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tl;dr: "And that's a damn good thing."
by calinet6 14y ago
tl;dr: "And that's a damn good thing."
- arbuge 14y agoA bit extreme. No doubt he had many warts, but few would disagree that his net contribution to society was enormously positive.
- andrewljohnson 14y agoA great many people seem to think we'd have been better off without Steve actually. They will tell you Steve/Apple set back the free software movement, and brought dictatorship to the world of software, when the web used to rule with anarchic democracy. They would tell you he sells closed devices that neuter people's creativity, and that the devices are hard to hack or dispose of. I think he was a brilliant artist who made technology less imposing.
- vor_ 14y agoI think a great many other people--mainstream customers who don't read websites like Hacker News--would argue that they don't care about the free software movement or hacking devices. They think people using the term "dictatorship" in reference to computer software are extremists. They just want Shit That Works.
- pekk 14y agoHe made money by selling things. Good for him, but that doesn't make him a Saint.
- olegbl 14y agoI guess I'm one of the few. While he headed a company that spearheaded internal innovation, it also stifled external innovation. He was also a jerk, as well documented.
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- calinet6 14y agoHow much of it was Steve Jobs, and how much of it was Apple's company. Surely he had a huge influence on the company, but there were a lot of people who did.
- obviouslygreen 14y agoI definitely don't agree with this. Jobs' contribution to a whole lot of wallets, most of them already fat, was extremely positive. His role in many contributions to the advancement of technology was also significant. "Society" is something he did not contribute much at all to. Workers' rights, work environments, corporate culture, none of these things benefited from Jobs at all; his contributions to them were largely negative.
- jonursenbach 14y agoCan we stop with the tl;dr's?
- calinet6 14y agoHeaven forbid we explain things succinctly. Might as well just not put titles on things either, amiright?