There will be Steve Jobs and Apple cultists who refuse to believe that Jobs was not an outstanding human being in every regard. There are people who feel the same about John Lennon. Both produced brilliant things - but both were awful arseholes according to most.
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The people that understand and love Apple the most knew that. I worked at Apple for 5 years and what Steve cultivated for his employees was incredible. He may be rude, too harsh, etc. But at his core he did care
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Good to know. People are generally complex, not all good or bad. You can be a genius businessman and a godawful father at the same time, though I bet he was thinking about his children as he lay dying.
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At the end of it all, everyone will carry regrets - but the worst regret must be failure as a father or parent. Doesn't matter what you build.
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Agreed. If I screw up being a mother I’ve screwed up life. I know it’s harsh, but that’s my opinion as a mother to two beautiful young women, and three dogs, whose natural mothers left me to love and take care.
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Do ***WE** internet strangers nosing into his personal life FORGIVE HIM***?!? For his PERSONAL LIFE CHOICES?! DO WE FORGIVE HIM?! What the fuck is this article. If you think you have the right or ability to FORGIVE someone of their personal life choices, you need to grow up.
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Bruh this was my FIRST thought smfh.
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If you’re tweeting about how you don’t “forgive” Steve Jobs (like he did anything to you?) while you’re on your iPhone/iPad/iWhatever, you’d better check yourself.
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Hey may have created it. It's not like he is a God that is exempt from all personal judgment. However. I could careless about his personal life. He ain't my daddy. If he was then sure I'll lux around thinking of what it's like to have so much money and him being a super geek.
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I’m not saying he was perfect, but the general public (I.e - you and me) have nothing to complain about. We only benefitted from Steve Jobs. His family, in the other hand, is a different story. But if you own anything Apple, your life is made better because of him.
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I don't think benefit is even appropriate either. He doesn't hold a monopoly over the smartphone industry. If he did then I would only benefit from him. But right now I'm holding a phone crafted by someone else (WHO SHOULD'VE INCLUDED A BUILT IN HEADPHONE JACK
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So Steve Jobs punished his daughter, Lisa, for existing and needing anything from him, by confusingly and in turns giving and withdrawing love and support. She reads like an abuse survivor, although it’s clear that she doesn’t wish to be seen this way.
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His behavior was 100% abuse. It was really disturbing to read
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I mean, maybe she does really get that her dad was abusive and further expounds on that in her book. It came off here, though, as making excuses for his abominable behavior; the ‘he was kind to me sometimes, so it can’t be abuse’ sort of faulty thinking.
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I totally agree. Sadly a LOT of abuse survivors think this way for various reasons. I think the biggest one is a deep human need to feel our parents love us. Unfortunately, admitting someone was abusive makes it clear they really didn't
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Exactly. It’s not uncommon for victims of abuse to go chasing after a parent for decades seeking love and acceptance, and trying to read the tea leaves in every little thing. Oftentimes abusers are sociopaths-at best narcissistic, and incapable of giving what’s normal and right.
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SO true
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his daughter should be ashamed writing this kind of shit it's NO ONES business how the man was in his personal life & angers me that she was too cowardly to write it when the man was alive but waits until after his death. Profiting from it by writing this. Go to a shrink!
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