Comments on: Isaacson: What made Steve Steve

By: Dude

Dude — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:38:38 +0000

This book is full of shit- like the claim that OS x is not based on NeXTSTEP. Isaacson did a hatchet job, that lying fucker. From antannagate to android he believes the lies told by others against Steve and often quotes Steve telling the truth and follows it up with the assertion that Steve is lying while providing no evidence.

This is a book for rubes that perpetuates the mythology about Steve they’ve been spreading for over 30 years.

It’s a shame Steve wasted any of his remaining time talking to this liar.

By: Mark Lillywhite

Mark Lillywhite — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:50:19 +0000

@no, I think the quote is taken a little out of context. Neither Jobs nor Isaacson said that Indians don’t use their intellect. Just that they give time to their intuition. I think it’s intended as a compliment.

@Ken great to see you get a shout-out in the book :-)

By: no

no — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:33:08 +0000

“intuition more than their intellect”

So Indians that gave the world Decimal System
didn’t know logic. India also gave Grammar to
the world but I guess its study didn’t really born out
Comparative Language Study or Computer Language
design 2000 year later. India also gave nursery rhymes to the world and much much more but none
of that is taught in West.
Steve couldn’t explain poverty of India
because all he learned from western books was vague notion of spirituality.

This is no better than “Nobel Savage” of Rousseau.
Steve went back to Japan multiple times but never went back to India that should inform his true feelings.

By: Dude

Dude — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:21:23 +0000

Wanted to say, thanks for the warning to stop reading to avoid spoilers. Getting tired of too many headlines spoiling the book, which I haven’t been able to start reading yet because I’m trying to finish a product right now.

By: Andre

Andre — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:34:34 +0000

It sounds like we’re at the same place in the book. One thing that I found a little jarring was how the narrative went from Steve going around trying to figure out how to sell the Apple I, and guiding the Apple II, and basically trying to get his design feet under him, to the modern Steve that we all know about in the Mac section where his sense of aesthetics seems to have been fully formed. There didn’t seem to be much continuity between the Apple II days where he was still a little unsure to the Mac days where he was really sure.

Maybe it just seems that way because there’s a lot more information available on the early Mac days (ie. folklore.org) than the early Apple days.

By: tony

tony — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:33:49 +0000

what surprised me most was who was responsible for pushing steve/apple to make the iPad…