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People view Steve through rose colored glasses and then become indignant whenever those glasses get knocked off. It's selection bias, pure and simple. Steve was
by marknutter 14y ago
People view Steve through rose colored glasses and then become indignant whenever those glasses get knocked off. It's selection bias, pure and simple. Steve was wrong about as many things as he was right. The magic of Steve Jobs was in taking something complicated, utilitarian, ugly, and confusing to the average person and making it accessible, beautiful, and enjoyable to use. You apply that formula successfully enough times, across a wide enough range of ideas, you are going to hit some home runs.
- indiecore 14y ago>The magic of Steve Jobs was in taking something complicated, utilitarian, ugly, and confusing to the average person and making it accessible, beautiful, and enjoyable to use. That and a fucking massive reality distortion field that is STILL around.
- seiji 14y agoIt's not distortion if it becomes reality.
- marknutter 14y agoI don't think you understand what was meant by Jobs' "reality distortion field".
- mcormier 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
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