Hollywood libs vs Cupertino libs. The popcorn is popping!
http://entertainment.time.com/2011/10/28/steve-jobs-and-joan-didion-the-untold-story/
“You ought to buy it,” he said. She couldn’t afford it. They left. He didn’t buy her the dress. “I felt a bit strange about it,” she says. Seems like Jobs could, his high standards as a technologist aside, have striven a little harder for excellence as a boyfriend.
Elsewhere on the web:
“Steve knew that Walter was a credible biographer and that he’d get to the truth—and that’s precisely why Steve chose him,” says Andy Cunningham, a consultant who was Jobs’s public relations handler during his early years at Apple and at his second startup, NeXT Computer. “I don’t think Steve ever denied his faults. He knew what kind of person he was.”
To a great extent, so did everyone else. It has been reported many times that soon after co-founding Apple, Jobs lied about the paternity of his eldest daughter Lisa, claiming in court documents that he couldn’t be the father because he was infertile. (He later accepted responsibility, and she spent much of her childhood living with Jobs). There were countless stories of his poor treatment of employees during his early years at Apple, as well as the public humiliation of his ouster from the company in 1985. Add to the list Jobs’s participation in the backdating of stock options more than a decade ago, which turned out to be far more onerous than backdating by executives at other companies who were forced to resign or even sent to prison.
The mother of his daughter sure did not care for Steve Jobs after he abandoned both.
1st Amendment, anyone?!
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