If nice guys finish last, then perhaps Steve Jobs is the type of guy who finishes first. This morning, we've been thumbing through the just-released Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, one that profiles a relentless perfectionist, a brilliant innovator, and a tough personality with incredible consumer instincts. A guy who changed the world.
But it also reveals someone capable of incredible cruelty, total self-delusion, ruthless competitiveness, arrogance, and a
penchant for stealing ideas. It's probably the most raw profile the world has ever seen on Jobs - for better, or for worse. And it also offers a rather naked commentary about success.
Here are just a few examples that surfaced in this 656 page tome.
(1) Steve Jobs was a deadbeat dad for many years.
In 1978, Steve Jobs had a daughter (his first) with girlfriend Chrisann Brennan, a painter. Jobs adamantly refused paternity, though a judge ultimately forced Jobs to pay support.
After that, Jobs reluctantly became a deadbeat dad, while focusing religiously on his other baby, Apple. "Lisa Brennan, however, did not have a great childhood," Isaacson writes. "When she was young, her father almost never came to see her. 'I didn't want to be a father, so I wasn't,' Jobs said, with only a touch of remorse in his voice."
Isaacson writes that later, Steve did drop by sporadically. But it was so infrequent that when Lisa was three she had no idea who the guy was.
(2) Steve Jobs drove his Mercedes around without a license plate, and parked in handicapped spots.
Isaacson: "He had a great Mercedes sports coupe with no license plate on it... he felt the normal rules just shouldn't apply to him."
60 Minutes host Steve Kroft: "Parking in handicapped spots?"
Isaacson: "Yeah."
(3) He was famous for taking all the credit.
Apple's famous designer, Jonathan Ive, was frustrated because Steve was constantly taking credit for his ideas. It was a recurring problem, with incredibly talented executives complaining that Jobs took all the credit for Apple's game-changing innovations. "I pay maniacal attention to where an idea comes from, and I even keep notebooks filled with my ideas," Ive said. "So it hurts when he takes credit for one of my designs."
(4) Jobs regarded most people in his life as 'replaceable'.
Laughably, Jobs' wife Laurene offered a bizarre back-handed compliment to Jony, perhaps Apple's MVP. "Most people in Steve's life are replaceable. But not Jony."
But there's a flip side: Ive was also "soulmates" with Jobs, and realized that his innovations would be nowhere without his brilliant leader. "The ideas that come from me and my team would have been completely irrelevant, nowhere, if Steve hadn't been here to push us, work with us, and drive through all the resistance to turn our ideas into products," Ive told Isaacson.
(5) Jobs had no problem stiffing some of the earliest Apple innovators.
Perhaps the worst story surrounds Daniel Kottke, who was there with Jobs at Reed College, travelled with him in India, and was one of the first Apple employees in the garage. But when Apple went public, Jobs refused to give him any shares because of his technical status within the company - despite the protests of other high-ranking employees.
Kottke was unfortunately subdued and didn't push - until it became too much. "And at one point, [Kottke] tries to go to Steve and just starts crying," Isaacson told 60 Minutes. "But Steve can be very cold about these things. Finally, one of the engineers at Apple said, you know, 'We have to take care of your buddy Daniel. I'll give him some stock, if you match it or whatever.' And Jobs says, 'Yeah, I'll match it. I'll give zero, you give zero.'"
(6) He showed little interest in philanthropy, despite being one of the richest people on the planet.
from the book...
"Jobs was never much interested in philanthropy, but he agreed to a special red iPod as part of Bono's campaign. It was not a wholehearted commitment," Isaacson relays.
and...
"Bill [Gates] is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why he's more comfortable in philanthropy than technology," Jobs sneeringly told Isaacson.
Comments Closed
Maxwellian Monday, October 24, 2011
Not sure I'm agreeing with the premise that people apply to this. You can always excuse everything --- parking in handicap spots was his disregard for rules and society and "lines" that Microsoft adhered to for example. But maybe he wouldhave been a BETTER leader and force had he matured in these respects.
