Thoughts on Steve Jobs
Oct. 6th, 2011 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tajaselPeople I know have today been coming out with sentiments like "fuck Steve Jobs in the ass" and "he was monster who preferred fashion before function", and it's pissing me off.
All this bitterness is awful. Yes: he may have used the Foxconn factory despite what he'd learnt about it (along with Dell, Sony and HP, I might add).
He may have quite rudely snubbed his fans to their face.
You may not like the design of his products, the cliché of a Starbucks filled with MacBooks. You may simply think that Macs are sub-par and overpriced.
No matter what you think of the man and his company, allow those who want to to mourn his death.
Yes, he could be an ass. Maybe he doesn't deserve the title of "St Steve of the Ooh Shiny" which so many people seem to want to give him.
But he was a great innovator and salesman, he proved that there is such a thing as "the right kind of mad" in technology, he revolutionised the way we use mobile phones.
More importantly, he was a friend, a co-worker, a husband and a father. A human.
My dad left this world when he was 56, the same age as Steve Jobs. It's too early for anyone to die, whoever they are, whatever they've done, or not done. In the words of so many before me, if you have nothing nice to say...
(By the way, in case you missed it amongst all the sadness about Jobs: the world lost a second wonderful person yesterday - Fred Shuttlesworth, one of the last big US civil rights activists.)
All this bitterness is awful. Yes: he may have used the Foxconn factory despite what he'd learnt about it (along with Dell, Sony and HP, I might add).
He may have quite rudely snubbed his fans to their face.
You may not like the design of his products, the cliché of a Starbucks filled with MacBooks. You may simply think that Macs are sub-par and overpriced.
No matter what you think of the man and his company, allow those who want to to mourn his death.
Yes, he could be an ass. Maybe he doesn't deserve the title of "St Steve of the Ooh Shiny" which so many people seem to want to give him.
But he was a great innovator and salesman, he proved that there is such a thing as "the right kind of mad" in technology, he revolutionised the way we use mobile phones.
More importantly, he was a friend, a co-worker, a husband and a father. A human.
My dad left this world when he was 56, the same age as Steve Jobs. It's too early for anyone to die, whoever they are, whatever they've done, or not done. In the words of so many before me, if you have nothing nice to say...
(By the way, in case you missed it amongst all the sadness about Jobs: the world lost a second wonderful person yesterday - Fred Shuttlesworth, one of the last big US civil rights activists.)
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Date: 2011-10-06 05:38 pm (UTC)And, yeah, I'm a little bit aggravated that the news about Shuttlesworth is getting buried in the noise. He had a profound effect on the world we live in and frankly I have more invested in the work he did than I do in the work Jobs did.
This is why I've buggered off Twitter, though, and I'm probably going to need to stay off Tumblr as well. I haven't anything much good to say to the people mourning Jobs' so extravagantly, and since I've actually nothing against the man himself and there's very little good to be accomplished in saying anything not good, I'm just removing myself from the forums that are frustrating me so much.
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Date: 2011-10-06 05:46 pm (UTC)