get over steve jobs - he's death, get over it! You never knew him! He may have contributed to making some products you use, but he ran a company that did some disgusting things!
The Infrequent Rant: Steve Jobs: A top bloke after death
Sorry all you invidious dipshits...
Its funny how all the folks who bemoan the "disgusting" things Apple or Jobs did, are all the same folks too banal, contrary, or plain clueless to so much as comprehend what he did and why it worked.
He was uncompromising in seeking excellence, both from himself and from his staff, and they call it arrogance...
But success is the difference between arrogance and competence.
His infamous insistence on Apple's control of their products, their systems, and their customer experience is seen as a problem by those who can not make revolutionary products... an utter failure on the part of the less capable to recognize this as the precise REASON that people's experience of Apple products is that they simply work, that they are effortless to own and satisfying in every way.
I remember arguing with Apple Haters over their whining that the iPod and iPhone had no battery compartment... as if paying for and charging and lugging around extra batteries all day, in addition to the extra bulk on the device of battery compartments were some kind of "benefit"... How clueless can someone get?
All the complaints I hear against Apple and Jobs are the complaints of the unaccomplished, or those whose own ideas for 'seizing the market' never pan out because they simply don't understand how human INTERACTION with technology is the only thing that matters.
Here it is in a nutshell, for those too young, or too ignorant to get.
This machine you are using to post on this "internet" you rely on?
It looks the way it does, and operates the way it does BECAUSE of Steve Jobs and his insight into how people process information, and the aesthetic that involves.
ALL computers today, owe their interface to the innovations of Apple.
Windows and its descendants are all rip offs of Apple... and their insufficiencies beside Apple's OS are directly attributable to the fact that no one in the PC world controls the quality of anything.
The competition for the lowest price is a race between mediocrities.
The World Wide Web was developed on NeXT computers.
Sorry, you pathetic dweebs who begrudge brilliance its due...
But the very fact that you can interact with technology the way you do you owe to this one guy... even if you are too stingy, or too stupid, to admit it.
It is worth our time, culturally, to honor and laud revolutionary achievement. Worth our time to retroactively acknowledge that, as it happened, we may not have fully grasped how it would enrich our lives, nor what we mistook for arrogance was, in fact, simply singular vision that only succeeded because it was not compromised.
In honoring Steve Jobs, we encourage the next radical and perhaps difficult to get along with visionary to step up, and withstand the criticism of the majority who think too small and fear they have too much to lose.
Hindsight is 20-20.... and looking back... Jobs
wasn't arrogant,
wasn't difficult, mercurial, nor autocratic.
He was, simply,
right.
