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The idolization of Steve Jobs has a lot of issues, and this might be a good example of one. We don't know whether Apple succeeded in spite of or because of Stev
by nateberkopec 14y ago
The idolization of Steve Jobs has a lot of issues, and this might be a good example of one. We don't know whether Apple succeeded in spite of or because of Steve's management behaviors.
It's also worth noting that the original Mac (the same time period most of those 'crazy Steve' stories originate from) was a huge commercial 'meh'.
- smacktoward 14y agoNot to mention NeXT, which also had its share of "crazy Steve" management, and which would have been an unmitigated failure if Apple hadn't bought them out. If you're interested in that story, Randall Stross' book Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing (http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Next-Big-Thing/dp/0689121350 http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Next-Big-Thing/dp/068912135...) is a good telling of it. (It was written before Jobs' return to Apple and subsequent huge success, so it's a fascinating artifact of the time before he became Saint Steve.)
- JVIDEL 14y agoWord, when I read that he said to Jon Ive "your ideas are shit" I couldn't believe that guy would keep working for him.
- nateberkopec 14y agoWow, really? Source?
- JVIDEL 14y agoHis bio, check it. Also I didn't know (before that) that he refused to pay his daughter's tuition and some friends of his wife had to do it instead. Awkward at the least...
- Tomis02 14y agoWhy awkward?
- JVIDEL 14y agoGuy is a billionaire and wont pay for his own daughter's college? hello?
- Tomis02 14y agoWhereas most people in this situation would be qualified as assholes (and rightly so), Steve Jobs gets a mild look of disapproval. For me, "awkward" does not begin to convey how screwed up that is. It seems that people have a real hard time accepting that the guy they worship for delivering some of their gadgets was in fact a major douchebag. This tendency to make Jobs into a person he was not it very disturbing. Of course, on HN you risk being banned for saying something bad about His Holiness because some of its highly ranked people are also members of the cult of Apple, but that alone should not be a reason to tip-toe around the obvious.
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- JVIDEL 14y agoYou are barking at the wrong tree dog...