:MW
bill gates Tuesday, October 25, 2011
no im sure thats just him being a douche
You Win Tuesday, October 25, 2011
You, Sir, just made my day.
thecrippler Tuesday, October 25, 2011
as a handicapped person, i can honestly say who fucking cares? making me walk a few more steps isnt going to ruin my day.
re-douche'd
thecripplerer Tuesday, October 25, 2011
You know, for some handicapped people it can be quite painful to walk (or even move), and there isn't always going to be another parking spot "a few more steps away", especially if all of the handicapped spots are taken.
douche
nice1 Friday, December 30, 2011
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Pat Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Handicapped or not, you are a moron. You must be extremely dull to generalize the rest of the handicapped population based on your own handicap.
chiangshih Tuesday, November 08, 2011
iSorry But Steve Jobs Was a Dick
http://www.pointsincase.com/columns/andrei-trostel/steve-jobs-was-dick
Me! Wednesday, October 26, 2011
douche!!
koss Wednesday, October 26, 2011
He didn't NEED to park in the handicap spot. He could've BUILT his own parking spot 100ft x 100ft right next to the building entrance. No but he wanted to SHOW people that he could and would do this by parking at the handicap spot.
Lee J. Wednesday, October 26, 2011
The REAL Bill Gates??
jony Tuesday, October 25, 2011
yup because parking in handicap spots is really sticking it to the man! get your head out your ass, fanboy
blah Tuesday, October 25, 2011
FWIW i remember reading a few years ago that the reason he had no plates was that they kept getting stolen off the car by people who knew it was his. so eventually he just gave up. not so much about breaking the rules.
Visitor Wednesday, October 26, 2011
like all of us, he made choices, and he lived with the consequences...
douched Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Not exactly, he's dead.
That guy Saturday, October 29, 2011
Yea i agree with that one dude...i think he was
John Wednesday, November 16, 2011
I must add - Steve Jobs (a.k.a. steve jobs) was a typical "American" (USA): arrogant, greedy, self-centered, rude, completely lacked respect and dignity, never kept his promises, had no soul to speak of, he was a robot and his technology won't last long. Rest in hell, steve!
CTyankee Monday, October 24, 2011
utterly fearless review. thank you.
Seth Keller Monday, October 24, 2011
Great headline, Paul.
Not surprising that a billionaire might have been a dick. The thing is, he probably didn't have a problem with that.
@BigChampagne Monday, October 24, 2011
@PatrickTrojman Monday, October 24, 2011
Patrick Trojman
Some things you didn't know about Steve Jobs...
@WFMU Monday, October 24, 2011
WFMU
Let the un-deification of Steve Jobs begin: "Parking in handicapped spots?!"
alan palanker Monday, October 24, 2011
Steve Jobs, a destroyer of industry, competition, copyright, creative thought,finance, and the human condition.
Thank You,
ALAN
lostjohn Tuesday, October 25, 2011
agreed. but he did it all with "shiny"
@aknetig Monday, October 24, 2011
Alexander Knetig
Ça fait du bien quand-même
PigBrother Wednesday, October 26, 2011
I doubt that capitalism made him an asshole.
Oh.My.God. Monday, October 24, 2011
Breaking news: Steve Jobs was a capitalist.
sceduenga Monday, October 24, 2011
"Steve Jobs drove his Mercedes around without a license plate, and parked in handicapped spots."
And he drove like a maniac. Almost ran over a friend of mine one day driving into Bubb 8. Didn't bother apologizing, after all he was "steve" and my friend was a nobody...
RighteousDeuce Tuesday, October 25, 2011
If it makes you feel any better, I almost hit Steve with my car while driving too fast in the main parking lot in front of 1 Infinite Loop. He just raised a hand, smiled, and walked away. Maybe he knew he had it coming ;-)
BruceLD Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Don't forget...he also stole the ENTIRE "windows" idea from Xerox. For some reason...everyone seems to forget that.
He did not change the world. Computers are not a force of nature. What he did will one day dissappear completely from this planet. He changed absolutely nothing.
Steve can suck it.
Robbie Tuesday, October 25, 2011
He had a business arrangement with xerox that entitled him to their research. Plus, did you see what the interface was like. Completely unusable for the average consumer, which was their target market. Execution, not just innovation is where apple delivers.
Yes, he was an asshole but he produced results in the goal to give computing an appeal to average person. And he succeeded.
Dan Isaacs Tuesday, October 25, 2011
"The trains ran on time, so STFU." FTFY.
Daeng Bo Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Correction: _Management_ didn't know what they had. The engineers were reportedly quite furious that all their innovative work was basically given away because management couldn't or didn't want to figure it out.
Vincent Tuesday, October 25, 2011
In defense of SJ on this particular subject, xerox had no clue what they had and what to do with it. The problem is that people don't always realize innovative ideas when they have it, nor how to properly execute it.
Art is copy, and as Einstein said, the key to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Butler Lampson Friday, October 28, 2011
What an incredibly stupid statement: the inventors of the technology didn't know what they had until Steve Jobs showed them. You're a fucking idiot.
