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Oracle is what it is, but your initial assertion is a matter of taste.
Take it easy, but you can't negate the impact that Apple had in our field.
What the Steve Jobs movie got right, and wrong
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Sure about that? His family clearly loved him and miss him, and so do a lot of the colleagues that spent the most time with him, like Tim Cook and Jony Ive.
Have you read his biography by Walter Isaacson? I think there is no doubt in the tech community whatsoever that he was an ass with people, he cheated his own company people, and also his friend Mr. Wozniak. Also, Jony Ive 'considered him' as a friend, but quoting him : "He [Jobs] will go through a process of looking at my ideas and say, 'That's no good. That's not very good. I like that one,'" Ive told Isaacson. "And…
(the followup review deals with user responses to the prior one - that one's here: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/43 )
Re: What the Steve Jobs movie got right, and wrong
#53Are we going to have a movie about Norman Borlaug, Dennis Richie or Douglas Engelbart as well? What made the movie industry pick Jobs as the topic? I honestly don't understand it.
A movie about Douglas Engelbart has my vote.
Some of what was shown in The Mother of All Demos had been done elsewhere better - his group suffered from Not Invented Here Syndrome. He was enamored with the idea of one big software program that did everything (badly) rather than a lot of component parts that do specific things well - sort of the polar opposite of Dennis Ritchie's approach to problem solving. So his team had a program that did email and text editing and videoconferencing and drawing but didn't do any of those things as well as a system that focused specifically on any one of those things.
On the plus side, he had lots of severe personal setbacks (including at one point his house burning down) that could be played up for melodrama. And the end was poignant. And he did patent the mouse. And some of his most oddball ideas seem even more prophetic today (life-blogging) while others are weird enough to be entertaining on their own (chorded one-hand keyboards).
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Take it easy, but you can't negate the impact that Apple had in our field.
Yes, it also had a big impact (of course, negative) on the culture of 'healthy competition' that once used to be the case in the pre-Apple era. Steve Jobs ensured that someone, somewhere is always in a 'face-palm' position reading/hearing about patents on "pinch to zoom", "slide to unlock", rounded corners, icons in a grid, wedge shape, and many more, while they went on to steal more.
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I think you misunderstand what I am saying. I don't care about JObs smoking weed or being on LSD, I care more about the total absence of criticism for his vision of Computing.
Let's just say: as long as he was alive, Apple wasn't in the Prism program. I don't know of many people in this business with such a clear vision.
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You don't understand it? You can't fathom why Steve Jobs gets a movie and those guys that you need a CS degree to recognize don't? Keep thinking.
Borlaug has nothing to do with CS.