How Steve Jobs' Legacy Has Changed

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 5, 2012 @12:45AM from the still-grabbing-headlines-a-year-later dept.

On the anniversary of Steve Jobs' death, reader SternisheFan sends in a story from CNN about how the Apple co-founder's legacy has changed since then. "... in the 12 months since, as high-profile books have probed Jobs' life and career, that reputation has evolved somewhat. Nobody has questioned Jobs' seismic impact on computing and our communication culture. But as writers have documented Jobs' often callous, controlling personality, a fuller portrait of the mercurial Apple CEO has emerged. 'Everyone knows that Steve had his "rough" side. That's partially because he really did have a rough side and partially because the rough Steve was a better news story than the human Steve,' said Ken Segall, author of Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success.' ... In Steve Jobs, Isaacson crafted a compelling narrative of how Jobs' co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak, got pushed out of the struggling company a decade later and then returned in the late 1990s to begin one of the most triumphant second acts in the annals of American business. But he also spent many pages chronicling the arrogant, cruel behavior of a complicated figure who could inspire people one minute and demean them the next. According to the book, Jobs would often berate employees whose work he didn't like. He was notoriously difficult to please and viewed people and products in black and white terms. They were either brilliant or 'sh-t.' 'Among Apple employees, I'd say his reputation hasn't changed one bit. If anything, it's probably grown because they've realized how central his contributions were,' Lashinsky said. 'History tends to forgive people's foibles and recognize their accomplishments. When Jobs died, he was compared to Edison and Henry Ford and to Disney. I don't know what his place will be in history 30, 40, 50 years from now. And one year is certainly not enough time (to judge).'" Apple has posted a tribute video on their homepage today.

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well sometimes customers are dumb by slashmydots · 2012-10-05 01:04 · Score: 1, Flamebait

I can't believe how misled Apple customers and fanboys are. They just see the device and get obsessed with that "I'm better than all my friends" marketing campaign that Apple pushed for years. Apple propped up their egos and now Steve Jobs in a god apparently.
Back in reality, he was a rude, overcontrolling guy and that showed in his products. They control EVERYTHING like tech nazis and abuse a pretend monopoly whether it exists or not for every product they make. They treat everyone from their customers to their app writers like crap, block out anyone making competing products, control pricing of their products with nonstop threats to vendors, etc. They're a terrible company and Steve Jobs is responsible for them operating that way. Apple fans need to wake up to reality and see that and STOP BUYING APPLE PRODUCTS!