• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    Most tech bros want to be treated like Steve Jobs, who is still seen as “a great and visionary leader” post mortem

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      1 month ago

      Nobody sees themselves as the bad guy. At worst, they see themselves as victims of the system.

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      Then they should be fired, just like Jobs was, build new empires from scratch, like NeXT and Pixar, then return to save their original companies from the brink of collapse, just like Jobs did. They want to be treated like Jobs, that’s how to do it.

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        1 month ago

        And in spite of all that, he was still a shitty person. He also happened to be good at marketing and functional design.

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      The most notable thing Apple did with the iPod was straight lifted from creative. Only people that don’t look very deep see Steve jobs as anything but your garden variety dickhead CEO

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          and he was extremely lucky with the type of pancreatic cancer he had, slow growing treatable although rare, managable. while most pancreatic cancers are already advanced by the time of diagnosis. PNET tumors vs adenocarcinoma(regular kind). also wasted a LIVER TRANSPLANT too.

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      For a legacy, he has a pretty good one. I bet if he lived long enough he’d be seen as a crazy billionaire too. I’m sure he’s been to an island or two.