@GregorySteak Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Gregory Steak
Ah! Steve Jobs n'a pas foulé le mont Sinai.
@gearjunkies Tuesday, October 25, 2011
GearJunkies
Why am I not surprised...?
MisterSoftee Tuesday, October 25, 2011
May I suggest an alternate book title?
"That Fucking Dick: The Authorized Biography of Steve Jobs"
jason miles Tuesday, October 25, 2011
He was a great innovator that's the deal. He was not a saint and who knows if he was a good person.I'm not judyging him on that.
Welsome to the world-because you're a genius doesn't mean you're not an asshole
Levi Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Jobs was NOT an innovator at all. Just brilliant at marketing and packaging.
Jobs is an asshole for not thanking musicians for saving Apple, which is a fact.
Then again, Bill Gates saved Apple as well by giving Jobs $250 million to avoid bankruptcy.
ninja Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Steve Jobs may have been an asshole, and he may have bought many companies that he didn't create himself, and he may have hired a lot of people who created the designs for his products, but:
if you think he's not an innovator, you're an idiot.
he transformed personal computing. he is a business strategist and marketer. you don't have to be a techie to innovate.
please grow up.
Ned T Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Isn't it ironic Steve Jobs got cancer around the time he released the iPod?
Is it bad karma?
Austin Tuesday, October 25, 2011
That is NOT irony. -_- Coincidence is NOT irony.
Jim Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Musicians saved Apple? Not according to the balance sheet.
lostjohn Tuesday, October 25, 2011
yeah cause i only ever stored .txt files on my ipod...
aweraw Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Yeah, they did. iPod's aren't a very compelling product if you don't have music to play on them. Without musicians and their art, the iPod is a glorified paper weight.
theBeefy Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Isn't it still a glorified paperweight? Only a glorified paperweight you can play music off of...
@Tampa_Rick Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Planet T Music
You just never know...
Mercy Son!
Haha Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Really , the rules don't apply to parking in spot's that apply to people that have been physically injured ? (Im talking about actual hurt people not the fatties) Wow he must have really been a rebel.....jump on apple's nuts some more.
@LadyMusic Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Meredith D'Agostino
Interesting - Steve Jobs not such a great guy after all?
Y Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Steve obviously wasn't your normal, average person - and that has its good and bad sides. End of story.
urAdouche Tuesday, October 25, 2011
You're right, he wasn't normal. He was an asshole that became hugely successful because of other people's hard work, and threw temper tamtrums to get what he wanted. Bottom line.
Trudee Tuesday, October 25, 2011
All this talk about Steve Jobs reminds me of a joke I once heard...
When God created man, all the parts of the body wanted to be boss. The brain, because without it, humans can't think. The eyes chimed in, because without them, we can't see. The legs also applied because without them we can't walk.
Then the asshole applied for the job, and all the body parts laughed hysterically at him. Well, he got so mad he closed up. In a short while, the brain got foggy, the eyes couldn't see straight and the legs too wobbly for walking. It finally became so bad they conceded to their new boss.
This just proves you don't need a brain to be boss. Just an asshole!
@damnitjes Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Jes
Steve Jobs was a douche.
@chuckgreenwalt Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Chuck
To the Apple faithful...
wheelchair bound Tuesday, October 25, 2011
this is a picture taken of Steve Jobs' car
Lumberg Wednesday, October 26, 2011
striking resemblance.
@pseudoremora Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Andrew Holcomb
Bio basically confirms Steve was a huge douche. Not really surprised.
MR Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Not sure why all the venom toward Jobs.
Instead of giving to philanthropy he invested in a business that impacted the entire world. Philanthropy is way over rated. It's more a status symbol rather than a way to really improve the world.
Sure he copied lots of other people's stuff - everyone in life does that. He surely had some good ideas as well which he executed on with amazing brilliance.
He had no tolerance for lameness and look at the results - tremendous accomplishments.
For every sucessful person you can find haters - some may really have been slighted, but my guess is many more are just envious or lazy.
So what he didn't put on a license plate. So what he parked in a handicapped spot. Big deal. I think capper spots are over-rated in a society where you can get one for being gluttonous and over weight.
Jobs was better than most people. His contributions reflect that. We are not all equal contributors to society.
JDog Tuesday, October 25, 2011
MR
Don't be an idiot.
Steve Jobs made nice toys for 1st world people. He didn't save the world.
Go speak to a man in Africa whose life was spared by a mosquito net provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, so that he didn't die of malaria. Ask him if he thinks the iPad 2 is that much better than the iPad 1.
