Jobs: An Evil Genius?

Charles Manson would shift in his grave if he knew his cult was like a molehill, when compared to that of Apples'. Don't get me wrong, I like Apple products as much as the next person. What's not to love? The design, the innovation (this is debatable), ease of operation..  But the fanatical devotion displayed by Apple users borders on paranoia. It's as if they feel that if they don't put every other product down (case in point - Blackberry,Google and god forbid Microsoft), how will they succeed? 

I saw this speech by an ex-apple evangelist, Guy Kawasaki, which was I'll admit, very entertaining. So, I went and got his book 'Selling the Dream', which was funny to begin with but by the end of the book, I was convinced, something is wrong with Apple employees. So the writer had only good things to say about Apple, but somehow the only company I liked less at the end of the book ,was Apple (irony!). Why you ask? Thanks to him bashing IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard & every other Silicon Valley company. Quite putting off. This holds true for Apple employees and the users, well the crazy ones. 

If Microsoft was a crime against humanity, then Apple is no saint either.

No prizes for guessing who's responsible for all the paranoia and the obsession that surrounds Apple. Steve Jobs the self proclaimed Che Guevera of the PC revolution.

  

Bur Apple did not start with just Steve Jobs -

*There's Steve Wozniak who is the brains behind the Macintosh computer 

*Mike Markkula the venture capitalist (cash provider)

*And Jobs

 It did end with just Steve Jobs. Jobs has the ability create, what is called, a Reality Distortion Field, making small innovations sound like ground-breaking products. When he talks of his products, you listen. In his latest speech promoting the i-pad, he himself said that Apple has stood on the shoulders of Kindle and made a product that is better. Ground breaking innovation? I think not.

                    

  Not to undermine Jobs, he might not be the man behind Apple, technology-wise; but he is the man behind Apple- the GIANT of a company; Apple the cult & all the 'i-ho's'. If you weren't already aware, he got fired  from Apple but rejoined the company and brought it back from near death. He is no electrical engineer like Woz, he certainly was not an experienced businessman like Gates, but what he is, is an insane marketer and a demon of a sales person.

Apple IS Jobs. The end justifies the means.

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