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And with that kids, not a single ;) was 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.

Haha. I love how you just casually toss away Disney as "theme parks" and "Childrens Movies" lol

People think Apple are the only company in the world sometimes.
 
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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.


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...
 
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........
 
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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.

Great advice!

I've met and had lunch and dinner, on separate occasions, with John Lasseter and Phil Schiller, both regarding charity events with a group of people. John was wonderful and super nice, Phil was a jerk to me, but extremely nice to my girlfriend. I guess it was my fault for letting him know I was a big Mac fan where my girlfriend had no idea who he was. As soon as I told him I was a fan, he became a jerk. :rolleyes:
 
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...

With the exception of family, no one really gives a **** about each other anyway, they just pretend to.

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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 actually know someone who has met Steve and he told me he wasn't as nice as he looks on stage, so TBH I am never shocked when I see articles like this and I will certainly take that advice.
 
That quote made me laugh. Steve calls a spade a spade. Seems like the ESPN CEO came off as arrogant-- "I am George Bodenheimer. I run ESPN." Steve was probably like... I know who the f--- you are, and BTW, you're phone is a piece of crap.

PS- Anyone remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KscYtJH988E
 
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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.
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).
 
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Nothing is eternal in this life...

Even if I love Apple products, I'll never treat Steve Jobs like a GOD.

I don't think he spends his whole day sitting on a throne just thinking about the next BIG thing from Apple.

We forgot that the real "Genius" are the people on each department at Apple that makes things come to life.

Apple could be at the Top today, but we don't know the future, we can expect good things from it.

After all, we are all humans and All humans make mistakes...
 
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........

1. I think Steve Jobs could take it and would think of it as excellent advice.

2. I think Steve Jobs does exactly what he likes doing best.

And since there has been a lot of talk about autism, Asperger's syndrome etc.: What the hell are you talking about? What Steve Jobs does as a profession is talking to people, listening to what they say, and influencing what they are doing. You can write computer software and not be able to talk to people (although it will hold you back), you can design things and not be able to talk to people (although it will hold you back), but you can't do Steve Jobs' job without being able to talk to people.
 
ha ha ha I wish I could have been a fly on the wall, When he said that. :D. 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 :D 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.

:apple: Forever

This is totally ********. Apple bought NEXT, how the company that was 90 days away from bankruptcy was able to pay to Jobs 429M USD cash and 1.5 billions in Apple stocks? After return to Apple, Jobs concluded deal with the devil. He called to Bill Gates and prayed to help Apple because he is rich now because of the old days that he tricked Jobs around. So, Microsoft invested in Apple 150M USD. Now this 150M became 4 billions 615 millions.
 
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Stupid Phones?? How About This One: MotorROKR (With iTunes)

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/
 
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/
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.

Think loss leader.

Besides Apple "phone" results, as experienced, "matters".

Rocketman
 
So, Microsoft invested in Apple 150M USD. Now this 150M became 4 billions 615 millions.

Except Microsoft sold off that $150M worth of Apple stock long before Apple stock took off. The general feeling on why MSFT bought AAPL stock back in 1996 was that Microsoft felt they needed to prop up an alternative OS since they were in the middle of being hit with anti-trust lawsuits. Having Apple around would allow them to argue that they did not have a monopoly since MacOS was an alternative. They could then argue that they were still actively developing Office software for the Mac and that the Mac was a viable platform.

At some point, Microsoft no longer needed Apple to remain viable and sold off the stock.
 
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/

I'm guessing the Moto ROKR sold 10x of what the ESPN phone sold. Even then, it doesn't mean the ROKR wasn't a turd, because it was.

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.
 
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.

I would've said it the other way around. Steve Jobs learned that MOT couldn't be trusted to deliver a phone that wasn't complete arse, iPod software added or no. That was in 2005, and it planted the seeds for the iPhone, which MOT only wishes they had developed.
 
Jobs

Steve may not be the nicest guy ever, sure, but if he was as nice as people want him to be, Apple may not have gotten anywhere. And sure, not every first edition Apple product may be the cream of the crop, but Steve's desire to "get it right the first time" by pushing his employees to their max is necessary. He's the modern-day Howard Hughes. We all have to remember it's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. And Steve's always had a lot of fight in him. He's one of those few people that have that much fire inside to become the best at what they do. The fact that he's so blunt is just his way of showing you how he feels. Especially that ESPN big-wig. Steve was prophesying bigger things to come. Steve brought good touch-screen devices to the masses. He did it by pushing his team, and when you can afford to hire some of the best people in the world to take your dream and make it a reality, more power to you. I really hope his health improves and he comes back stronger than ever.
 
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