@tranhelen Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Helen Tran
Best comment
femi Tuesday, October 25, 2011
For the win!!!!
i like apples. Wednesday, October 26, 2011
couldnt have said it better myself.
Valeria Saturday, October 29, 2011
Great comment.
lostjohn Tuesday, October 25, 2011
and Alfred Nobel should have stopped with the invention of dynamite too.
Q Tuesday, October 25, 2011
"So what.."? Are you serious? So, you will let him do anything he wants "to you" because he earned it, right, with his great contributions to the world?
Visitor Tuesday, October 25, 2011
@scrottie Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Scott Walters
is this the Steve Jobs you worship? If so, no wonder I find Apple sycophants distasteful.
Rob Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Yes he was not perfect ... nobody is. But this article is nothing by click bait. It caught me ... LOL!
@DreamnetRob
bill42 Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Dude changed all of our lives. So he had some issues like any genius. His kindness towards friends and family is not why we celebrate him though. This article only focuses on 1/10000 of the biography.
If not for Jobs, Apple would never have existed. We would still be using DOS and inputting instructions with a keyboard with no mouse, and all our green screen monitors would have fixed width characters!
Every computer and phone you use to make a living on or organize your life on was heavily influenced by inventions that Jobs discovered or perfected in a way that only apple could.
asshole Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Your sir are wrong. Yet i am still compelled to call you an asshole.
ha ha your dumb Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart when Steve was 8 years old. I am pretty sure he wasn't working at Stanford, nor do I think Engelbart stole the idea from him.
realist Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Without Steve Jobs, the people he employed would probably have been hired by Microsoft or something anyway. So it wouldn't really have mattered.
d Thursday, October 27, 2011
Yeah man, it's not like somebody made something called windows.
@itismemathew Tuesday, October 25, 2011
mathewhoyland
great article about a bad man
@Azizur Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Azizur Rahman
The flip side of Steve Jobs... No Mr. Nice Guy
Andrew Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Where is the rest of the article??? It just ends like that??
AppleFan Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Haters gonna hate.
dude Tuesday, October 25, 2011
I always thought it was pretty obvious he was a huge doushe. Him and his snooty image with that queerbait turtleneck, parading around like some classy europop icon.
Kevin Tuesday, October 25, 2011
It's Jony Ive (not Ivy)
Tyr Tuesday, October 25, 2011
(1) Steve Jobs was a deadbeat dad for many years.
People ALWAYS leave out the part where they reconciled, Lisa moved in with his family and he put her through Harvard. Also you neglect the fact the biography specifically mentions this is one of his great regrets in life.
(2) Steve Jobs drove his Mercedes around without a license plate, and parked in handicapped spots.
Actual asshole-ish behavior
(3) He was famous for taking all the credit.
Name a designer from any other (non fashion) company. Jon Ive is more in the spotlight than any of his peers.
(4) Jobs regarded most people in his life as 'replaceable'.
Note that the quote is attributed to his wife, not Jobs.
(5) Jobs had no problem stiffing some of the earliest Apple innovators.
So he didn't give everything away. Don't mix friendship with business. No matter where you draw that ine people were going to be left out.
(6) He showed little interest in philanthropy, despite being one of the richest people on the planet.
Actually he's been donating to a charity for blind children in India since before he was a milionaire. What he doesn't do is American type philantropy where you very publicly trade your ill-gotten gains for influence with the right people like other billionaires.
@slaterdesign Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Nick Slater
Wow... totally didn't know this about Steve Jobs... I'll keep my opinion to myself...
@avijitsharma Tuesday, October 25, 2011
avijitsharma
This Jobs book looks to be very straight and unbiased. Jobs iconic status might be hurt.
Visitor Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Ives, Not Ivy. Do your research.
Fran Tuesday, October 25, 2011
"I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this. I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion [£25bn] in the bank, to right this wrong."- Steve Jobs
Ahiru77 Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Okay, alright, we get it. He's the TOTAL opposite of Michael Jackson.
Just appreciate the guy for his work.....don't put him on a freakin pedestal.
And please try to call out on people when they're around, maybe you would've gotten to him somehow.
@skymayhew Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Sky Mayhew
Let's all be just like Steve Jobs
@MikShaBer Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Michael Bergen
There's always two sides to every story. You decide what you want to believe.
totes Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Wow so he's an asshole like everyone else? (I say this because one way or the other, we're dicking somebody over). Wasn't this known already?
Some of these points are questionable.
