(10-25-2011, 03:54 PM)Oceania Wrote: i think Jobs did more good than harm, Unity. someone was gonna do it anyway. when the technology is out there it's up for grabs.
it wasnt 'out there' for 'grabs'.
the technology was there, openly and widely available. if someone else had popularized the technology, s/he/they could have done it without setting a trend for selling overpriced items out of shiney factor to people and then milking them like cash cows in walled gardens. and presenting this as something good or revolutionary, while satisfying their investors to an extreme extent.
Quote:he was controlling and angry but he was spiritual and passionate. his intentions were good. but he was human. often when a person is intense, and passionate, they are of course controlling and have anger problems. because they care more than others. that's what drives them.
you are labeling someone who had walled-in people into a garden in order to make exorbitant profit over them at the cost of their freedom, 'spiritual and passionate' ?
its self serving as it can be. whether done consciously, or done unconsciously as a result of control freakdom or fixated opinions.
Quote:especially toward internet. would we have internet if he hadn't developed personal computers like he did? it was his passion that made it happen.
internet ? you are crediting development of internet, to steve jobs ?
are you kidding me ?
'if he hadnt developed personal computers like he did' ? are you aware that internet and personal computers were here long before his ascent into power second time ?
AND, actually steve wozniak was the person behind apple's initial computers which set the trend you are talking about 'like the way he did' ?
steve jobs has nothing to do with development of internet. even of today, leave aside past, apple computers constitute a little minority of devices that make up the internet, both server and consumer wise. it was even more so back in the 90s period that internet had come into being and spread around into what we know today.
'ibm personal computer compatibles' is the wordage you looking for. thats what had made i.t. revolution mainstream.
Quote:and now we have revolutions taking place, politicians being exposed. all because of internet. all because of computers. a lot cuz of Steve.
excuse me, but apart from your uninformed misconception, there is no relevance in between success of internet, and steve jobs.