Of course we know little about Cook, other than his carefully prepared statements and controlled interviews, so that's a caution as far as drawing conclusions about his personal life, even as Jobs significant interpersonal pathologies are well known. As far as "genius," he's clearly a bright guy, and very capable, but nothing to indicate he's a "genius" in any category.
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You're wrong that he supported her "through her life."' He denied paternity and left her and her mother without financial support during crucial years of her life. There is much to admire about his life, but also some very dark and disturbing aspects:
"Lisa was born in May 1978. Jobs, who had launched Apple and was already wealthy, would give his daughter’s name to one of Apple’s first personal computers. Yet he went to great lengths to deny paternity for more than two years, while Brennan cleaned houses, waited tables, and went on welfare. At one point, Jobs even swore in a signed court document that he couldn’t be Lisa’s father because he was “sterile and infertile,” and lacked “the physical capacity to procreate a child.” (He had three more children after marrying Powell in 1991.)
After a lawsuit forced Jobs to take a paternity test, leading to a court order to provide child support and reimburse the state for its welfare costs, Jobs began paying $500 a month. Apple went public a month later, giving Jobs a personal net worth of more than $225 million. While Jobs rarely visited his daughter for years, bought a mansion, and drove a Mercedes, Brennan struggled to make ends meet."
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