And how does one 'reluctantly' become a deadbeat dad? Was some Apple VP secretly forcing him not to see his Lisa? Funny how he named a product after her...
I think most people respect him for his impact on technology and for turning around a shipping ship that was late 90s Apple. Not for his 'warm' personality.
@Shre_S Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Shreyas
Can't wait to read Jobs' bio now.
Bill Gates Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Jobs was a douche. No one even mentions the inventor of Unix whom died the same week. e was a true innovator. He is the reason our internet actually works. You Apple cult followers have no idea what technology really is.
Fred Sanford Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Apple has always been about dumbing things down. Windows is about setting people free to be as complex as they want. E.G. Apple rejected the right mouse button.
Mark my words...Apple will turn out to be another AOL.
When you are first at something - and create a closed system...everything is gravy. But after a few years people realize they are paying more for something that gives them less freedom. E.G. Why continue to pay AOL after the open web emerged? The only thing you get is a white bezel and you pay through the nose for it. Owning an Apple device does not give you freedom it makes you a slave to a monopoly. Long live Google and Microsoft. R.I.P Steve Jobs shelf3d.com/VFW1n25WQRU
voice of reason Friday, November 04, 2011
Hilarious. Microsoft Windows on 90% of all PCs, OSX on about 5%, and you think Apple has the monopoly? Do you know what the word means?
And Google has a virtual monopoly on search, especially mobile search. That's called capitalism.
And wtf is this 'freedom' people spout on about? You can run whatever you want on a Mac or Windows. Makes no f***ing difference. Macs are for people who see computers as a tool to achieve something with, Windows PCs are for people who think just getting the computer to work is the achievement.
Steve Jobs Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Im in hell.
Kat Tuesday, October 25, 2011
So wait, you mean to tell me Jobs was human afterall? Wow!
Give me a break, lol
Dave Tuesday, October 25, 2011
"I didn't want to be a father, so I wasn't," Jobs said
Big deal. Women whine like crazy when people try to force them to become mothers. It's only ever males we try to force into becoming parents.
Surely if we had equality in this world then men would have the right to have a financial abortion? Just as logn as men make their intentiosn clear immediately (i.e. during the same tiem frame as a normal abortion) then we should never ever infairly smear them with the sexist label "deadbeat-dad".
A real deadbeat dad is somone who tells his partner he wants to have a child, intentinally helps to conceive one and promises to support his kids but then refuses to do so.
Rick Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Have any of you clowns ever actually used an Apple product? SJ and Apple didn't get a following because there stuff was complicated but because it was designed to be cutting edge and fun to use/hold.
Sounds like a bunch of whiners who are quick to condemn a guy because he was richer then most of us.
Q Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Are you for real? I hope this is a joke, then it's really funny, if it is real, then really really sad...
@dave Wednesday, October 26, 2011
your comments about women forcing men into fatherhood disgusts me. Mistakes happen, and women are the ones that HAVE to keep it together (abortion or not), and many men seem to believe they can just saunter off as they see fit, persumably because they aren't equipped to cope. It's a weak thing to do, and pretty unkind.
deal with the point Friday, October 28, 2011
Well @dave, if a man tells the female upfront that he doesn't want a kid, and she agrees, and thus is on birth control and makes it clear that if it failed she would get an abortion, do you think he should have to pay child support? (note: I have no clue if any of that is relevant to SJ, and I don't care) I am dealing with your illogic.
For the record I am absolutely opposed to abortion. But I find it equally disgusting that the only choice that "pro-choicers" give is to the female. The man is forced to 18 years of forced support for a child he didn't want or agree to. And yes, there are women who do that on purpose. Hello!
And I am female.
Visitor Monday, November 14, 2011
well, women bear babies. get used to it. and as a man, you can never trust a woman in terms of birth control. use a condom. simple as that.
Stupid humans Tuesday, October 25, 2011
I dont know why Jobs would even want to take credit for a device to make people stupid. Granted, i also dont know why the human race would want a machine to be there brain for them. Fuck smart phones. Its obsurd that people would want a device to know everything for them instead of just learning what it is they want to know. Dont get me wrong the iPhone is a great tool to use to learn, but the human race is a lazy one. I hate our race.
Bobby Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Some people deserve cancer.
mass Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Who's the asshole now?
haha Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Agreed... greed is a terrible thing.
