Sounds like he liked apple, but didn't like the decisions management was making.

I suspect having Steve Jobs as an absolute authority might have eliminated this kind of stuff back when he was around.

I'll bet after SJ there was a lot of infighting, like the apple chaos before he came back after next.

I have trouble believing he was putting up a principled fight over… a journal app.

I didn't mean to imply I supported what he did. I just wonder if having a "clear leader" reduces or eliminates second-guessing.

How did you get “he didn’t like the company” from that story?

People routinely have feelings and opinions way more nuanced than this. And Apple is not a monolith. That’s certainly what happened here, as made apparent by the employee selectively leaking things that he wanted to kill.

It sounds like what he leaked was a wide range of things for all sorts of reasons including his own joy at “Can’t wait for chaos to break out before Apple corporate people even wake up.”