You can try this post on reddit: Jony Ive on What He Misses Most About Steve JobsFor me too.
Can someone be an absolute angel and please copy-paste the article's text here?
You can try this post on reddit: Jony Ive on What He Misses Most About Steve JobsFor me too.
Can someone be an absolute angel and please copy-paste the article's text here?
I found this blog post from a former Apple employee really very interesting and much more articulated that a distasteful short easy rant:It reads something like it was put together by the Apple PR agency. Steve Jobs was an ******* who screamed and belittled employees. The flowering and tributes are quaint for a decade since his death but let's not rewrite history.
Thats because its true and obvious.Ive believes that Jobs was not distracted by money or power and was instead driven to make something useful for humanity. It sounds as if he is hinting someone in charge that ONLY cares about money.
Steve Jobs passed away 10 years ago tomorrow, and in commemoration, Apple's former design chief Jony Ive has penned a remembrance of his friend and colleague for WSJ. Magazine. In his first public comments about Jobs since delivering his eulogy in 2011, Ive reflected on his memories of Jobs across nearly 15 years of working together.
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"We had lunch together most days and spent our afternoons in the sanctuary of the design studio," wrote Ive. "Those were some of the happiest, most creative and joyful times of my life. I loved how he saw the world. The way he thought was profoundly beautiful."
Ive said that he and Jobs had a shared curiosity that formed the basis of a joyful collaboration. "He was without doubt the most inquisitive human I have ever met," wrote Ive.
"Steve was preoccupied with the nature and quality of his own thinking," said Ive. "He expected so much of himself and worked hard to think with a rare vitality, elegance and discipline. His rigor and tenacity set a dizzyingly high bar. When he could not think satisfactorily he would complain in the same way I would complain about my knees."
Ive believes that Jobs was not distracted by money or power and was instead driven to make something useful for humanity.
Ive left Apple in 2019 to create his own independent design firm LoveFrom with fellow designer and longtime friend Marc Newson, and he said that he still collaborates with Apple, without sharing any specific details. Ive also continues to work with Laurene Powell Jobs, who is focused on philanthropic work through her company Emerson Collective.
"When her brilliant and inquisitive children ask me about their dad I just cannot help myself," wrote Ive, about Powell Jobs' children. "I can talk happily for hours describing the remarkable man I loved so deeply."
Ive ended off with some very touching words:The full remembrance can be read at WSJ. Magazine.
Article Link: Jony Ive Writes Touching Letter About Steve Jobs a Decade After His Passin
You can try this post on reddit: Jony Ive on What He Misses Most About Steve Jobs
It’s unfortunate that you mistake cynicism for insight. Jobs was a complicated person who was a lot of things, like most people. Viewing everything as binary is a serious handicap.
And his dead corpse misses your moneyI miss your genius, Steve.
Wait a second. I thought he was a great man that walked on water.It is also unfortunate that the flaws of a man who, in the memoirs of his daughter, repeatedly emotionally traumatized her is given the "complicated" pass. Heck he repeatedly subjected his daughter to sexually uncomfortable situations as she recounts, nothing "complicated" here. He's a tech genius but a horrible person just like many other CEO's. Let's not confuse the merits of Apple and his work there with his merits as a person. I own a mac, iphone and might be considering an apple watch. They're good products but I don't let this blur my hold on reality and assessment of the man.
Ha ha what?Jony has never smiled like that since Steve passed away 😕
He lost his great friend and collaborator. Jony never seemed truly excited for anything after Steve passed away.Ha ha what?
What a sad soul.It reads something like it was put together by the Apple PR agency. Steve Jobs was an ******* who screamed and belittled employees. The flowering and tributes are quaint for a decade since his death but let's not rewrite history.
I would not call people desperately sticking to their actual job if you can list Apple in your resume while looking for another job.Or they had a mortgage to pay and a family to feed...
Who is saying the victims are the problem? I never said that. Is that what you’re saying? The problem is that you are being reductive and using labels. Jobs did many things in his life. Including sometimes yelling at employees and sometimes being an amazing friend and sometimes changing life on earth.I know what the definition of a bully is. The victims are not the problem.
It is also unfortunate that the flaws of a man who, in the memoirs of his daughter, repeatedly emotionally traumatized her is given the "complicated" pass. Heck he repeatedly subjected his daughter to sexually uncomfortable situations as she recounts, nothing "complicated" here. He's a tech genius but a horrible person just like l many other CEO's. Let's not confuse the merits of Apple and his work there with his merits as a person. I own a mac, iphone and might be considering an apple watch. They're good products but I don't let this blur my hold on reality and assessment of the man.