Andy Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Fuck Jobs
Visitor Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Pardon me for not drinking the Steve Jobs Koolaid, but what an unkind, arrogant, and mean spirited man to waste so much potential to make a real difference in this world for those who are less fortunate in this world with all of his money and influence.
puking in my mouth Friday, October 28, 2011
@visitor, and you, who obviously care so much about the rest of the world, are doing what? You know how much food you could buy or vaccines or whatever for some child in Africa for that computer you are using and your internet connection and your air conditioned home? That some poor person would see you as filthy rich beyond their imagination? Be a good boy and walk over to your refrigerator and running water and sanitary waste systems, take care of your needs, sit back on fat ass in front of your computer and judge some more. I admit that I have no place to judge others about helping people because I ain't doing much either.
KBH Wednesday, October 26, 2011
I heard Steve Jobs had a swastika tattoo and used to shoot craps with Moammar Gadhafi and the dice were made from the bones of kittens!
Ha, ha! Turns out Jobs is human and does fucked up things just like the rest of us... We'll, except for the saints in this post. It's good to know there's dudes like you out there, takin'er easy for all us sinners.
Hey, maybe someday the zombie corpse of Steve Jobs will rise from the grave and you'll finally have the chance to try him for his crimes against humanity!
Bob Wednesday, October 26, 2011
in the world of doers, they both won.
@Nuliayuk Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Nuliayuk
For the Apple fanboys.
@edudemic Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Edudemic
great read! I'm a Jobs fan but still great.
@NickTig Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Nick R.
Steve Jobs' passing was very tragic, but anyone hero worshiping needs to read this, I was very surprised
WeaselPie Wednesday, October 26, 2011
So the rumours we've all heard about Steve Jobs show that that he wasn't a perfect human being - he isn't the first person to walk away from a child and sadly he won't be the last.
We can all do better but you're just reducing yourselves to his level with all the bile and vitriol being spouted here. Grow up.
I'm so not a religious person but "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
Go worship or denigrate Dennis Ritchie one of the creators of the hugely influential Unix operating system and the equally pioneering C programming language.
Asdfghjkl Wednesday, October 26, 2011
The irony is that most of you are probably writing these reviews on your iPhone or Mac...
dapoiuf Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Parking in handicapped spaces and removing his license plate may seem relatively minor personality quirks. They are not. They reflect Steve Jobs' totally disregard for other humans. He did not understand or care that taking an uneeded handicapped spot meant that someone using a wheelchair had to park farther away and struggle to get out of the car without the extra space that the handicapped spot provides. Or that an elderly person who can't walk more than 20 feet might not be able to park at all because they can't walk that far. For all his professed adherence to Buddhism, he seems to have lost the one great tenet that Buddhism teaches: compassion.
Or to put it another way: he was a douch and an asshole.
@AMaini1 Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Arjun Maini
I guess Steve Jobs isn't such a nice guy; then again, what dude who absolutely crushes it is?
@Ahmed_shehri Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Ahmed Al-shehri
steve jobs is a douche
@meatheadsux Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Meathead
"Bill Gates is unimaginative, which is why he's more comfortable in philanthropy"
Yeah that's it, Steve.
@yawniek Wednesday, October 26, 2011
yawniek
sad guy...
who cares Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Clearly he just didnt give a fuck, and he made enough money for this to be an alright lifestyle choice
Jobs-a joke Wednesday, October 26, 2011
It's sad that people defend someone who was obviously such a complete douchebag and cared about nothing in the world but his net profits.
People idolize someone who made a toy... he didn't "save the world" or "make the world a better place", he fed off of first world stupidity and their needs to be materialistic and he made a LOT of money off us...
The dead beat dad bit is a great kick in the ass showing how big of a low life he really was. I didn't want to be a dad? Well sir, keep it in your pants.
All the money in the world couldn't save him from terrible karma.
mambo Wednesday, October 26, 2011
One of my friends used to work for Apple back during the GS II days. He said he was terrified of Steve. He said that Steve's biggest thrill in life was publicly humiliating people.
@mishiechau Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Michelle Leung
Listening to the biography audiobook on commutes. Anyone finished? My hubby has been appalled by his bad behaviour.
dan Wednesday, October 26, 2011
so you watched 60 minutes and ripped off the interview as your own reading and posted. nice work.
try reading the book
Retribution Thursday, October 27, 2011
And he died relatively young from an aggressive cancer, karma's a bitch
Mr. Pibb Thursday, October 27, 2011
Book should have been called:
How iRaped the World: World Domination!
Zach Thursday, October 27, 2011
Hasn't anyone watched the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" before? None of this is surprising, just not common knowledge maybe.
