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Jon Shurtleff — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:03:50 +0000

I agree that Jobs is a remarkable man and has accomplished amazing things but there’s a dark side that isn’t mentioned much.
Example’s: Jobs has an enormous ego and much is said about the ‘realty distortion field’ that surrounds him. How much does it say about his character that he is best friends with l
Larry Elison of Oracle who’s stated business motto is that ‘It’s not enough that I win but everyone else has to lose’. How many careers have been destroyed or seriously damaged because some poor person couldn’t justify his job in 2 minute in one his tyrades? Is ruthlessness in business succes by ruthlessness really a virtue? And what about the the fact that as classy, stable and pretty Apple’s products are, they are so proprietary that is infuriating to be locked into them if anything goes wrong. The discontent of the Apple developers community is lendendary in that Apple is very unresponsive to their needs. I write this on an iPhone, which I love, but it took THREE iterations before Apple implemented the basic function of cut-and-paste without any justifaction for the delay.

As I contemplate whether I want to invest effort in developing software for the iPhone I have to contemplate, along with every other developer whether it will survive the black box of Apple’s approval process.

Jobs fits the ticket of the 20th century’s business ideal but I’m reminded a book I read about the man who singlehandedly invented the copymachine and through 20 years of hard work and failure after failure worked until he eventually saw it develop into a multimillion dollar business. To the end of his life, regardless of his immense wealth, he lived in a small, modest house, only adding a small addition. Once retired, he spent the rest of his life personally answering letters from and donating money to people who needed it. (Copies in Seconds)

There are many, many others like.him who don’t make the headlines and are not even interested in doing so.

How do you really measure succes?

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