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Today Would Have Been Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs' 65th Birthday
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We get it. You don’t like him.
Last I checked, the penalty for “mental abuse” is not the death penalty.
That’s the real tragedy, in that he was so fortunate to be diagnosed with a rare and curable version of that particular cancer, and he went with natural healing “methods” because he “wasn’t ready to be opened up” (per his autobiography).
Had he got the surgery at the time, it’s very likely he’d still be here today.
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I can just tell you’re one of those people who thinks the Fassbender movie is 100% accurate. You’re contributing nothing to the discussion, peddling hate when there’s no real need, and for that I’m reporting this post.
He had his flaws; we all do. We’re human.
Double post.
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Answer me this then. Are you someone who has been abused as a child, or just another of those modern day keyboard warriors who has an opinion on every topic from afar?
My father was abusive, both physically and mentally, to me when I was a child. He starved me to the extent I needed to be medically rehydrated in hospital at age 10 for several days. That’s on top of the beatings for the most simple things when his fiend of a temper snapped.
This man still walks this earth to the best of my knowledge, I haven’t seen him in 29 years, so please don’t sit there on your moral high horse and pass judgment on a dead man from behind a keyboard, stating that it’s good he no longer walks this planet. Yes, Jobs had his flaws, but he was never (to our knowledge) sick in the head to the extent he would lash out and strike or starve his children.
Jobs would eventually admit his flaws and errors and try to amend his relationship with his children. He wasn’t perfect, but he’s a damn sight better than what I grew up with; a coward whose only life lesson was what not to be as a man and a parent.
Mods can feel free to edit and or remove this post, but you sound like the kind of person who needs some real world experiences shown to them, rather than regurgitating scenarios from a factually inaccurate biopic to take slants a dead man you don’t like.
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Answer me this then. Are you someone who has been abused as a child, or just another of those modern day keyboard warriors who has an opinion on every topic from afar?
My father was abusive, both physically and mentally, to me when I was a child. He starved me to the extent I needed to be medically rehydrated in hospital at age 10 for several days. That’s on top of the beatings for the most simple things when his fiend of a temper snapped.
This man still walks this earth to the best of my knowledge, I haven’t seen him in 29 years, so please don’t sit there on your moral high horse and pass judgment on a dead man from behind a keyboard, stating that it’s good he no longer walks this planet. Yes, Jobs had his flaws, but he was never (to our knowledge) sick in the head to the extent he would lash out and strike or starve his children.
Jobs would eventually admit his flaws and errors and try to amend his relationship with his children. He wasn’t perfect, but he’s a damn sight better than what I grew up with; a coward whose only life lesson was what not to be as a man and a parent.
Mods can feel free to edit and or remove this post, but you sound like the kind of person who needs some real world experiences shown to them, rather than regurgitating scenarios from a factually inaccurate biopic to take slants a dead man you don’t like.
Everyone has flaws if you dig enough to find them (heck even Mother Theresa, look it up). Apple haters just like to find as much as they can to try and discredit Apple but in the long run, they fail because Apple products are so insanely great!
You veered the topic from Jobs: founder of Apple to Jobs: child abuser.
Your insistence on ensuring Jobs is portrayed as some kind of horror, is borderline unhealthy.
You use these forums, so I assume you have Apple products and enjoy them. You have Jobs to thank for that, irrespective of his failures as a father.
Steve Jobs was a flawed human. He denied his daughter was his child up until shortly before his death. He had a somewhat rare form of pancreatic cancer that actually has a decent chance of surgery working, but instead he went holistic on a fruit juice and vitamin treatment until it was too late.
As a businessman he was a giant. As a technology innovator he was the greatest of his time. He surrounded himself with innovators and unified their visions into his concepts.
But he wasn’t anywhere near perfect. I think giving him credit while recognizing his flaws is a more honest approach for remembering him.
As a businessman he was a giant. As a technology innovator he was the greatest of his time. He surrounded himself with innovators and unified their visions into his concepts.
But he wasn’t anywhere near perfect. I think giving him credit while recognizing his flaws is a more honest approach for remembering him.
Tim was Steve’s choice to succeed him. Just last week Warren Buffet, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway that is one of the most successful investment firms in existence called Apple “Probably the best business I know in the world” just a day or so ago. It’s listed as having a value around 1.3 trillion dollars.
I’d like to be the complete failure CEO that Tim Cook has been.
And no, I don’t worship either Tim or Apple. There are a lot of things that I disagree with Apple. But he’s obviously doing a lot of things right even if they aren’t decisions that I agree with.
And these days, macs are restricted to ”what people usually do”, like ”most people do not upgrade their computers”. The crazy ones do upgrade, but not with Apple.
Was it Job’s idea to solder both ram and storage to motherboard, to make macs the complete gem of throwawayism?
Well - Was it Jobs who championed simple, elegant machines which sacrificed user upgradability and expansion for ease of use?
Yes. Look at the original Macintosh compared to say, the Woz' Apple II. Jobs' vision for the future was selling computers as appliances to the tech-illiterate, where Woz understood that the hobbyist market was already interested in buying computers. Jobs' ultimate vision was seen through devices like the iPhone and iPad - computer *adjacent* devices... "all" the utility, without the "computer".
I'm with you, I like the ability to upgrade my machine post-facto as well. But don't misattribute repairability and serviceability as Jobsian traits. That was all Woz (and then later on, the business guys who told Steve that the market wouldn't buy unupgradable systems which proved true in 2002 with the powermac G4 cube but then false just a few years later in 2010 with the MacBook Air - the market had shifted so Apple did too)
Looking to future, the saddest thing is the belief that the biggest computer company in the world can't offer both: ease of use & upgradeability.
With today's shipment rates Apple would have no problem to release two models in each category: the thinnest / smallest one AND a bit bigger with upgradeability.
And let the user decide which to prefer.
Naturally, if you want to offer the thinnest laptop, there's need to solder ram & storage to motherboard.
But just adding $100 bucks to price and few millimeters to thickness, Apple could easily offer full upgradeability to laptops easily. With desktops, the situation is just so obviously just greed and cashing out, that's funny to even debate.
The belief that "hardly no-one is upgrading" even if it's possible, is a bit strange. It has to be about something about that the question is only made for the first user of the new computer. And that those who buy a new computer, don't think about what's going to happen to device 5 years in the future. Simply throwawayism. Macs used to have the longest lifespans of all computers. Advertising about being green is now just about recycling the materials, when using the same device longer would be always more green.
Apple of course have monopoly to soldered ram & storage for macs, so they make huge profits out of this. Farsighted mac buyer these days buye more of those than needed. For just in case.
I bought a mini with a small internal storage and learned that newest os versions can't fully function if home dirs are in different storage than system. Of course new devices can't run older os...
Just sad.
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