Both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs has had their shining moments and closet cruelties. Both were amazing businessmen and changed the world in their own ways.
what a prick Thursday, October 27, 2011
That is why steve jobs is a cunt and the deluded prick is now dead from cancer. I hope the cunt suffered as he's aegotisically wanker.
Really?? Thursday, October 27, 2011
To those misanthropes dancing on Steve's grave: what have you accomplished in life that has positively impacted societies around the planet?
Did Steve have personal failings? Obviously. But to claim that his shortcomings in life either outweigh or negate his accomplishments in business is laughable and small-minded.
There's this silly notion in American culture that any wildly successful individual must inherently be a role model. If you're ignorant enough to believe that, then you'll be constantly disappointed. Steve wasn't striving to be a role model. He was striving to be the most effective CEO on the planet, and to build the most valuable company on the planet. By my count he's 2 for 2.
I'm not an apologist for Steve's failings as a person. I'm just not so arrogant to think that I occupy some moral high ground from which I can cast aspersions, unlike most of the other posters on this board.
Visitor Thursday, October 27, 2011
Since when was it okay to post my comment on here because I shared this link via twitter???
haha Friday, October 28, 2011
since when wasn't it?
You do realize twitter isn't private?
-_- Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Clearly, unless you make it private. But that's obviously not the point. The point is that they're publishing tweets without someone's consent or even knowledge. And the unability to remove comments is even more ridiculous.
Visitor Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Even if you do make your twitter private after the fact, the comment is still there... along with the person's full name...
Charles Babbage Friday, October 28, 2011
John McCarthy invented artificial intelligence, time sharing, and LISP, and taught at Dartmouth, MIT, and Stanford for over 40 years. The computer age wouldn't have been the same without him.
Dennis Ritchie co-invented C and Unix and worked at Bell Labs/AT&T/Lucent for over 40 years. Linux and OSX wouldn't exist without him.
Both were true technology geniuses, and both died after Steve Jobs. Yet who gets all the publicity? Steve "I am a Golden God" Jobs.
I can only hope that Jacob Marley's ghost was right:
"It is required of every man, that the spirit
within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and
wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do
so after death."
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
May you be forever tormented, Steve. You earned it.
cipher Friday, October 28, 2011
I was taught not to speak ill of the dead.
Also, I wonder if Steve was alive how many of the scribes would be prepared to say what they wrote to his face...not many I bet.
cipher
Charles Babbage Tuesday, November 01, 2011
@Cipher
What's your point, that people are gutless cowards or idolatrous hero-worshippers?
@BluBluMusica Friday, October 28, 2011
Laureana Varisco B.
I'd like to have my heroes a bit flawed, pls
Billj Saturday, October 29, 2011
Of course, a backwards and idiotic music business would publicize this. They hated Jobs because he WAS and still IS the music business. When they had a chance to own digital music, they argued between labels and gave it away. This from a person who worked for Mo Ostin for 21 years.
Kyle Monday, October 31, 2011
The iPhone sucks. Touch screens suck. Apple sucks. That's what I have to say to those championing Steve's gifts to the world. I'm currently using an iPhone and it's an insult to my intelligence. Steve's accomplishments in business are nothing to be celebrated.
I'm seeing a lot of people defending Steve by saying "So he was just another human being. Surprise." or "What have you done to better humanity?"
Steve Jobs was an asshole. I may not be the nicest guy on the planet but I don't park in handicap spaces and I don't betray friends who have helped me.
You may say bad behavior runs rampant among the rich, but Steve's riches made it all the easier for him to be a nice guy. He didn't have the excuses that the rest of us have.
Before you try to trivialize the significance of Steve's flaws, compare him with Bill Gates. Steve gave about $150 million to charity. Bill gave over $30 BILLION. Clearly it's not just a matter of Steve acting like every other rich guy.
So STFU.
this is pathetic Tuesday, November 01, 2011
I do not understand why people talk shit on people after they die. Nobody talked shit when the man was alive, better wait until after he passes so he can't defend himself. claaaaasssssyyyyyy
Butler Lampson Friday, November 04, 2011
Not true. I talked shit about Steve when he was alive, but the masses were too busy snatching up shiny objects to listen or care. Now that he's dead, people are trying to sum up what his life meant. I'll tell you the answer: Steve Jobs loved one thing in his life, Steve Jobs.
John Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Always the problem with blogs and self proclaimed experts like Paul Resnikoff. They have a megaphone and idiots like us listen and give them validity.
