An obvious explanation is that the California-based tech world, obsessed as it is with the ideals of PC-diversity, was primed and ready for a female Steve Jobs to come along.
As has happened in the past, a charlatan who looks the part in every way comes along and walks off with all the marbles.
I had no idea this current was running through the Silicon Valley herd-mentality culture, but I live in the northeast.
Having seen how intensely liberal and out-of-touch Silicon Valley is during the last election, it’s now obvious what happened.
She became obsessed with wealth and her supposed brilliance. She had no inner standards of truth.
At one point I suspect she believed her own hype about her poor product and did not want to get off the gravy train it provided.
It is not unlike the scientists that studied global warming and believed in it. It was very lucrative. When the data did not verify their beliefs they falsified the data. Been their but did not do it and did not get the T Shirt. Not global warming but other areas of research.
Actually most innovative research ends in failure. Sometimes the failure leads to other concepts and ideas that are good.
I well remember when research was honorable. If you were right you published. If you were wrong you published the failure so others did not repeat the same errors. This honor has been corrupted by government grants that "want an pre decided outcome."
Dr Micheal Mann is the prime example of scientific fraud. He is a moderately rich man because he lies.
When I lived in Reading, England we had a Geologic Society at Reading University. Reading University is the premier university in the study of sedimentary geology. That is where the oil is, it is in the sediment basins of the world. I was not a student but just a geologist working in the North Sea. We had the privilege of having world renowned geology scholars come to our society and lecture. They were from Cambridge and Oxford etc. We paid them grandly. A train ticket, a place to sleep, a meal, and all the beer they could drink at the local Moorland Pub. Sometimes the beer tab was greater than the meal. This is how real science works. I miss those days dearly.