Originally posted by dricci
Uh, Steve Jobs annoying? HOW? Nobody outside of Cupertino hardly ever sees him in public! He like comes out of hiding 3 times a year for keynotes and special events and then goes back to his office.
Now if you want annoying, look no further than Monkey man at Microsoft.
Why he might be annoying:
He dropped out of Reed College after one semester.
He stole the idea of GUI (Graphic User Interface) from Xerox.
In an effort to share the GUI ideas with Bill Gates, Gates ripped him off and stole GUI.
He created competition among workers and virtually led to some nervous breakdowns.
He ran Apple using cult-like motivation techniques.
He left Apple in 1985 to produce the NeXT, a $10,000 computer that had little public appeal.
He is a vegetarian.
In the '70s, he helped sell Steve Wozniak's illegal blue box which allowed users to make phone calls for free.
Why he might not be annoying:
He made a million dollars when he was twenty-five.
He was adopted.
He rejected the corporate way of doing business.
He turned his Apple corporation into a work campus where workers could work barefoot, sleep and put in the hours they wanted.
Although an electronic genius, he admits the Steve Wozniak was the real technical brain behind the Apple computer.
Jobs was the marketing genius that promoted Apple.
