Some questions about Steve Jobs life & personality

[u49aa2]

Thanks consultant for the references, though i don't think i am that obsessed about the guy to buy a book about him ($0.44 ), i was more thinking about a free documentary i can watch in youtube or something similar.

Guys calm down, this thread about steve jobs gadgets, not if he was an as*****hole or not . Though i think it maybe justifiable if this picture was taken peri-operatively (before, during, after the surgery), however if it was before then he is ******with all do respect

 

[jaw04005]

It's pretty funny that the handicap spot thing comes up every few years. Have any of you ever thought it may be an inside joke to Jobs? There's some evidence to suggest it's not a legal handicap spot, and Jobs just had it put there to keep people from parking there.

"One day in October 1983 I got a phone call at my desk at Apple from the Cupertino police department saying something like, "You reported that Mercedes parked in the handicapped space at your lot at Apple. Well, we sent a car out there but we can't really tow it away because the handicapped space is improperly designated."

I had no idea what he was talking about. A few hours later, I found out that Apple's other cofounder, Steve Wozniak, who was a prolific prankster, called up the Cupertino police and reported that a silver Mercedes was illegally parked in a handicapped space and told them the person reporting it was Andy Hertzfeld, giving them my phone number at work. I decided not to inform Apple's facilities department about the improperly marked space, just in case Woz decided to try it again."

Originally posted above, http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?pr...Sort by Date&detail=medium&search=handicapped

 

[InvalidUserID]

I have a handful of friends who work at Apple and have actually met him. A family friend who works in facilities says it isn't unusual to see him and that most employees tend to shy away from encounters with him. Kidding or not, he told me that he used to ask employees what they were doing and if unsatisfied with the answer, would fire them.

I know he doesn't live too far from where I work and I swear I've seen him once or twice on El Camino.

 

[brax.j]

I have a handful of friends who work at Apple and have actually met him. A family friend who works in facilities says it isn't unusual to see him and that most employees tend to shy away from encounters with him. Kidding or not, he told me that he used to ask employees what they were doing and if unsatisfied with the answer, would fire them.

I know he doesn't live too far from where I work and I swear I've seen him once or twice on El Camino.

Ya, when I first got hired at Apple he came into my department to see what we were doing. I was getting the low down on where everything is and the what not he wasn't doing anything for the next little bit so he went with me and the guy giving me the tour for nearly an hour. I was scared because not only is he the CEO everybody was telling me about how he can be "bi-polar" and is known to fire people. He seemed really nice and was cool to be around but the guy that gave me my tour was fired three days later unexpectedly nobody knows what happened.

 

[u49aa2]

Ya, when I first got hired at Apple he came into my department to see what we were doing. I was getting the low down on where everything is and the what not he wasn't doing anything for the next little bit so he went with me and the guy giving me the tour for nearly an hour. I was scared because not only is he the CEO everybody was telling me about how he can be "bi-polar" and is known to fire people. He seemed really nice and was cool to be around but the guy that gave me my tour was fired three days later unexpectedly nobody knows what happened.

Are you serious or being sarcastic?

 

[brax.j]

I am serious we don't know if he got fired or not I added in that detail and everybody I know says he never talked to them out of work so we can't ask.

 

[jaw04005]

Kidding or not, he told me that he used to ask employees what they were doing and if unsatisfied with the answer, would fire them.

In one of the unauthorized biographies, it mentions that some low-level employee got trapped in an elevator with Jobs, and Jobs asked him which product team he worked for. The employee lied and said the QuickTime team, which at the time was working on one of Apple's bigger projects (probably iTunes). Apparently, it was well known that Jobs wasn't a fan of the product team that the employee actually worked for.

 

[u49aa2]

I never knew this side of jobs, certainly he doesn't look like it in front of the media!

 

[entatlrg]

Does anyone know what notebook Steve Job's uses?

this is a great post ...

I also wonder what notebook Steve Jobs uses. Does anyone know?

It would be interesting to know what a Billionaire CEO of a computer company preferences are .... MacBook Pro or Air, screen size 13, 15 or 17"....

I thought I read somewhere he carried a MacBook everywhere, but I can't find where I read that.

I would expect he's using, testing and working from a future model that we haven't seen yet, he'll have the latest and greatest.

I also thought I read here on this forum that he was a huge fan of his macbook Air, but using the search I can't find that thread either...

It's fun to know the tastes of a person who can "buy almost anything" ... he likes his Mercedes and Porsche I've read, I could imagine his home entertainment system, automated futuristic home... he'll have a LOT of toys I'd guess from Rolex to the finest home(s), cars, TV's etc ....

 

[entatlrg]

He did apparently get the green light to build his home and 'move' his old home to a new location.

Still no idea of what computer equipment he uses, it's not like the Dell website where they have a current profile on Michael Dell and what equipment he's currently using.

I bet he's using a the 13" MacBook Pro relaxing at home recovering from his medical condition and keeping his finger on the pulse of his now gigantic 'small business'