You mean a kid who scrounges some lemons for free, then opens a lemon stand and sells ten glasses of lemon juice for 10 cents each, is technically doing better than both Apple and Microsoft?
Lemon Juice Stand?
You mean a kid who scrounges some lemons for free, then opens a lemon stand and sells ten glasses of lemon juice for 10 cents each, is technically doing better than both Apple and Microsoft?
And with that kids, not a singlewas given that day.
Yes ladies and gentlemen. The CEO of the worlds most valuable tech company was too busy to attend board meetings about theme parks and childrens movies. I think he deserves a pass; just this once.
Surprised he used that many words.
When you're THAT good, you get to say things like that.
It's earned. Not everyone gets the privilege.
If it was anyone else, you'd pop them in the mouth. But with someone like him, you just walk back to your desk with your world shaken.
Maybe Steve Jobs has aspergers.
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They say you shoul never meet your heroes. I can safely say that I will definitely be taking that advice when it comes to Steve Jobs.
Oh my...
So, he's like... a God to you?
Your suggesting that successful people got the right to give ****** to other people (even if their also successful)?
What a wonderful world you're living in...
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They say you shoul never meet your heroes. I can safely say that I will definitely be taking that advice when it comes to Steve Jobs.
I put no words in your mouth, but merely quoted your own. My comment was a response to your statement that there was "no excuse" for rudeness, when in fact, in some cases, there is. I stated that IF you truly believed that there was no excuse for rudeness, then you had a poor understanding of autism. I can't comment on whether Jobs is truly autistic, not being privy to his medical files (and if I was, I would be even less able to comment on them), but he certainly fits the profile. I can tell you that many people on the autism spectrum have little or no awareness that they are on it, and even now, decades after Jobs attended grade school, there remains little or no treatment for autism. And as a father of an autistic child, I am aware of numerous occasions when my child has been very apologetic (even to the point of being moved to tears) for making social errors, but that unfortunately does not prevent him from making similar mistakes if the circumstances are slightly different. Children with autism tend to learn social norms by explicit practice and experience (so-called "social stories"), so they know that if "x" happens, they should do "y". Unfortunately, if "z" also happens at the same time, they are frequently unable to generalize their knowledge to account for the variation in circumstances, and may revert to whatever response first comes to them. As I stated earlier, they generally have limited ability to be duplicitous, and this lack of skill at being two-faced causes them to be socially rejected as rude (of course, this is an egregious over-generalization, but a more detailed discussion would be beyond the scope of this board).I never said he didn't know he was being a jerk. If you noticed, I was even giving him an excuse for popping out with what he said in this case.
I do think that I wasn't clear in what I wrote. My intention was to mean that there's no excuse to be a jerk just because you're the boss.
Please don't put your words in others' mouths to try to promote an unproven scenario. Also do not make any assumptions about my own experience with kids with such problems. Thanks.
Some people here are making the assumption that Jobs has a medical excuse for acting the way he has for decades... and has remained undiagnosed and/or untreated, and moreover, unaware all that time.
Obviously my comment applies only if making the opposite assumption.
There are plenty of stories from early Apple employees that Jobs would make thoughtless comments, and when called on them, he became meek and apologetic. So at least back then, he was aware that he was being a jerk and would apologize. He seems to have lost the apology part as he got more powerful.
So Jobs was right, and he was just being honest.a phone on which ESPN and Disney wound up losing $135 million.
I don't think whatever was said warranted a short rude comment. Doesn't matter who you are.
Imagine someone like Richard Branson meeting Steve Jobs and bluntly saying "Look at you and look at your health. Retire and live off the fruits of your labour already while you ******* can. You ain't going to live forever there bud" and then walks away. Rude? can't be if it's true right........
Steve Jobs, not giving a flying fk to social norms.
And we love him for it!
ha ha ha I wish I could have been a fly on the wall, When he said that.. There is no one like Steve Jobs, he's the main reason for Apple's success, when he returned Apple was 90 days from bankruptcy, look at it now its surpassed Microsoft in May 2010 in terms of revenue
its a great time for Apple.
I know some people think its harsh, but no one gets anywhere being too soft on people or things let slip over time.
Forever
It's just blunt rudeness.
It served its purpose. It got mind share on the concept of Apple and Phone, and, made the somewhat crippled iPhone 1 look GREAT (insanely) by comparison.The Motorola phone with iTunes was the stupidest ********** phone. I love Steve and Apple, but in the grand scheme of stupid phone related ideas, this phone tops the bill!! How much did Motorola and Apple lose on this piece of crap??
http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/rokr/
So, Microsoft invested in Apple 150M USD. Now this 150M became 4 billions 615 millions.
The Motorola phone with iTunes was the stupidest ********** phone. I love Steve and Apple, but in the grand scheme of stupid phone related ideas, this phone tops the bill!! How much did Motorola and Apple lose on this piece of crap??
http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/rokr/
MOT learned their lesson, which is "deal with Steve Jobs at your own risk". They got burn by Jobs several times before, and this was pretty much the last time they allowed Jobs to do it.