• angelsomething
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    475 months ago

    Steve Jobs didn’t design anything as far as I know. He did, however, lead the design direction but would hardly qualify him as a designer.

    • Jo Miran
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      I worked on a project for him. He was just an awful human being, but he was crazy detailed oriented… and the devil is in the details. IMHO, his greatest strength was that he knew how to sniff out and monetize others’ brilliant work. Work that would otherwise go unnoticed. Some people call that parasitic, but I disagree. There are many brilliant projects that go unfunded because the people with the purse lack vision and imagination.

      EDIT: Typo and grammar fixes after I found my galsses.

      • @whoreticulture
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        So he stole brilliant ideas from companies that didn’t have as much money? And you see that as a good thing?

        • Jo Miran
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          I hear ya, and I seriously disliked that motherfucker, but I am trying to give him props where due because neither Woz nor Jony Ive’s genius would have seen the light of day without that insufferable ego maniac. Seriously, he’s the only person I know that literally died of hubris.

          • @[email protected]
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            The most credit I’ll give him is on understanding design, at least for the idea of making things look nice for marketing purposes. I hear what you’re saying though.

            I do think Woz, who is just impressive, would have done well regardless. But I agree, likely not to the same extent of being a name many people know.

            Who, of course, was getting dicked over by Jobs before Apple was even a thing, because Jobs was a thief in so many ways. But I digress.

            It’s a shame so many idolize that garbage.

            • Jo Miran
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              105 months ago

              It’s a shame so many idolize that garbage.

              Dear lord. When Jobs died, the cult of personality that emerged made me want to hurl. Two movies? Did we really even need one?

              You know what I want to see? A comedy about Steve Balmer.

    • @Zombiepirate
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      65 months ago

      He designed a way to gross people out at work by soaking his feet in the toilet.

  • @[email protected]
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    Steve Jobs also didn’t believe in washing his hands or taking showers. He would wear the same clothes way too many days in a row, didn’t wear deodorant and according to people who had to work with him he smelled BAD. That man was not right in the head.

    • paraphrand
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      35 months ago

      I’m pretty sure this was in the 80s.

  • @FederatedSaint
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    175 months ago

    At least he wore a belt in 2009. I can’t stand tucked-in shirts with no belt!

    • @meleethecat
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      135 months ago

      I think he started wearing the belt because he lost a lot of weight from cancer.

  • Poplar?
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    95 months ago

    I must be missing the joke because clearly here it was him intentionally creating something distinct that would be associated with him.

  • @Matriks404
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    35 months ago

    Same but darker jeans, white t-shirt and gray blouse.