Jobs was uneducated. He is no expert in ths area. He had a 50-50 chance of being right.

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Anonymous wrote:Steve Jobs was brilliant when it came to business and politics is in many ways just business. The fact that he was less successful in his personal life has no bearing on this discussion. He was spot on.

You morons think that Jobs' success is his ability to predict the future? His success was due to his ability to learn from his many, many failures. He constantly applied himself to improve a few basic ideas over the course of his entire career. Let's review his failures:

*The Apple III sucked.
*The Lisa bombed.
*The first Mac struggled against cheaper PC's with color and due to poor reliability.
(People have somehow forgotten that the previous two are why he was canned).

He then went on to found NeXT.

*NeXT computers were a failure. Remember that magneto-optical drive? Big hit. Oh and they cost $6500 in 1988. And he said his target market was college students. The company lasted what three years?. And its saving grace was that it was an available unix-based operating system, not exactly an innovation.

*Recently back at apple, he launched the Apple G4 cube. It bombed. This was the first machine designed with the aesthetic style of Jonathan Ive, who gave the ipod and iphone their style. The case cracked and the value wasn't there. Here is how they unceremoniously dumped their baby: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/07/03Apple-Puts-Power-Mac-G4-Cube-on-Ice.html

*Apple TV is good, but it isn't selling. Still.

*Throughout these years, apple failed time and again to make it into the productivity software business. They practically give it away.


Only a fool thinks that the brilliance of Jobs was prediction. Jobs' talent was obsessive refinement.

His success was also due to his ability to screw his business partners, like Wozniak, over without blinking an eye.

*his daughter... Hahaha ho's!!! LOL

*He also

He thought he was invincible and didn't treat his cancer properly.

He so abandoned ho's daughter and lied to the courts that he was sterile because he didn't want to pay child support. He made up with her once she was an adult- I would have told him to go f*ck himself.

He parked in handicapped spaces until the outrage started causing problems.

He expected the POTUS to kowtow to him.

He obviously knew better than all the doctors and surgeons he had access to.

In the end, his hubris killed him. I guess five billion dollars and a few electronic gizmos were worth it.

Anonymous wrote:Steve Jobs was brilliant when it came to business and politics is in many ways just business. The fact that he was less successful in his personal life has no bearing on this discussion. He was spot on.

You morons think that Jobs' success is his ability to predict the future? His success was due to his ability to learn from his many, many failures. He constantly applied himself to improve a few basic ideas over the course of his entire career. Let's review his failures:

*The Apple III sucked.
*The Lisa bombed.
*The first Mac struggled against cheaper PC's with color and due to poor reliability.
(People have somehow forgotten that the previous two are why he was canned).

He then went on to found NeXT.

*NeXT computers were a failure. Remember that magneto-optical drive? Big hit. Oh and they cost $6500 in 1988. And he said his target market was college students. The company lasted what three years?. And its saving grace was that it was an available unix-based operating system, not exactly an innovation.

*Recently back at apple, he launched the Apple G4 cube. It bombed. This was the first machine designed with the aesthetic style of Jonathan Ive, who gave the ipod and iphone their style. The case cracked and the value wasn't there. Here is how they unceremoniously dumped their baby: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/07/03Apple-Puts-Power-Mac-G4-Cube-on-Ice.html

*Apple TV is good, but it isn't selling. Still.

*Throughout these years, apple failed time and again to make it into the productivity software business. They practically give it away.


Only a fool thinks that the brilliance of Jobs was prediction. Jobs' talent was obsessive refinement.

You didn't have to have any special talent to know that Obama will be a one-term president.

Steve Jobs was brilliant when it came to business and politics is in many ways just business. The fact that he was less successful in his personal life has no bearing on this discussion. He was spot on.

Steve Jobs went 9 months on a holistic regimen for his cancer instead of having surgery. It probably killed him.

Jobs was a true visionary who could see the future like none other. But even he could not envision the current crop of Republican candidates.

That is from the same guy who had the rare form of cancer that has a very high rate of survival...... if treated properly but he felt he knew better............