Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Something from Forbes magazine to remember every time Apple updates the Iphone

Apple, a company I dipise, but whose product the Iphone I'm compelled by fate to use, recently updated the Iphone.

Of course they did. The (expletive delted here) at Apple who work in the phone department are constantly updating it when it doesn't need to be. So it has a new camera? Big freakin' deal.  It's a phone, not a Hazleblad.

Steve Jobs Was A Jerk, You Shouldn't Be





Steve Jobs was a major, world-class jerk. A friend who knows about these things -- but not Steve -- wonders if he wasn't at least a borderline sociopath.
If you define that as someone who does evil things and doesn't feel remorse, the picture of a smirking Steve Jobs does begin to emerge.
Jobs was busy changing the world and minor annoyances like people's feelings didn't fit into his plan. If you had something he wanted, Steve could be charming. But Steve did things his way, almost for himself, building the things he wanted and if we loved them, that was good too. If not, it took a long time for Steve to accept that customers were right and he was wrong.
Sociopath or mere megalomaniac, Steve Jobs was a one-off, a hugely successful genius who changed the world to be how he thought it should be. That is something only Steve could get away with and we are better off for it.
People rallied around his genius and accepted his demands and abuse because Jobs really was smarter than everyone else in the room and 99.98 percent of the planet. Steve delivered on his vision and if basking in his reflected glow required joining a company with a bizarre culture that reflected Steve's personality, people still flocked to him.
Apple's reputation as a "mean"  and obsessively secretive company is a reflection of Jobs, not the people who work there. Lots of nice people work at Apple, but that doesn't mean they could persuade Steve to bring back the corporate philanthropy program that he killed

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