Comments on: Does Everybody Really Love Steve Jobs? http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/01/09/does-everybody-really-love-steve-jobs/ Essays on politics, culture and ideas about Israeli-Arab peace and world music Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:25:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jason Truesdell http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/01/09/does-everybody-really-love-steve-jobs/#comment-6650 Jason Truesdell Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:50:25 +0000 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/01/09/does-everybody-really-love-steve-jobs/#comment-6650 Jobs is like most other SV CEOs, ego-driven and self-indulgent. He may be better dressed than average for the industry, but I think he only owns the one outfit. I like a lot of Apple's products, but I don't have any illusions that Jobs is morally superior to any other tech company executive, including the one responsible for paying many of my bills since 1997. Heck, it's a tremendously closed, vertically-integrated and horizontally-integrated business... they're just small enough that nobody complains yet. Plus, they're going to have at least a small legal battle with Cisco over trademark rights... http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070110-8594.html Jobs is like most other SV CEOs, ego-driven and self-indulgent. He may be better dressed than average for the industry, but I think he only owns the one outfit. I like a lot of Apple’s products, but I don’t have any illusions that Jobs is morally superior to any other tech company executive, including the one responsible for paying many of my bills since 1997. Heck, it’s a tremendously closed, vertically-integrated and horizontally-integrated business… they’re just small enough that nobody complains yet.

Plus, they’re going to have at least a small legal battle with Cisco over trademark rights…
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070110-8594.html

]]> By: Ethan http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/01/09/does-everybody-really-love-steve-jobs/#comment-6648 Ethan Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:42:48 +0000 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/01/09/does-everybody-really-love-steve-jobs/#comment-6648 It would seem that Jobs is a reflection of the company he currently heads: hip, straightforward, and populist on the surface but predictably cynical, opportunistic, and profit-driven at the core. And I have to say, the latter characteristics aren't necessarily flaws when applied to a corporation. It would seem that Jobs is a reflection of the company he currently heads: hip, straightforward, and populist on the surface but predictably cynical, opportunistic, and profit-driven at the core. And I have to say, the latter characteristics aren’t necessarily flaws when applied to a corporation.

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