Honest Question About Jobs Worship
Really. I guess I just don't get it. People have made him into some sort of personal god or something. Yes, he and Woz came together and made a good thing for us. But I hardly think it deserves the admiration it gets, especially since it is so lopsided towards Jobs. Don't get me wrong, what they did is very cool and all, but its just... creepy... the way people talk about him. Its like a cult or something scarier!
Two of my favorite things in the world is my guitar and guitar amps. Paul Reed Smith guitar and Sunn amps. I have talked to the original designer of Sunn amps. Cool guy, funny and, in general, a nice guy. But it didn't make him this "god" to me. I have yet to meet PRS, but if I did, I would shake his hand, comment on the fine guitars his company makes and thats that.
Please, someone explain this behavior that is so damn strange to me. I'm expecting to get blasted right off the forum with angry Jobs fans. They are the ones I am hoping who will respond. I want to understand the weirdness afoot.
Two of my favorite things in the world is my guitar and guitar amps. Paul Reed Smith guitar and Sunn amps. I have talked to the original designer of Sunn amps. Cool guy, funny and, in general, a nice guy. But it didn't make him this "god" to me. I have yet to meet PRS, but if I did, I would shake his hand, comment on the fine guitars his company makes and thats that.
Please, someone explain this behavior that is so damn strange to me. I'm expecting to get blasted right off the forum with angry Jobs fans. They are the ones I am hoping who will respond. I want to understand the weirdness afoot.
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EDIT: And no, I don't consider Steve Jobs a beautiful woman... I've never dreamed about him, or Woz, or much else technology-related (only once in a while), but I can see why some people here would.
I mean, he's a great salesman and a good visionary at times, but I doubt anyone around here can honestly say they see him on a God level.
Originally posted by Brad
They have?
I mean, he's a great salesman and a good visionary at times, but I doubt anyone around here can honestly say they see him on a God level.
Brad, open up your typical issue of MacAddict?those monkeys practically cream their 501's at the mere mention of his name.
They're idiots, though, on so many other levels that I guess the above isn't saying much.
Originally posted by mrmister
He's the most charismatic guy in an industry that desperately needs some vision...I think that's why folks gravitate toward him.
Yup. There most deffinelty exists a Cult of Mac, perhaps, as the Mac faltered people shifted to Jobs?
Originally posted by Bagu
You mean, you don't dream about Steve Jobs every night?
I do.. \
I don't see him as God...but perhaps just the closest thing to a computer industry god. Not so much for his technical prowess but for his vision, his ability to raise the bar and take chances.
(Heck with out him, we'd all be still using 5 1/4" floppy diskettes!)
I've never met him, and for all I know he's a jerk in person. But it's obvious his charisma and marketing savvy has brought him far. Far enough to bring together the world's five largest record companies.
Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak.
He is the icon we use to 'humanize' Apple. You can't worship a computer or a platform, but you can a person. People love SJ because he represents all that is good and right about computers. He doesn't have to believe in windows and really makes you believe they are thinking different every day. I love the guy, but not because he is SJ, but instead because he is Apple.
But one can not debate that he IS an awesome pitchman. The RDF does exist. I too watch a keynote, sometimes days after I have heard about the product read reviews etc. And he just jazzes me up.
I think I have nailed at least part of the RDF. He is always so excited about his products that a listener can't help being excited too.
As for Steve, the man has charisma, he has a good instinct for design, he has (lately acquired) the sense to surround himself with really talented people, and he has the sheer hubris and willpower necessary to herd the army of cats that is Apple Computer.
A lot of people are grateful to him for what he's done for Apple since he came back, and some of those people (e.g. yours truly) were absolutely horrified at the initial announcement that Steve would come back. This does not translate into any form of personal admiration. I don't know the guy. From what I do know, I prefer Woz, but I don't think his more easy-going approach could steer Apple quite the way that Steve can. That's not worship, it's just a matter of one human being better cut out for one kind of work than another. Whether some aspect of a person's personality is a flaw is a matter of context.