Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ...
by vsdzvgfWE on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @12:50PM
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Yeah but it's not journalists telling these stories, looking for the right angle. It's independent accounts from people who worked with Steve. And not just the two I mentioned. Read folklore.org or read the walter issacson biography. You get to see the good and bad sides of Steve. And the same patterns emerge.
So no this isn't an artificial narrative. There's probably some truth there.
Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ...
by irl_zebra on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @12:58PM
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This is really unnecessarily dismissive. I'm not a Steve Jobs expert, but have read his biographies (both the sanctioned one and the other one Becoming Steve Jobs), and the comment seemed right in line with what I had read and understood of Jobs.
The interesting take away here at least in my eyes is that incredibly seemingly irrelevant plot points become climaxes. The fact that they invested a bit into the Intel chip for reasons unrelate may have been the fulcrum for the most valuable company in the history of the world.