Disturbing Jobs Report

[Perknose]

When Steve Jobs told his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs that the Apple Lisa computer was not named after her, it was not a cruel lie to a little girl, she insists — he was teaching her “not to ride on his coattails.”

When Mr. Jobs refused to install heat in her bedroom, he was not being callous, she says — he was instilling in her a “value system.”

When a dying Mr. Jobs told Ms. Brennan-Jobs that she smelled “like a toilet,” it was not a hateful snipe, she maintains — he was merely showing her “honesty.”

It’s a strange thing to write a devastating memoir with damning details but demand that these things are not, in fact, damning at all. Yet that’s exactly what Ms. Brennan-Jobs has done in a new memoir, “Small Fry,” and in a series of interviews conducted over the last few weeks.

I guess she wasn't exactly . . . wait for it . . . the Apple of his eye.

 

[darkswordsman17]

What the fuck. What a fucking asshole.

And considering he was known to soak his feet in toilet water when he was nervous (like before presentations I believe?), and was noted for poor bathing habits, I'm not sure that he should be criticizing someone for smelling like a toilet. Then again, he probably somehow got things fucked up so that "toilet smell" to him was probably just the smell of being clean.

 

[K1052]

Not at all a surprise but it's interesting. Many of the great innovators and inventors were terrible people personally who's histories have been white washed after their deaths. Jobs is just another example.

Also she's more like him than she'd care to admit based on that read.

 

[PricklyPete]

While I have always felt that Steve Jobs was an ass, there is some truth to what she is saying.

I feel the same way about my mother. We were definitely raised via “tough love” from her...and I think it is primarily the reason my five siblings and I have been successful at whatever we have done.

 

[Thebobo]

Jobs was a wacko. Apparently he didn't do enough LSD. I'm much more interested to hear about Wozniak.

 

[momeNt]

Well. Despite all his efforts. None of what he attempted to teach her sunk in.

She's writing a memoir, and basically riding on his coattails. Hope it is worth it Lisa, you toilet.

 

[lxskllr]

The death of Mr Jobs is a positive event.

I'm sorry to break it to you like that. He was a great artist and a moral monster, and he brought us closer to the end of freedom every single time he put something out, because he hated sharing. It wasn't his fault. He was an artist. He hated sharing because he believed he invented everything even though he didn't.

Inside all those fine little boxes with the lit up apples on them that I see all around the room, is a bunch of free software tailored to give *him* control. Nothing illegal. Nothing wrong. He obeyed the licenses. He screwed us every time he could, and he took everything we gave him, and he made beautiful stuff that controlled its users.

Once upon a time, there was a man here who built stuff, in Berlin for Albert Speer. His name was Philip Johnson, and he was a wonderful artist, and a moral monster. And he said he went to work building buildings for the nazis because they had all the best graphics. And he meant it, because he was an artist, as Mr Jobs was an artist. But artistry is no guarantee of morality. We need free software.

The tablets that you use, that Mr Jobs designed are made to control you. You can't change the software. It's hard even to do ordinary programming. It doesn't really matter, they're just tablets. We just use them. We're just consuming the glory of what they give us, but they are consuming you too.

 

[Sonikku]

By all accounts he was a total asshole to everybody. It was said that when Apple handed out numbered employee cards and he was #2 and his fellow co creator was #1 that he commissioned a new card for himself making him #0.

 

[manly]

Umm the worst part of the article was when Steve Jobs babysat young Lisa and was teasing her about boys "smashing" her in years to come. While it mortified the ex, Ms. Brennan swore Steve wasn't a pedo; he just doesn't have a decency filter.