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This is something that I too keep on thinking about every time another incident happens. The best I have come up with is that SJ is not in control of this. It
by arfrank 17y ago
This is something that I too keep on thinking about every time another incident happens. The best I have come up with is that SJ is not in control of this. It may have become bigger than he could totally control while he was away from the company. Who is to say he is not fuming each time one of these stories comes around and that they are working on a change(Apple has screwed up on the iPhone before and took their time fixing that).
Also I also think he nailed it with the last line in the story-telling sense.
"Apple requires you to be 17 years or older to purchase a censored dictionary that omits half the words Steve Jobs uses every day."
- po 17y agoI can't picture Steve fuming about it. I can see him kicking doors in and fixing it. But he's (aparently) not. That's the thing: either Steve lost control of his baby or he lost his sense of morals. Both are disturbing to me.
- pra 17y agoSteve is deaaaaaaaaad.
- durin42 17y agoI'm not so sure - I think having 3rd party apps at all is a concession from Jobs. ISTR (but don't have any references, so this could be an urban legend) that his original vision for the Mac included buying all software from Apple, and making the entire widget from the hardware on up. The iPhone pre-SDk was that kind of vision realized.