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whocaresfuckthisshit t1_ixqyiu2 wrote

Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave right now.

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JamesRustleford t1_ixrxuhj wrote

"Who wants a stylus? You have to get them, put them away, and you lose them, yuck. Nobody wants a stylus."

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Tumblrrito t1_ixs01uy wrote

He was right about a stylus being a lousy primary input device, but the success of the Galaxy Note has proven that there is utility in having a stylus for certain things. I’d love one for notes and annotation, as fat-fingering a drawing just doesn’t work well.

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GeneralZaroff1 t1_ixscenk wrote

Yep. So many people completely misunderstood that the stylus at the time he was talking about was before capacitive touchscreens.

Capacitive touchscreens still are still infinitely better than the stylus-based devices like Palm Pilots at the time.

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Quin1617 t1_ixsku1o wrote

Agreed. I loved my Note and used it’s stylus pretty much daily.

Jobs was right about one thing though, I lost it on more than one occasion.

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modulusshift t1_ixsjetw wrote

Also note that he said “nobody wants to watch video on a small iPod screen” at the iPod Photo launch event, only a year before releasing an iPod that could play video as the new selling point. Steve Jobs was a salesman first and foremost, he’d always tell you that anything he doesn’t have couldn’t possibly compare to what he did have, right up until he had the other thing too.

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Captain_Alaska t1_ixt3jzi wrote

>Also note that he said “nobody wants to watch video on a small iPod screen” at the iPod Photo launch event, only a year before releasing an iPod that could play video as the new selling point.

I mean, you're leaving out that they bumped the screen size between the 4th and 5th gen iPods.

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Noah_PpAaRrKkSs t1_ixt8ars wrote

He was a bad guy, who gives a fuck?

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whocaresfuckthisshit t1_ixt8kwg wrote

Maybe but he was a product genius.

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Noah_PpAaRrKkSs t1_ixt9ybk wrote

He was just so abusive that sometimes he got remarkable results.

Genius? Was he good at math or something?

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whocaresfuckthisshit t1_ixta5rn wrote

Steve Jobs had an incredibly high IQ. He created many of apples most legendary products and he perfectly understood what made a good product versus a bad product. He was a severe micromanager and decided the most minute details of products Apple released. He even OKed apples most successful Mac awareness campaign in the mid 2000s.

You can hate all you want but the man is a legend.

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Noah_PpAaRrKkSs t1_ixtblum wrote

Lol, IQ? Why not just say the wrinkles in his skull prove his genius? Stop buying into a billionaire’s self-mythology.

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whocaresfuckthisshit t1_ixtbvpz wrote

I wish we could continue arguing but you genuinely don’t know what you’re talking about and that much is very clear. So go on thinking what you want. Cheers.

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Noah_PpAaRrKkSs t1_ixtc46c wrote

IQ is not and has never been a good measurement of intelligence. So whether or not Steve Jobs had a high IQ is about as relevant as phrenology which is what I was describing with the skull thing. You also didn’t even back up that he did have a high IQ. He was abusive, narcissistic, and willing to take advantage of people. Those were his only skills.

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toonddd t1_ixtvdfu wrote

Dragging successful people you've never met down to feel less disappointed in your mediocre life is also a bit narcissistic mate. Getting a group of grown-ups to do what you want, eg. being a leader, will not work if being abusive is your only quality lol. The world is grey, not b&w.

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