Comments on: Maybe No One Told Steve Jobs That “iPad” Sounded Like Delicate Sanitary Protection

By: adamac

adamac — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:20:21 +0000

Yeah, it's unfortunate that people here can't see that. This is why the iPhone took off, and why , there's an app for everything, websites in particular. bali villa rental

By: JimW

JimW — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:31:20 +0000

Dear FrankT, quite the contrary to what you say, I don’t believe “any” genius is a saint. Picasso, Richard Wagner, Chopin, Trollope, Dickens, Beethoven, Salinger… I get weirded-out when those with far less talent write books about great people. David Kord Murray can portray Steven Jobs however he likes, but I don’t have to accept it as anything less than petty when he says of Jobs: “something of a tyrant, who terrorizes Apple staff with his brutal, dismissive criticism.” So what? Or Jeff Young and Bill Simon: “Working for him was a nightmare.” Edison was a nightmare too. The only brilliant thing about the Palmer biography movie of Wagner was Wagner’s music. Please read the bio in today times of Salinger, or better yet, read Thayer’s Biography of Beethoven who once threw a bowl of soup in a waiter’s face and would defecate in a pot and put it under his piano. I think all who work for Apple are well paid and receive all sorts of dividends, which by now, have made them very rich.

By: FrankT

FrankT — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:06:06 +0000

Rachel, Thanks for this very interesting research. No wonder Steve Jobs went through with
the awful name. JimW should see the reality, that not every great CEO is a saint.
The article was very fair. It is because we worship “public images” such as that of
Steve Jobs that we never learn their strengths and weaknesses.
In any event, it is true that a person’s greatest strength is also his/her greatest weakness.
Steve Jobs is very aggressive in pushing forward an innovation and breaking through
all obstacles. Those same qualities can browbeat all around him to fear telling him the
occasional truth that might have actually helped Steve Jobs not to become the butt of the
entire Internet’s jokes. Kudos Rachel. Keep up the great work!

By: JimW

JimW — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:15:12 +0000

Rachel, I don’t think this nasty piece is fun at all. A lot of really wonderful things have been written about Steve Jobs. I choose to believe he is an extraordinary genius and don’t really get your whole iPad/maxi-pad thing anyway. But thanks for reminding us that you’re an attorney, so were Tulkinghorn and Vholes of “Bleak House,” a much better book than “Borrowing Brilliance” or “iCon.”