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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?

[–] stickyfingaz_reincarnated 10 years ago

By most accounts, he was a terrible person.

You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore...

[–] yusef-ghanima 10 years ago

lies

[–] yusef-ghanima 10 years ago

this movie is clearly propaganda against him.

[–] mjsfl 10 years ago

A complete piece of garbage like Steve Jobs doesn't need a propaganda movie against him. While I'm sure they won't admit it, I bet a lot of the people he crapped on over the years got a good giggle out of him dying.

At least Xerox doesn't have to worry about him stealing anything else from them.

[–] Strangerhand 10 years ago

Haha I don't know why the story of the Xerox employees on business-retreat in Palo Alto (e.g., the story of the invention of the GUI) was so totally skipped over hehehehe

But I agree with a previous poster about how some of it is more or less wholly true while other parts are fiction. All in all, given the stories I already knew, this film seems true enough, I'm guessing.

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[–] shoelover19 9 years ago

Thomas Edison was an absolute piece of *beep* For the record.

[–] skeetchtvs 9 years ago

Most successful business men are, that's how they get ahead and make money.

[–] Opwiz 9 years ago

That is the story people want to hear. You don't need a vision, or talent or hard work, you just need lack of morals and be willing to cheat. That is a pretty good excuse to why you're not successful - you are just not a cheater like those bastards at the top. I'm telling you it's not true and you are lying to yourself to feel better.

Jobs was millionare by his twenties yet he continued working. He got cancer at 48 and he kept going until the end. He never sold his stock, he was committed 100% to his company and its products and vision. He consistently created products for small markets that not only become big but absolutely enormous world-wide - that has nothing to do with luck and everything to do with having a clear vision for the future, and a willingness to invest in it.

So you need vision and talent - is that reserved for a precious few like Jobs? No. And Jobs knows this. It's why you see him talk very passionately about education and encouraging others to chase their dreams... but you rarely see this side of him reflected in our culture. I'll leave you with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYfNvmF0Bqw

[–] cmcroussore 9 years ago

The person portrayed was not 'awful'.

He was purposeful and driven.

[–] thepacman 9 years ago

This film is actually a good depiction of how Jobs ran Apple. If you read any Steve Jobs biography you will find that Steve was a very passionate but sometimes rude businessman. He was mischievous. A lot of people liked that about him. He got things done :)

[–] clupo154 8 years ago

Oh he was much worse than both this and the Fassbender movie portrayed him as. He was an awful sociopath. Fired people just for fun, abused his employees, betrayed his best friend, Woz, till he just gave up on Apple and the passion he loved, embarrassed interviewees during their job interviews by asking disrespectful questions, stole people's work and took the credit for himself (You know plagarizing), shattered the relationships of anyone he ever befriended and worked with, treated his daughter like trash until he couldn't get away with it anymore, pissed off the Apple board when they were just trying to do their jobs, mocked IBM and was just an all around spoiled, arrogant douchebag.

I don't understand why he's considered such a great man and why he's so worshipped. He's a insensitive prick who ruined a lot of people's lives and treated so many people so terribly. He was an immature little child who had to use profanity and threats to get his way. Some inspiration.