I've seen claims by people who knew him that he was narcissistic (which I find easy to believe) but none that he was sociopathic.
I wouldn't label him a by-and-large sociopath, but Steve Jobs certainly exhibited sociopathic behavior. Especially earlier in his career, Jobs was known for his lack of empathy towards his coworkers and being difficult to work with.
Let’s not turn reports of being difficult to work with into armchair diagnoses of serious mental health conditions.
My own experience with Linux is that it breaks from the most mundane of things, such that I wouldn't even dare suggest Linux to the average person because the tech support baggage that will ensue would be far more expensive to me than if they just used Windows.
Have to say that Ubuntu LTS with the Firefox web browser drastically reduced the number of support calls I'd get from my parents, who used Windows 7 before. Of course, as soon as you start messing with packages or doing more advanced things, then more can go wrong. But it's really good for the web.
I have this same experience. I put ubuntu LTS on a family member's computer back in 2011, made sure the browser icons were big and front/center, and the support nags stopped. They said they loved whatever I did. I think there is some security-by-obscurity in there too, where all the insane spam/fraud/virus stuff couldn't even work on ubuntu if she ended up clicking on one. Nowadays I take it with a grain of salt: The support nags might have also stopped because other family got scared I would wipe their computer and put this new thing on there they were scared of having to learn.
Correct, which means that neither are "most common". But the distribution is not even. In my part of the country, you don't see iPhones very often at all. In other parts of the country, you see them everywhere.
I'm sorry, how is "greater than 50%" not the same as "most common?" Either it's two players with 51% and 49%, in which case the 51% is "most common," or it's many players, with 51% and a bunch of other percentages that collectively add up to 49%, in which case the 51% is still the most common, perhaps even more so. I'm not shilling for Apple here, as Android was clearly most common From 2011-2021, and still is world-…
The issue isn't the figure 50, it's the drawing pool.
Thread-initial description was 50% of the market, which is ambiguous. It could refer to either the market in sales, which indicates highest growth, or the market in userbase, which could be the layman's “common”.
I read "Sent from my iPhone" as "I apologize for brevity and typos" and don't get offended.
Well I don't get offended , I just roll my eyes that someone is okay being a walking ad for a company that has plenty of money.
People who are so image conscious that they care about that kind of thing in themselves or others really seem like they have their priorities in the wrong place.
It ends up being a great filter, leaving things around to bother the kinds of people you don’t want to impress.
This reminds me of Steve Jobs' email to himself. In 2010 he wrote: I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds. I do not make any of my own clothing. I speak a language I did not invent or refine. I did not discover the mathematics I use. I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate. I am moved by music I…
The last line "Sent from my iPad" was quite fitting as a device that he conceptualized :-)
Did Jobs conceptualise it or did someone at Apple?