This post is moronic. Steve was a flawed human being but a complete and total modern avatar who changed the way we live. Only a jealous music business blogger who's hanging on to the death of the music business would put the word "asshole" and "steve jobs" in a headline.
rancidpicklefarts Thursday, November 03, 2011
Steve jobs had no agreement with Xerox, He was invited there by a friend of his, a stupid friend that should have known this guy would steal their Ideas. He was an thief, always was. Stole the credit from Woz for creating The Apple. Stole the Credit from Johnathan Ive's Of Apple Development. And stole the Whole Idea of the Mac from Xerox and the Lisa Development Crew. The Only thing I'll give Jobs credit for is for being the luckiest Bastard in knowing how to use intelligent people Like Wozniak as a Springboard to become too most Apple fan boys, a god. You Apple fan boys need to get skooled and stop worshipping assholes like Jobs. Oh and the Ipod was a joke, way better MP3 players when that thing came out. You fan boys again bought anything with I on it, Jobs could have named a turd "ishit" and you dumbasses would have run out and bought it.
Al S. Monday, November 07, 2011
Excellent post. Plain and simple, Steve wasnt a nice guy. No respect for Steve here.
George Wednesday, November 09, 2011
When he died I got two emails, both negative, about Steve Jobs. Not to be mean spirited, but they all made sense to me:
"Steven convinced Scully to come from PEpis with the question "Are you going to be happy selling sugar water to kids all yoiur life?" I argue that Jobds sold the tekky equivalent to kids (of all ages). Has his stuff improved human interaction, real human interaction, as much as it has wasted valuable human lifetime weeks/months/years?"
Second comment was from a cousin in a band before Jobs died (and who is a techy himself for a day job). "FRankly, I don't care for the guy, Steve Jobs had the best DRM in the business to protect music so musicians could get paid. Microsoft wanted to license it, Sony did too in 2004/5 and Steve signed up all the record labels and artists to iTunes with the promise this protection would make for the music. When he saw that the money was coming into apple in floods, because of all the people buying (not Macs) but iPods, etc., his first move into non computer appliances, he calculated which is he getting richer on, iTunes or hardware? Easy answer, so in 2007 he writes a bogus "open letter" to the music industry saying "MP3s are the future!" his future since it doubled the sale of the iPods soon after, cause now 90+ % of music is MP3 pirated in the US on his little gadgets because he threw out a super simple, super transparent music ip protection system in order to sell more hardware and screw the music!
Last bash, but true too:
Steve Jobs was a hard guy, a money guy, and with a good eye for what sells, who was driven to polish other peoples' technology. He started out Apple by cheating his good buddy (the real true genius maybe) partner Wozniak with the first check they ever got from Atari, stole the $5000 coming in. Woz said later "I wish he just could have been honest with me." Wozniak mentions he was asked by biographer Walter Isaacson to talk about steve for the book, but Woz turned down the offer by saying "I didn't want to talk about Steve. I was afraid he would want what I would say." Whew! You are known by those that know you.
It's a tragedy that Steve suffered and died so young but the guy was a piece of work, and the consensus is becoming clear on the guy: troubled and driven and not nice, and with no primary or totally unique additions to the world, but a lot, a super lot of super polished and what will be ultimetely conventional (hey anybody want a SE30?) products he sold to all of us.
Visitor Thursday, November 10, 2011
Sad. All the sycophants who worked for him and worshipped at his self-made altar of "genius" were just enablers for this selfishness.
Andrew Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Steve Jobs (I never knew him up until he died) was not a human and I don't care what he created technologywise and I have never used his technology, and will never use it! I have always been repulsed by technology created by complete assholes. Such beings have no soul! He lived a short life, was a complete asshole, an arrogant, selfish bitch and he died like a stray dog. I hope he went to hell and will stay there forever! I don't need his "technology".
Andrew Wednesday, November 16, 2011
I must add - Steve Jobs (a.k.a. steve jobs) was a typical "American" (USA): arrogant, greedy, self-centered, rude, completely lacked respect and dignity, never kept his promises, had no soul to speak of, he was a robot and his technology won't last long. Rest in hell, steve!
Andrew Wednesday, November 16, 2011
I must add - Steve Jobs (a.k.a. steve jobs) was a typical "American" (USA): arrogant, greedy, self-centered, rude, completely lacked respect and dignity, never kept his promises, had no soul to speak of, he was a robot and his technology won't last long. Rest in hell, steve!
Spyros from Salonica, Greece Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Sounds like the typical Greek company boss to me (more than just one, mind you). You don't get it, do you? It's capitalism. A global effect on people.
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