“Make something wonderful” is canonized

  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    Jobs wasn’t innovative, he knew innovative people and took their credit. He was a businessman.

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        10 months ago

        The fact you believe this just proves how big of a scam artist he was.

        His biggest success (and scam) was how he sold himself as being some tech god, which is still believed by many even this long after his death.

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        10 months ago

        He worked very hard to make you think this, yeah. Meanwhile all the people doing the work remained pretty obscure.

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      10 months ago

      Jobs was a glorified salesman. Edison was an oligarch notorious for lying, cheating, stealing, and his complete lack of ethics and morals.

      I’m absolutely no fan of Jobs but Edison was the bigger bastard.

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        10 months ago

        Jobs took credit for everyone else’s work. He presented himself as a visionary and a creator, when he was mostly just a liar and a thief.

        Maybe Edison was worse. I’m not saying Jobs was worse than Edison. I’m saying Jobs fabricated a legacy that a lot of people still believe, and will believe for a long time.

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    10 months ago

    If only there was a person who actually had anything to do with the Cray 1 they could put on it instead? Maybe that person will even share the name with the computer?

    It gets worse the more you think about it. Cray and Jobs had completely opposing paradigms for how to develop computers. Cray was always innovating and providing capability, Jobs was always simplifying and burying low-level tools.

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        10 months ago

        He’s clearly saying he doesn’t think Jobs was related to Cray. The double negative is likely unintentional and English is not everyone’s first language.