Posted on 10/04/2015 4:20:55 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Fans of the iPhone and the iPad have long seen the late Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, as a messianic figure, whose drive and vision turned computers from clunky business machines into the epitome of cool.
Danny Boyle's new biopic, starring Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet, will further burnish his remarkable reputation when it premiers next month. But one woman has a different and more traumatic view: Jobs's high school sweetheart Chrisann Brennan.
She lived with Jobs and was an early Apple employee, only for the relationship to fall apart amid wild recriminations when she became pregnant with his first child.
According to Brennan, played in the film by Katherine Waterstone, Jobs – who died in 2011 – became a threatening monster in real life.
He denied he was the father, despite a positive paternity test. He paid a pittance in child support, while living the life of a millionaire. And one of the towering figures of the age even stooped to spreading lies that she had been unfaithful...
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It is really late for me, and I don’t have a dog in this fight, just wanted to tell my experience from trying to manage the details of our micro business experience over the years.
You may be coming from different business/life experience, and your view might be so divergent from mine that we can’t find each other in the fog...
The last 35 years have been such an interesting ride for all of us. so, to each his own.
Our business is now no longer, because my husband has died. But MacIntosh, and Apple enhanced our self-employment and our ability to succeed, and it enriched us in so many ways
I will always be grateful to Apple for that.
None of us leave this life without sin, ego, pride, and gross errors in judgment.
Steve Jobs is not a saint, and none of us should revere him. He was just as flawed as the rest of us are...But he did do a good thing, as Martha would say.
Not sure I see the point in the effort to take him down at this point in time. What is that about?
Who said i want to take him down? All i am saying is that if you are going to do a bio-doc on someone it is best to present as real of a picture of the person as you can, good and bad. His wife is biased positive. Others are biased negative. They both have real experiences with the person and you treat family different than work folks. Jobs himself would create a bio on imself totally different than what anyone else would too.
Just because someone also has an abrasive or harsh work character doesnt also mean they cant be visionary and produe things useful to people. The one honestly has little to do with the other. You can also be a really good person that never invents anything that helps others be more produtive.
But yet, every criticism aimed at Steve Jobs could have been said for every major business titan in the USA since the first one emerged, Cornelius Vanderbuilt. Such business titans had to be equally ruthless towards competitors and sometimes close friends to get way ahead economically; look at how the likes of John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Thomas C. Watson, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg had to be ruthless at times to make their financial success.
The key to Pagemaker and Apple was its easy intuitive design. It was pretty easy to figure out how to do all kinds of things. There were even keyboard shortcuts in case you didn't want to remove your hand from the keyboard while working. The word processing program worked great with it, always reliable, except you got in the habit of saving frequently if you were smart.
The "Windows" concept people use today was a rip-off from Apple, bigger than life. I hated PCs (until I had to convert to them, alas) and to this day find Windows a bad imitation of Apple.
Our son is in this film.
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