The idea that Steve Jobs was laying out some sort of foundational moral ideology of smartphone usage in 2007, rather than trying to sell the iPhone to wary inve

The idea that Steve Jobs was laying out some sort of foundational moral ideology of smartphone usage in 2007, rather than trying to sell the iPhone to wary investors by describing it as an iPod that makes calls, is just ridiculous. I don’t think Jobs in 2007 had a clear idea about how iPhones would be used - and if he did, that idea had changed dramatically by the time of his death. If he were still alive his views on iPhones would be unrecognizable compared to 2007. Likewise I doubt Jobs would have been able (or even willing!) to stop negative trends around the internet and society which in fact predate the iPod (online radicalization, social ostracism, propaganda and misinformation, etc). The logical premise of this article is tenuous at best, and generally preposterous. That said, it is not nearly as preposterous as the moral premise, that we should live our digital lives in a way that (the author asserts) Steve Jobs would approve of. The man is not a saint! He is a dead technologist who was well-known for being a huge jerk to his friends and family, and whose company was only ethical compared to Facebook/MSFT/ etc. I understand Cal has a book to sell, but even by the standards of shameless billionaire-worship this is hard to stomach.