<i>I wasn't lucky enough to ever meet or work with Steve, but one thing I've seen during my time in the tech industry is that there are a lot of people who try to emulate him. Unfortunately it's a lot easier to emulate Steve's weaknesses than his strengths, so the result is that some people are just whiny entitled jerks without much else to offer.</i><p>So true and so pity.
I know that unflattering depictions of Steve Jobs are the big hits these days, but this one seemed more like an attempt to flatter that left me flat. He sounds incredibly annoying to work with and the people working with him have that hands-on-hips "oh, him!" attitude at some massively dickish moves. Blowing off peoples' ideas so glibly and pointing to the door imperiously to indicate they should leave? Threatening to ditch a demo and terrifying your employee? Ordering 300 custom made white italian dress shirts just so he could wear a brand new one each time?<p>I know he accomplished some cool stuff but geez.
> Steve and I both showed up at the show in dark suits and white shirts.<p>I thought Steve always wear his turtleneck. Even going with investment banks. My guess is that those days it was way more formal then what we have now.<p>>He loved hanging out in art museums. My memory could well be off, but I remembered it as 300 new white shirts. He wanted a new one each time he dressed up.<p>So he doesn't do any clothes washing? Would the old one be recycled? Throw away?<p>Fascinating Story, I miss Steve. I miss the old Apple. Where they are relentlessly innovating. It is not that they have stopped now, but it has definitely slowed.<p>And I think with this story, Cake will now get lots of invitation to its site.
This is a great "growth hack" to introduce that service Cake. The story is really good too, but what immediately caught my attention was: "what is this cake thing?". It looks good btw, did anybody else know about it?
Damn this is great.<p>I used to be an Apple-guy, although I've moved away from it recently,<p>I wonder, if Steve was still there, would I have stayed with Apple?