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Was Steve Jobs Really An Awful Person Like Portrayed?

posted 11 years ago by edwardw3
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It seems like for all the amazing things Steve Jobs brought the world through Apple, he could be a terrible human being and appeared to treat everyone around him like dirt. The portrayal was very similar to the Pirates Of Silicon Valley movie from the late 90's and if anything in the Jobs movie they skipped some of the more horrific things he did like pulling the plug on a guys computer who had been coding for 2-3 days straight and losing it all. Kind of makes you wonder if other famous people from history we revere like a Van Gogh or an Edison were also horrible people to deal with?

[–] brodieman1982 11 years ago

Maybe not a truly awful person, but he had his flaws. So does everyone. I'm surprised to see people taken back to find out he could be jerk. You don't do the things he did by being a warm and fuzzy guy. I felt both movies showed good and bad sides to him. I'm not saying those movies were totally accurate. I didn't know the man, but I'm pretty sure he didn't walk on water.

[–] Jim-1439 11 years ago

He was a truly awful person; "everyone" does not have his sort of character flaws.

[–] yusef-ghanima 10 years ago

you're a liar

[–] danieldacey 9 years ago

He was quite correct and you only have to look at Steve Wozniak for the contrast.

[–] appyyh 11 years ago

I am not a fan of Microsoft, but his contemporary and equally successful competitor, Bill Gates, does not treat his friends and employees so callously and mean like Jobs. Just the opposite, Gates built a campus to pamper his employees to encourage productivity, and many high-tech titans like Google, Yahoo and Facebook have followed Gates' fine example.

I am sure near the end of his life, Jobs had learned to be more humane, humble and civilized, and did not carry grudges, malevolence and bitterness to his grave.

Just like 8-track tapes, VCR's and the Walkman before it, it is possible that in 10 years' time, many even more ingenious products will have been produced that will capture the public's adoration in its place, and the younger generation at that time would wonder why the fuss with iPhones and iPads, LOL.

[–] yusef-ghanima 10 years ago

gates kill children in india by vaccination, this movie is pile of garbage in terms of source of information

[–] Strangerhand 10 years ago

gates kill children in india by vaccination

Oh, does he? Did he kill your children?

this movie is pile of garbage in terms of source of information

Huh, do what!? ??? Gates isn't even in this movie! And you're an idiot that doesn't know what he's talking about!

[–] chronomagnus 9 years ago

gates kill children in india by vaccination, this movie is pile of garbage in terms of source of information

Can't tell if serious or not. Vaccinations have probably saved billions of lives

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[–] marktarnovetsky 8 years ago

"Vaccinations have probably saved billions of lives" except, you can't back any of that up with facts.

And what is reported on Gates using vaccinations as eugenics of children in Africa is a reported fact.

now what blowhard?

[–] jaakkoanteroruotsalainen 8 years ago

Are you retarded? Smallpox alone has killed around 300-500 MILLION people. It has no cure. Using vaccinations we have managed to practically eliminate it all together saving hundreds of millions of lives, fact. Where's your "facts" about Gate's eugenics?

Please don't reproduce so your children don't have to suffer because of your idiocy.

[–] marktarnovetsky 8 years ago

another ignorant blockhead who refuses to research anything.

[–] Desertman84 9 years ago

brodieman1982 » Mon Jan 6 2014 12:31:32

Maybe not a truly awful person, but he had his flaws. So does everyone. I'm surprised to see people taken back to find out he could be jerk. You don't do the things he did by being a warm and fuzzy guy. I felt both movies showed good and bad sides to him. I'm not saying those movies were totally accurate. I didn't know the man, but I'm pretty sure he didn't walk on water.

Steve Jobs is truly an awful person. Here is an article to prove it.

16 Examples Of Steve Jobs Being A Huge Jerk

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-jerk-2011-10?op=1

[–] rebroxanna 11 years ago

Yes, he was a terrible person. Worse than the movie portrayed. Mean in every sense of the word. But humanity has benefited from his genius.

[–] mightygeo 10 years ago

Yes where would "humanity" be without the iphone?

[–] Strangerhand 10 years ago

That's not the benefit! The benefit is him being one of the early architects of the Home/Personal Computer Industry! Piss on the *beep*ing iPhone--that's nothing, trendy douchebag fodder it is!

The real significance of what Steve Jobs and several other persons and companies did was to advance computers to an entirely new level never before possible from which those computers, along with the public Internet, have since taken the entire world by storm.

