I’m with you, Steve Jobs was such a legendary douchebag* it pains me to correct anyone.
I think the Tripwire co-founder is referring to when Steve Jobs was fired by Apple’s board of directors in 1985.
Jobs went on to co-create NeXT and Pixar, and Apple absolutely tanked. John Gibson has not been wowing anyone, and few have cared about Tripwire.
When Steve Jobs came back to Apple in the 90s, it was literally Apple’s next big wave and they became a powerhouse.
It’s actually kind of nice that everyone has forgotten this part of Jobs’ narrative, and it’s comical that the founder that left a shitty little game studio in 2021 is comparing himself to Steve Jobs. Uhh… sure, in some ways.
* If I remember correctly… Steve Jobs literally stank because he didn’t think he needed to wash. He never had license plates on his car, because apparently at the time you could drive a new car without plates so he just bought a new car when the time expired. He ignored his first child for most of his life. He thought he could out-vegetable cancer and then tried to jump the organ donor line because he was rich?
You forgot he stole actual inventors ideas. He didn’t do shit, he just had the money to fund it and the charisma to make other people listen to what introverts couldn’t articulate.
I had a work project to collect all his “patents” when he died. They were mostly .ttf typefaces and co-signed design patents with actual inventors. Design patents are just appearance of a product. Which typically meant he gave feedback but didn’t do the heavy lifting.
He was not the genius people paint him as. He was a good marketer. The sad part is people don’t recognize the actual geniuses behind the curtains.
This is a problem I personally hate. Same reason Musk gets all this credit for being the man behind this or that technology. Motherfucker just throws money and his name at things. He’s a modern Steve Jobs in that sense.
This is what confuses actual talent with “I have the money to fund things”.
Even during the zenith of the Apple hype, back in the iPhone days, the joke in Android circles was that Apple would just take whatever Samsung was doing, rebrand it with Apple terms, and launch a media blitz about the new feature they “created”. And frustratingly it worked every time.
They weren’t first with capacitive touch screens, touch to move/zoom (there were demonstrations of this from the 80’s!), swipe to unlock, or pretty much anything they sued Samsung over. The whole lawsuit was a sham, because even the parts Samsung did copy wasn’t Apple’s to begin with
I’m with you, Steve Jobs was such a legendary douchebag* it pains me to correct anyone.
I think the Tripwire co-founder is referring to when Steve Jobs was fired by Apple’s board of directors in 1985.
Jobs went on to co-create NeXT and Pixar, and Apple absolutely tanked. John Gibson has not been wowing anyone, and few have cared about Tripwire.
When Steve Jobs came back to Apple in the 90s, it was literally Apple’s next big wave and they became a powerhouse.
It’s actually kind of nice that everyone has forgotten this part of Jobs’ narrative, and it’s comical that the founder that left a shitty little game studio in 2021 is comparing himself to Steve Jobs. Uhh… sure, in some ways.
* If I remember correctly… Steve Jobs literally stank because he didn’t think he needed to wash. He never had license plates on his car, because apparently at the time you could drive a new car without plates so he just bought a new car when the time expired. He ignored his first child for most of his life. He thought he could out-vegetable cancer and then tried to jump the organ donor line because he was rich?
Fruit. He was a fruitarian. Ashton Kutcher tried to go method and adopt a fruit-only diet when playing Jobs in a biopic and ended up in the hospital.
But yeah, NeXT was kinda revolutionary and introduced features which became common in home computing. The world wide web was kinda invented on one.
You forgot he stole actual inventors ideas. He didn’t do shit, he just had the money to fund it and the charisma to make other people listen to what introverts couldn’t articulate.
I had a work project to collect all his “patents” when he died. They were mostly .ttf typefaces and co-signed design patents with actual inventors. Design patents are just appearance of a product. Which typically meant he gave feedback but didn’t do the heavy lifting.
He was not the genius people paint him as. He was a good marketer. The sad part is people don’t recognize the actual geniuses behind the curtains.
This is a problem I personally hate. Same reason Musk gets all this credit for being the man behind this or that technology. Motherfucker just throws money and his name at things. He’s a modern Steve Jobs in that sense.
This is what confuses actual talent with “I have the money to fund things”.
Even during the zenith of the Apple hype, back in the iPhone days, the joke in Android circles was that Apple would just take whatever Samsung was doing, rebrand it with Apple terms, and launch a media blitz about the new feature they “created”. And frustratingly it worked every time.
iPhones didn’t even have copy-paste or screenshot capabilities early on
They weren’t first with capacitive touch screens, touch to move/zoom (there were demonstrations of this from the 80’s!), swipe to unlock, or pretty much anything they sued Samsung over. The whole lawsuit was a sham, because even the parts Samsung did copy wasn’t Apple’s to begin with
He thought he could out fruit pancreatic cancer, actually.