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[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 41 points 17 hours ago

Imagine how insufferable he would be today.

[-] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago

Couldn't be worse than Muskrat.

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I shudder thinking about the bullshit these two would spill being together on Joe Rogan.

[-] easily3667@lemmus.org 1 points 7 hours ago

And then one time I made my workers sit in a room with me when I hadn't showered for 3 months!

That's nothing, one time I forced my employees back to work in the middle of a pandemic and the government of California was so busy covering up it's own crimes and pro-slavery views that they didn't do shit.

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[-] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 128 points 20 hours ago

The behind the bastards episode will teach you a lot about this piece of shit. Wozniak is the genius, this is just another predatory businessman. Good riddance.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 27 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Sure Wozniak invented the Apple I and II. But if he never met Jobs his inventions would have stayed a hobby and Apple would have never existed. Woz also didn’t push for an OS with a GUI (which was revolutionary back then) that was Jobs’ idea. Not to mention that Woz had nothing to do with Apple’s comeback. He has been an honorary employee since Jobs was fired. Woz is a genius but people give him way too much credit just like they do with Jobs.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 6 points 12 hours ago

"Invent" is the wrong term, it's "design".

a new idea is an invention, the implementation is a design.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 9 points 15 hours ago

Jobs had no ideas. GUI, like everything else, was stolen from someone else. Apple and Microsoft both got big by stealing ideas.

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[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 41 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yknow, while I 90% agree with you there seems to be some element between the technical genius (Wozniak) and the idiot businessman that is Tim Apple.

Jobs may have been a piece of shit but there’s something to be said for the uncompromising non-technical focus on UX that allowed Jobs to make the iPhone a success.

[-] Michal@programming.dev 12 points 16 hours ago

Wow, they made 4 episodes about him, each over an hour long.

Haven't listened to Behind The Bastards but will give this one a listen.

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 9 points 16 hours ago

Oh boy, welcome to the Bastards club. Brought to you by Raytheon and Blue Apron.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 14 hours ago

If you like that they're all pretty solid, but I recommend you check out the MKULTRA episodes. I thought I knew about it, I didn't know the half of it. I didn't even know about the one way mirror masturbatorium.

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[-] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Still remeber an interview to Buffet in his time when he used to hang with Bill Gates.

It surprised me he considered Gates a talented investor, like he shouldn't supposed to be. I mean Warren, Bill is an investor as much as you are. Even Buffet was confused from the "tech nerd" aura of Bill.

Same with Jobs, Musk and so on. They're just good investors (and usually despicable persons).

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[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 152 points 21 hours ago

There is a distinct type of person, very good at one thing, that is unable to understand that doesn’t translate to the rest of their life. Easiest to describe them as a high int, low wis character.

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 65 points 20 hours ago

And by good at one thing you mean exploiting people and gaslighting the media.

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 46 points 20 hours ago

Still incredible that people bought into "half the features twice the price" Apple products so hard that it corrupted the entire industry

[-] bisby@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

As I've gotten older, I've come to realize that convenience and simplicity are sometimes a feature. Just Works™ technology has a lot of value (assuming the thing does in fact just work).

I don't have any Apple products, but there are plenty of other categories in my life where I've paid more for a worse product just because I didn't have to think at all about the one I got.

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[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 26 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I will give him credit he turned computers and phones into fashion accessories. He is closer to Coco Chanel than any tech visionary. If you think about it his methods were closer to QAnon or flat earth people. You can sell some people anything if you can convince them they are better than other people if they follow you. I am still salty about him overshadowed Dennis Richie's passing who was a real tech visionary.

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 23 points 17 hours ago

I used to work as a court clerk and judges are like this. You cannot tell them anything because if they get it into their heads that they know better than you then they will completely ignore reality in favor of their own, largely arbitrary, fictional universe.

The best incentive ever not to commit a crime is to find out how utterly dysfunctional the legal system is.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

The Alito brain is the end stage of this mentality.

"'Any' limitation?? Have you considered fish and birds aren't mammals? The principal wouldn't be happy! Checkmate EPA, now you can't enforce water quality standards." -SCOTUS last week.

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 26 points 21 hours ago

Doctors failed to communicate the situation in a way he would grasp that his choices were death or chemo. Maybe a, "that's your choice? OK, before you go, how world you like us to handle your corpse? So you want a full autopsy to confirm the cancer diagnosis, or would you prefer we didn't? Is there a particular burial home you have plans with? "

But in all likelihood there's nothing anyone could have said to him to make him see reason.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 20 hours ago

But in all likelihood there’s nothing anyone could have said to him to make him see reason.

"The CEO after you will mess up the design of apple products"

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[-] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago

At some points, people are adults and allowed to make their own bad decisions

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[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 10 points 14 hours ago

Thought Apples would save him back.

[-] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 50 points 21 hours ago

He believed in apple until his end. Hey-0!

[-] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 21 hours ago

He died as he lived, trying to beat PC with Apple.

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[-] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago
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[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 30 points 21 hours ago

I never like to let people forget the raw fruit diet comes from a cult that believes people from Venus told us that's the key to eternal life

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 17 hours ago

So they went ahead and picked the least habitable planet in our entire solar system to harbor a civilization? They should have said Europa, at least then it would have been moderately believable.

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[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 31 points 21 hours ago

Before he died, he did say it was one of his biggest regrets.

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[-] Float@startrek.website 3 points 13 hours ago

Dying elevates any career. It happens in sports all the time, a dead player is praised above better, still living players from their era. Senna and Prost come to mind

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago

I'd be far more interested in learning more about the other folks on the Macintosh team. They're an amazing group of people who put a lot of care into something they believed in, Steve Jobs notwithstanding. What they did with what they had was amazing, and the fact that they got lost in Jobs' spotlight is tragic.

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[-] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 4 points 14 hours ago

Dude sent his kids to a Waldorf school.

I mean, his kids doesn't actually learn how to write, their ass is covered, but I wonder how many followed the example of this idiot.

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