Who gave him a “pass” for being “complicated”? Not me. I’m just describing, accurately and objectively, a man with very strong, often wildly polar, behaviors. Being complicated isn’t a free pass, it’s just… true. And if you read what I was replying to, it was the silly notion that because he was sometimes tyrannical at work, that he could not also, sometimes, be an amazing friend and mentor.It is also unfortunate that the flaws of a man who, in the memoirs of his daughter, repeatedly emotionally traumatized her is given the "complicated" pass. Heck he repeatedly subjected his daughter to sexually uncomfortable situations as she recounts, nothing "complicated" here. He's a tech genius but a horrible person just like many other CEO's. Let's not confuse the merits of Apple and his work there with his merits as a person. I own a mac, iphone and might be considering an apple watch. They're good products but I don't let this blur my hold on reality and assessment of the man.
Thank you for pointing us in the direction of the full text. It was very heartfelt.You can try this post on reddit: Jony Ive on What He Misses Most About Steve Jobs
Who gave him a “pass” for being “complicated”? Not me. I’m just describing, accurately and objectively, a man with very strong, often wildly polar, behaviors. Being complicated isn’t a free pass, it’s just… true. And if you read what I was replying to, it was the silly notion that because he was sometimes tyrannical at work, that he could not also, sometimes, be an amazing friend and mentor.
“A concerned Chrisann writes that he was: "ridiculing her with sexual innuendos,” and “joking about bedroom antics between Lisa and this or that guy.”
“Chrisann says that she was scared for her daughter, but adds: "I will be clear, Steve was not a sexual predator of children.”
I can’t help but think that the only reason you’re euphemistically calling him “complicated “ rather than an outright creep is only because of his tech genius. Morally, he is a terrible creep that needed to be chaperoned around his 9 YEAR OLD daughter
we all doEating lunches together. How beautiful! Jon’s best friend. We all miss you, Steve.
... Steve had said live each day like it was your last. I'm sure this is why it was so critical, for us all.Being able to say goodbye is a chance that only a few have, I’m glad Steve was one of them.
Yikes, no kidding. Hard not to tear up reading that. I felt I could hear the sound of the latch
They share the same spark in their eyes. That is what made them great together. A nice complement to each other. With one gone, it was only time the other parted ways.
Is it just me, or does anyone else read the name of Jony's firm as LovePorn when they first see it?
I am not rich, and I do not worry about money to pay bills or to keep a positive balance in a bank account so the bank can get rich or grow the economy, only time I worry about money is if I do not have any to go out and have fun with. Having money and paying bills is not a concern nor is it success, its the amount of fun you have in life and the amount of people you have fun with.For sure, it seems to me that not having to worry about money has to be one of the best parts about being rich (I’m not speaking from experience). It’s not a character fault, but rather a benefit of being rich that not every rich person realizes. It sounds like Jobs spent a lot of time thinking, which is a very admirable thing to do with the time that money had given him. Imagine what else he might have been able to do if he had only thought more about his own health before it was too late.
It seems an incredibly awkward name to pronounce.Is it just me, or does anyone else read the name of Jony's firm as LovePorn when they first see it?
“Terrible creep” seems myopic and incomplete to the point of being inaccurate. Life is complicated, isn’t it? Massive amounts of greater good versus anecdotal incidents of individual pain? His failings as a father were terribly hurtful for his child. It sucks. I know I wouldn’t hire a young Steve Jobs to babysit my kids. But that’s not really how he served the planet, was it?
If you were God and had to make a binary choice: Steve Jobs exists, and the world has PC’s, and user interfaces that aren’t for lab technicians, and laser printers, and Pixar movies, and the music industry doesn’t implode under Napster, and average humans have computing power greater than the Apollo rocket in their pocket, and human communication is transformed and empowered in ways previously unimaginable, and “design language” has become a revolution that has changed product design for nearly every industry on the planet, but there are a handful of people who have to experience pain and difficulty in his wake, or Steve Jobs doesn’t exist, none of that stuff happens, the world is drastically different, and a few dozen people never have to deal with his negative side. Which is the better world?
Based on what I’ve read from people who knew him, and some who hated him, my guess is that the majority of them would say that despite their difficulties with him, they’d rather have a world with him than not.
You’re free to focus on the smallest, worst parts of the man. Judge him by his imperfections, not his contributions to the lives of the people around him and the change he made on a planetary level. Men should be great fathers. Bosses should all be great managers. And visionary geniuses shouldn’t have to ruffle feathers to disrupt the status quo. People should be nice! Maybe you can make some hay with that worldview. I choose to focus on the best that real, imperfect people in the actual world are able to do, despite their own foibles & demons, and how we can cultivate more of that.