod, iphone and ipad.
Those guys don't come around many times.