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#2Still wish he was around. Apple has made some interesting stuff, but I think it would have been so much better with steve at the helm.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a big focus of his was user friendly affordable tech. Not luxury items like apple is now.
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#3He was no saint but it was a more interesting world with him in it.
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#4oh wow oh wow oh wow
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#5Mixed feelings about him honestly. I still can't forget how he betrayed Wozniak.
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#6Still wish he was around. Apple has made some interesting stuff, but I think it would have been so much better with steve at the helm. Correct me if I'm wrong, but a big focus of his was user friendly affordable tech. Not luxury items like apple is now.
I don't recall affordability necessarily being a priority to Jobs.
I'm not going to say Apple is about inexpensive products. The notion of luxury (outside some of their watch products, I guess) is a marketing angle though. They're accessible to enough peoples' budgets such that they dominate many market verticals. They've succeeded in this to such a degree that it's almost black magic to me.
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#7Still wish he was around. Apple has made some interesting stuff, but I think it would have been so much better with steve at the helm. Correct me if I'm wrong, but a big focus of his was user friendly affordable tech. Not luxury items like apple is now.
I don’t think I’d go as far as saying that. Apple has always had a premium price tag even under Jobs control. But I do agree that Cook has doubled down on the premium part of Apples product line (sometimes to the detriment of overall product quality, like those stupid MacBook “Pro”s with only 2x USB3 ports and a keyboard which breaks after 10 minutes).
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#8Mixed feelings about him honestly. I still can't forget how he betrayed Wozniak.
You should get over it
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#9I think Apple would be an even more interesting company if he were still around. Maybe not as big or as profitable, but certainly more interesting.
I wish he hadn't been so strongheaded about herbal remedies and whatnot. He had the more curable kind of cancer, had he taken it seriously earlier. As someone who has lost family to pancreatic cancer, it really upset me to learn that he didn't use his vast resources to do everything he could to live.
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#10Still wish he was around. Apple has made some interesting stuff, but I think it would have been so much better with steve at the helm. Correct me if I'm wrong, but a big focus of his was user friendly affordable tech. Not luxury items like apple is now.
Steve Jobs wanted the computer to disappear, for better and worse. It was that kind of vision that at least made Apple kinda interesting to me, but their recent shift back to just "consumer technology" has really sucked all the air out of the room.
I do wonder, same as you, what things would be like if he was still around. Maybe technology would be friendlier, and have a better place in this world. But at the same time, I remember how the man lived: eating fruit to supposedly stave off his cancer, violently berating his employees to get things finished faster, and even telling his daughter that she smelled like a toilet on his deathbed. Steve Jobs was a man, imperfect yet aligned just so that his manic side was completely hidden from the public (as opposed to, say, Ballmer). In any case, I'm tired of tech CEOs being self-important and elitist. Steve Jobs was the genesis for that, and his inability to admit when he was wrong ultimately lead to his demise.
I'm saying this from a truly impartial, empathetic and caring place: Steve Jobs' behavior should serve as a warning sign for what happens when you let infinite ego expand unchecked.