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I believe the first half of 2012 will go down in the History of blogging as the era where simply mentionning Steve Jobs would be enough for your blog to get att

I believe the first half of 2012 will go down in the History of blogging as the era where simply mentionning Steve Jobs would be enough for your blog to get attention. Remember this shallow article that topped HN by comparing Linus Torvalds to Steve Jobs? Heck, even an old (badly written) blog post of mine, dating from early 2010 and called "Steve Jobs the control freak" is attracting so much traffic now. I'm complaining about this article. It's not interesting. It's not Steve Job's opinion on the Project Glass. It's simply relating an anecdote about Jobs giving a cocky answer to a cocky employee. But it mentions Jobs, it mentions Project Glass and ... BAM! Front page of HN for the day.

drivebyacct2 15y ago
Given the amount that I still hear people gripe back and forth about Google stealing from Apple and vice-versa, I think it's at least mildly interesting to know that Jobs explicitly passed on this idea. I'm not saying it does or doesn't, but if it became big, it would reflect differently on Jobs and his "foresight" knowing that he frowned on it. If it flops, he is "right". Not important and probably tends towards petty fanboy credits, but fun to think about (and there is the thought that Jobs would shoot it down even if he liked it or considered it more later).
- ma2rten 15y ago
  Steve Jobs initially also passed on the idea of the App Store and I think I recall he also ridiculed the idea of making a tablet.
  - s_henry_paulson 15y ago
    He didn't ridicule the idea of making a tablet. The iPad was actually created before the iPhone, but they shelved the tablet temporarily to focus on the phone market first.
  - vetinari 15y ago
    He passed on many ideas, just to come back two weeks later to the same people with just the same idea and pitching it as the greatest thing known to man. Just because he considered it shit once dies not mean that he wouldn't change his opinion later.

drivebyacct2 15y ago

Given the amount that I still hear people gripe back and forth about Google stealing from Apple and vice-versa, I think it's at least mildly interesting to know that Jobs explicitly passed on this idea. I'm not saying it does or doesn't, but if it became big, it would reflect differently on Jobs and his "foresight" knowing that he frowned on it. If it flops, he is "right". Not important and probably tends towards petty fanboy credits, but fun to think about (and there is the thought that Jobs would shoot it down even if he liked it or considered it more later).

ma2rten 15y ago
Steve Jobs initially also passed on the idea of the App Store and I think I recall he also ridiculed the idea of making a tablet.
- s_henry_paulson 15y ago
  He didn't ridicule the idea of making a tablet. The iPad was actually created before the iPhone, but they shelved the tablet temporarily to focus on the phone market first.
- vetinari 15y ago
  He passed on many ideas, just to come back two weeks later to the same people with just the same idea and pitching it as the greatest thing known to man. Just because he considered it shit once dies not mean that he wouldn't change his opinion later.