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I found this somewhat uncomfortable to watch. I like Apple products, Steve Jobs is interesting, and I was bummed to hear when he got sick and of course when he
by LVB 15y ago
I found this somewhat uncomfortable to watch. I like Apple products, Steve Jobs is interesting, and I was bummed to hear when he got sick and of course when he died. But I didn't know him, and he definitely didn't know me. I bought products that his company made, and that's it. I like the products a hell of a lot better than, say, than 10 gallons of gas I just bought from Shell, but still the relationship between me and the company CEO was pretty distant.
Back to the video... Many of the Apple people probably didn't know Steve either, but they sure knew more about him and the idea of an Apple family and Steve as the patriarch is pretty clear. I've been in corporate "families" before and there can be real emotion between colleagues with shared passion in a company. I think it's great that they had a celebration like they did, but I felt like I shouldn't be there, even through a web video. I felt somehow like an intruder, spying in on their private event, and that the heartfelt speeches from one Apple employee to the others should have just stayed in their family.
I'm not saying it was necessarily bad to post or was in poor taste. In fact many others may be heartened to watch it. I, to my own surprise, wasn't.
- watmough 15y agoBut that's just the thing. A lot of the stuff that many people have an emotional connection with, those products were driven by Steve, so people feel a connection with Apple and Steve. There's only a couple of inanimate objects I've really ever loved. One was my Peugeot 205Gti, and the other was my first Mac, a Aluminum Powerbook G4 12", though I think my iPhone 4 has a chance of getting on that list.
- jonah 15y agoI too got the feeling that this should have been reserved for the Apple "family".
- davedx 15y agoI agree completely, and I find the way Hacker News has become the 'Cult of Jobs' to be a bit weird really.