I think most of you are jumping the gun a bit. Doesn't every parent feel like they could have done more for their kids? We don't know how much Steve was there, just that he thinks he could have been there more. We also don't know what his kids think about their childhood.
You're assuming that Steve was a bad dad, an absentee father - you could be wrong. At least wait until the biography comes out before you make your value judgments on his family life.
I hope Jobs made his peace with his daughter before he left. I don't just mean a bit of public reconcilation.
What he did then was a real doucheabag move. And the only reason people excuse what he did was because of who he turned out to be. If any of you heard that your the boyfriend of your next-door neighbour had left her with a child on social assistance by claiming to be impotent while he ran off to make gadgets, how many of you would say, "That's okay. He might turn out to be one of history's greatest figures so I guess it's okay." It was a particularly galling move given that this man found himself adopted because his own father was unwilling to take care of him. You'd think he would have understood what this little girl might face by him abandoning her.
None of this is to take away from Jobs' technological genius. We're lucky to live in an era when he lives. I daresay that history may remember him on par with Da Vinci, or at least on par with Ford or Edison. But with at least one of his children, he most certainly had a lot of making up to do as a father.
The bio may well be necessary. His oldest is 20 and his youngest is 13. Those three kids are awfully young to lose their father, particular one that didn't get a ton of time with.
Why wait for the book to read about Steve. There have been numerous articles written about him throughout the years..
At age 23, and already wealthy, Jobs fathered a child and for 2 years,
while the mother was on welfare, he kept denying he was the father. He
even went as far as signing a court documents stating he was "sterile and infertile, and as a result thereof, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child."
Microsoft, HP and Motorola deeply regret ever partnering with the Apple.
Apple even tried to license its OS at one time and then literally put their licensees out of business by breaking their promise to support them because it was not convenient.
Jobs' personal abuses are also legend: He parks his Mercedes in handicapped spaces, periodically reduces subordinates to tears, and fires employees in angry tantrums.
Stanford management science professor Robert Sutton discussed Jobs in his bestselling 2007 book, "The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't." "As soon as people heard I was writing a book on assholes, they would come up to me and start telling a Steve Jobs story,"
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You're assuming that Steve was a bad dad, an absentee father - you could be wrong. At least wait until the biography comes out before you make your value judgments on his family life.
What he did then was a real doucheabag move. And the only reason people excuse what he did was because of who he turned out to be. If any of you heard that your the boyfriend of your next-door neighbour had left her with a child on social assistance by claiming to be impotent while he ran off to make gadgets, how many of you would say, "That's okay. He might turn out to be one of history's greatest figures so I guess it's okay." It was a particularly galling move given that this man found himself adopted because his own father was unwilling to take care of him. You'd think he would have understood what this little girl might face by him abandoning her.
None of this is to take away from Jobs' technological genius. We're lucky to live in an era when he lives. I daresay that history may remember him on par with Da Vinci, or at least on par with Ford or Edison. But with at least one of his children, he most certainly had a lot of making up to do as a father.
The bio may well be necessary. His oldest is 20 and his youngest is 13. Those three kids are awfully young to lose their father, particular one that didn't get a ton of time with.
At age 23, and already wealthy, Jobs fathered a child and for 2 years,
while the mother was on welfare, he kept denying he was the father. He
even went as far as signing a court documents stating he was "sterile and infertile, and as a result thereof, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child."
http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news...une/index2.htm
Microsoft, HP and Motorola deeply regret ever partnering with the Apple.
Apple even tried to license its OS at one time and then literally put their licensees out of business by breaking their promise to support them because it was not convenient.
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blo...rned/?cs=16537
Jobs' personal abuses are also legend: He parks his Mercedes in handicapped spaces, periodically reduces subordinates to tears, and fires employees in angry tantrums.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news...tune/index.htm
http://www.cultofmac.com/steve-jobs-...-pictures/2613
Stanford management science professor Robert Sutton discussed Jobs in his bestselling 2007 book, "The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't." "As soon as people heard I was writing a book on assholes, they would come up to me and start telling a Steve Jobs story,"
http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news...tune/index.htm