this is ridiculous. not allowing porn into app store = jobs abhors pornography...the man who did multiple interviews for playboy. Someone who admired Ayn Rand, because Woz said (a few decades later, mind you) "Atlas Shrugged might’ve been one of [the books that inspired him]". Claiming he did "nothing whatsoever in common with the Left’s political agenda", despite giving to Obama and Gore. Saying he created /anything/ at Pixar is absolutely wrong. He bankrolled john lasadder, plain and simple. Jobs was a acid-dropping, weed smoking barefoot hippie for a long damn time, and would probably call this guy a slime bucket if he could read it.
Author makes a potentially interesting point (Jobs was perhaps not 100% the post-60s hippie some people make him out to be) but buries it under a ton of ad hominem attacks on capital-L Liberals (yawn).
Funny to see every special interest group under the sun claim Steve Jobs as one of their own, hoping a bit of the magic rubs off on them now he's not around to denounce them.
Particularly hearty lols for "Steve Jobs the capital-C Conservative", along with "Steve Jobs the environmentalist", "Steve Jobs the philanthropist", etc.
Jobs' politics are a bit of a conundrum, which I believe is how many politically minded people appreciated him.
Academia - conservative in that he didn't see enough value in his education to have his parent expend their savings. Perhaps conservative economic sense. Liberal in that his company's products were found throughout the academic world.
Environment/Human Rights - Apple caved into demands put on them by Greenpeace, and use minimal packaging in their products. They also depend on a very anti-green, anti-human-rights country to manufacture their products.
Corporate culture - Very laxed dress, Al Gore on his board, but ruthless pursuit of perfection and profit.
I don't know how one can come to any conclusion other than that Jobs' was apolitical. All he cared about publicly was delivering the best products to market. That's neither a conservative ideal nor a liberal one. It's the admirable and moral one.
I think at the end of the day, what Jobs clearly did not care for was dogma. And in politics - be it left or right-wing - there remain plenty of dogmas, sacred cows and entrenched positions which he did not care for.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 23.5 ms ] threadFunny to see every special interest group under the sun claim Steve Jobs as one of their own, hoping a bit of the magic rubs off on them now he's not around to denounce them.
Particularly hearty lols for "Steve Jobs the capital-C Conservative", along with "Steve Jobs the environmentalist", "Steve Jobs the philanthropist", etc.
Academia - conservative in that he didn't see enough value in his education to have his parent expend their savings. Perhaps conservative economic sense. Liberal in that his company's products were found throughout the academic world.
Environment/Human Rights - Apple caved into demands put on them by Greenpeace, and use minimal packaging in their products. They also depend on a very anti-green, anti-human-rights country to manufacture their products.
Corporate culture - Very laxed dress, Al Gore on his board, but ruthless pursuit of perfection and profit.
I don't know how one can come to any conclusion other than that Jobs' was apolitical. All he cared about publicly was delivering the best products to market. That's neither a conservative ideal nor a liberal one. It's the admirable and moral one.
Fuck politics. Be great! Humanity depends on it.