“Make something wonderful” is canonized

  • maskquerade@ttrpg.network
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    1 hour ago

    As cool as it is to hate on Steve Jobs, he did a lot of things right and I believe the digital landscape would be better if he was still around.

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    1 day ago

    Jobs wasn’t innovative, he knew innovative people and took their credit. He was a businessman.

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      Nah. Jobs was crazy innovative and a major driving force for making computers accessible to the general populace.

      “Think different” meant don’t be a fuckin retard who forgot what it means to be human just to fit in with other retards.

      • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        45 minutes ago

        The fact you believe this just proves how big of a scam artist he was.

        His biggest success (and scam) was how he sold himself as being some tech god, which is still believed by many even this long after his death.

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          29 minutes ago

          You don’t have to be a tech god to not be a retard.

          His whole shthick was about making computers accessible to laymen, which most people didn’t care about at the time.

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      1 day ago

      Jobs was a glorified salesman. Edison was an oligarch notorious for lying, cheating, stealing, and his complete lack of ethics and morals.

      I’m absolutely no fan of Jobs but Edison was the bigger bastard.

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        23 hours ago

        Jobs took credit for everyone else’s work. He presented himself as a visionary and a creator, when he was mostly just a liar and a thief.

        Maybe Edison was worse. I’m not saying Jobs was worse than Edison. I’m saying Jobs fabricated a legacy that a lot of people still believe, and will believe for a long time.