Re:The History of the iPhone on its 10th Anniversary [audio]
by throwanem on Monday January 09, 2017 @12:57PM
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> I would've thought that Jobs was a crazy asshole
When the device on which he's bet the company is still misbehaving an hour before the critical keynote demo, it's not too terribly hard to understand how someone would use this kind of language, harsh though it be. Jobs was Jobs, of course, and whatever else could be said of him, I have never gotten the impression that he had a lot of patience for people or prototypes which he did not regard as being up to snuff. But this is a context in which perhaps it's harder to blame him than in a lot of others.
When the device on which he's bet the company is still misbehaving an hour before the critical keynote demo, it's not too terribly hard to understand how someone would use this kind of language, harsh though it be. Jobs was Jobs, of course, and whatever else could be said of him, I have never gotten the impression that he had a lot of patience for people or prototypes which he did not regard as being up to snuff. But this is a context in which perhaps it's harder to blame him than in a lot of others.