Yes, that's significant! As significant as the invention of the printing-press centuries ago! You'd have to be a really dumb idiot to not recognize just how significant the results of what Jobs and others did in those heady days! In fact it's so insanely significant that Humankind is going to spending a lot of time heretofore just simply trying to discover how *beep*ing significant it all is and can be!

*Beep* iPhones! Jobs helped make computers in a way that had never been done before, see!

[–] Speedwheels1718 11 years ago

Comparing this movie to his biography which I have listened to twice, he is portrayed nicer Ina sense in the movie. In the book, jobs seems to border on bipolar disease. Really really mean, or really nice if he liked you. While he does cry in the movie, the book has him crying and being a lot more emotional throughout his time at apple. I've wondered if I was a genius like Steve how I'd relate to people who were far less gifted intellectually. Definitely a bad flaw to have, but still I wonder. But then I look at people like Einstein who was far more of a genius then Steve and we don't here of him being mean. I imagine its something like having a hs or college education when almost everyone else in the world is in middle school or a freshmen at a high school. I can see how genius' could get so frustrated because others could not see or relate at that high of intelligence/creativity. Steve was a perfectionist,a narcissist and genius which makes for a tough boss. If you kissed his ass and worked your hands to the bone while being very gifted at whatever you did, it seemed like he would praise you (while taking your ideas and making them his own)

[–] lulupalooza 11 years ago

Yes, Jobs was awful. The film actually went kind of easy on him. He's been described as arrogant, narcissistic, and sociopathic...even though he was an "idea man". Woz actually donated 10M of his own money when Jobs screwed over his friends from the garage start-up.

You can read more about the actual film inaccuracies straight from Woz himself:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CarmsPerez/posts/cDK6ZNpZ6YH

[–] Marian20 9 years ago

lulupalooza » Sun Apr 6 2014 10:49:04

Yes, Jobs was awful. The film actually went kind of easy on him. He's been described as arrogant, narcissistic, and sociopathic...even though he was an "idea man". Woz actually donated 10M of his own money when Jobs screwed over his friends from the garage start-up.

You can read more about the actual film inaccuracies straight from Woz himself:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CarmsPerez/posts/cDK6ZNpZ6YH

Steve Jobs is definitely a horrible human being.No question about it.

The movie "Jobs" definitely went easy on him.Director Josh Michael Stern does not want to take any risk in telling his story on the big screen.He obviously played it safe.When Jobs fires people at Apple,the movie just made it clear that he does that if employees do not share his vision.But in reality,he would just fire anybody at will.If one is really curious on how horrible Jobs is,watch the documentary "Steve Jobs:The Man In The Machine" as it gives facts on how awful Jobs is as a person and as the Apple CEO.

With regards to the film's inaccuracies,it was evident that the movie "Jobs" tried to paint Steve as the force behind the Apple products.Steve Wozniak(Apple I and Apple ][ )and the Apple engineers like Jef Ruskin(Macintosh) and Jonathan Ive(iPod) are the REAL FORCE behind Apple products.

In fairness to Steve,he is more of a marketing genius as he was able to convince Americans to buy expensive Apple products with his ability to talk in public and he has the charisma to convince his employees to provide great products by making them feel that they are changing the world with the great products that they come up like the iMac,iPod and iPad despite his horrible character.

[–] Prismark10 10 years ago

Jobs is a guy who ripped off Woz in the early days and is shown in the film. Its generally regarded he was not very nice and now he is dead a lot more stuff will come out in the open.

Its that man again!!

[–] edwardrevans 10 years ago

I have read a book on making the Macintosh computer, and what i saw in this movie didn't surprise me and seem to match sections of this book. Jobs would make changes to products at the last minute, but the trade off was brilliant products.

[–] Pedro_H 10 years ago

Anyone who has done anything or made anything has a hatchet job waiting for them on film. Because film needs conflict to make drama like you need straw to make bricks. Yes some of it is real and some of it is fiction, but the bare facts seem to suggest he wasn't very nice, but does it really matter? I mean I used to work in a bakery and my boss wasn't very nice. Are you bothered? Or would you be bothered as long as the cakes tasted nice?

Apple is a company I hate because it pretends to be anti-establishment and rebellious and it is not anything like that at all. It is just another product company trying to pretend its a religious cult with its own temples. Without IBM and PC Clones computers would be out of reach of everybody but the rich. It wanted computers as a clique and marketed them (by price) at a clique.

If it matter to you I liked the film. It was true enough and interesting enough to hold my attention.

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[–] DataGrab 10 years ago

I don't know about that but you can't be successful without making a few enemies. And if you have enemies that you know off, that changes you as a person.