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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You will find that Steve Jobs did not support many causes at all. . . his political donations are small compared to the political donations of others with his kind of money. When he returned to Apple he cut off all political donations and, although registered as a Democrat, when asked why he did not allow Apple to support Democrat causes, he replied something to the equivalent of "Half of Apple's customers are from the other side of the political spectrum, and I won't piss off half of Apple's customer base by making political or charitable donations they won't like and vice verse." Even his personal political giving during the last ten years of his life was casper milquetoast. . . donating less than $200,000 total.
Any donations attributed to the name Apple actually came from the Apple Employees Political Action Committee. . . which were generally to Liberal leaning causes and candidates by about an 80/20 split.
Apple did not even have a major lobbying presence in Washington.
Apple has become more political since Steve Jobs' passing under Tim Cook, but mostly for civil rights issues and LGBT issues. Even there Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others were doing it far longer and gave more financial support than Apple ever did.
The Aaron Sorkin one. . .
Thank you. It drives me nuts when people throw around the term “leftist” with no backup or justification.
No, Wozniak created the Apple I. But he had a lot of help in creating the Apple II. . . which required Steve Jobs and his creative efforts in putting together a company and persuading people to invest and bringing their talents to bear in making a MANUFACTURABLE and SALABLE product that could make a profit. Steve Wozniak had no idea how to accomplish any of those things. Woz was a geek. . . but not ever a business genius. He wanted to give the Apple I away to his friends for the cost of materials. Jobs made him a multimillionaire many times over.
Yes, yes, yes!!!!!! I have always said this. Also go to a store & see how they treat the checkout people, how they are around dogs & kids. Tells A LOT about a person. I’d say the waiter thing is a great gauge of someone on a first date, not foolproof, but a look at their character.
“Be hard pressed to name a CEO at that level who was not an AS***LE.”
No doubt. Every successful person can say they have upset half the crowd. Bill Gates, for instance, made millionaires out of countless people, yet, some of those still hated him.
It isn’t fair to disparage a person Like Steve Jobs that drove an industry when so much that people don’t like of that industry are the fault of the countless thousands that also participated in the decision making.
Steve did good. Not my kind of personal friend, but he should be remembered as one of the key figures in making the personal computer a useful product.
probably true. which is why any documentary on them worth watching should show the real personas accurately as possible,’warts and all.
the fact hismwife doesnt like it tells me theres some truths in it. same with some others that knew him saying he was worse. it could be a fair handed assessment of him, after all.
Writing on an iPad now and use an iPhone and they are wonderful devices. Sounds like Jobs was a narcissist. Narcs are the devils walking among us; they have no compassion, feelings, nor empathy for anyone except themselves. Narcs brutalize others and their special hell is that they can’t be fixed and suffer daily themselves. RIP
I found this article earlier today about the reactions of some to the movie, and am posting it here for everyone’s consideration.
All I can say is that without Steve Jobs, our little mom and pop architectural design, project management, and construction management firm would have been difficult to run profitably.
The two of us were able to make a good living, without having to hire employees, and support our family of four children.
For that I am grateful to Apple, and the MacIntosh computers that we used over the years.
If you do not have a subscription to the Wall Street Journal, you can get to it via Drudge right now, top left of page.
my comment was about accurately documenting a person. i made no comment about apple products themselves. you can get a bunch of folks saying the same thing about pcs, or windows.
Steve Jobs was an unmitigated asshole. But he was also a brilliant visionary. Nobody’s perfect.
We have iphone, ipad, android smart phones and tablet, Windows XP and Linux desktops and XP laptops.
Well dang.
Let’s have James Cameron and Michael Bay take a crack at it over the next three years or so.
Then zombify David L. Wolper and see what he can do for 2018.
Maybe we can have 15 “Jobs” movies in the can before shooting wraps on the 14th “Star Trek”. Or the 8th “Star Wars”...
Amd it sounds like she was a typical leftist woman — shacking up with the jerk instead of getting married.
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.
the consequences of immorality. You shack up, reject tradition and are shocked that the baby daddy isn’t a nice guy! No sympathy except for the child.
Btw, I’ve read that most businessleaders and politicians are narcissists. Kind of have to be to make decisions to build empires.
I have no doubt he was a bit of a spoiled brat. Again, not my kind of personal friend, but he is my kind of industry leader.
It tells a lot when you see people behave toward the “help”.
So true. The Apple II was as much Steve Jobs' creation as it was Wozniak's. A lot of the engineering was Wozniak, creating the switching power supply, motherboard artwork (which is truly a work of art), and later on the disk drives. But Jobs poured his passion into the packaging and design (yes, involving a few others and guiding them), as well as all the business decisions. Story goes that Wozniak dragged his heels on putting together a floating point BASIC which is why Jobs pulled Microsoft into supplying it (thereby helping Microsoft exist). Wozniak couldn't do it all; it was Jobs who made the Apple II happen.
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