Steve Jobs: “Freedom from porn”
[Via Brainstorm Tech]
“Traditional PC folks feel their world is slipping away,” says Apple’s CEO. “It is.”
Click to enlarge. Source: Valleywag
Kudos to Valleywag‘s Ryan Tate for posting in full his bizarre late-night alcohol-induced e-mail debate with Steve Jobs, given — as he is the first to admit — how bad some of the things he wrote make him look. (He drops names he shouldn’t, he can’t seem to spell Cocoa correctly, and he’ll have hell to pay when his wife gets home.)
The 10-message exchange — six from Tate, four from Jobs — touches on a wide range of hot-button issues: the Adobe (ADBE) Flash controversy, the lost iPhone debacle, Apple’s (AAPL) hard line on non-native applications and Jobs’ personal views on freedom, pornography and a life worth living.
“Gosh, why are you so bitter over a technical issue such as this?” Jobs asks Tate at one point. And he ends with a zinger that says volumes about his attitude toward people who write — rather than build computers — for a living:
“By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?”
As MTLB‘s Bill Green’s wrote, you will either hate or respect Steve Jobs a little more after this exchange. Read it in full here.
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If you want to get a great idea of how self-important some writers are and how arrogant Steve Jobs can be, read the emails.
What I get out of it is that the writer sounds like a petulant boy who wants to eat pizza, when a steak has been prepared while Jobs sounds like the mature adult saying the boy is free to fix a sandwich if he wants but there will be no pizza.
I’m glad Jobs is taking this approach – answering some things via email. This was really interesting because it reveals some of the immature attitude of some writers. It really takes something to make Jobs, with all his history,seem like the man of reason on this topic.
I wonder what Steve would say to an email from my mother. She has emailed him before – being a long time Mac user – and, while not getting a personal reply, has had very rapid return phone calls and assistance. I think I’ll ask her.
