Steve Jobs - iChanged the world
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I enjoyed it it 
Have you seen pirates from silicone valley?
Have you seen pirates from silicone valley?
Watched this last night, everyone seemed to suggest he was a bit of a *******
Yea I think ruthless business man through and through! Didn't know about the close relationship with bill gates! And how much gates had invested at one point!
I quiet liked that! After watching I do now understand the history of apple and the people he ****** off along the way but the rewards that came from it!
Fair play to the hong kong student who designed that logo I figured that was something apple did!
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Watched this last night, everyone seemed to suggest he was a bit of a *******
Everyone says this about Jobs, but really he's just the same as ruthless as many other CEO's I feel. Just more noticeable because he's much more public than a lot of others. I reckon that'll be a rough feel I'll get from reading the Biography. He was a bit of a ***** but he changed the world...
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fair play I say!
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A British designer called Chris Thornley(his is on the right) thought of it first ...
As for the programme I thought it pretty much skimmed over some events e.g. Xerox PARC barely got mentioned(get yourself a copy of Dealers of Lightning if you want to see how Xerox practically invented modern computing). Concerning Jobs ... I think it's widely known what an unpleasant arse he could be. I don't think he was the "genius" some people claim but he was still a huge success at Apple - as a human being perhaps not so much.
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This ^^^
Early on though? I thought ****ing off people at his end was just as bad, not wanting an oxygen mask because it didnt suit him and wanting to see options or sending food back multiple times saying it was ****.
I was left with the impression he was a dictator with a futurist vision, he did help create some amazing things but also went radio rental when other companies did what he did.
Android STEALING from him and the iPhone when he stole everything from Xerox in the beginnings and even saying great artists steal...
I can understand it when he was ill though but not the rest of the time.
As you say he was a dictator and i also feel he was very selfish and also a hypocrite. Then again as much as many many people disliked him he got things done and undoubtedly changed the way we do things with MP3 players, tablets and smartphones.
As you say he was a dictator and i also feel he was very selfish and also a hypocrite. Then again as much as many many people disliked him he got things done and undoubtedly changed the way we do things with MP3 players, tablets and smartphones.
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Reading the biography at the moment and it's a good story about the start of modern personal computers. Steve looked at touchscreens way back around the Apple II! (then shouted at the engineers presenting to get out)
A very clever ******* who managed to change the world of technology as we know it.
Still find the hole "get sacked by steve if you cant answer his random apple related question if you're in a lift with him" thing utterly hideous but hey ho... that era is probably over!
Still find the hole "get sacked by steve if you cant answer his random apple related question if you're in a lift with him" thing utterly hideous but hey ho... that era is probably over!