"I literally think about him every day."
Possible translation - "I don't know what to do next - please come back!"
Despite Apple cofounder Steve Jobs being dead nearly three years now, current Apple CEO Tim Cook has left Jobs' fourth-floor office at Apple untouched since his passing, a new interview has revealed. Cook made the revelation during a wide-ranging talk with broadcaster Charlie Rose that will air on the PBS TV network in the US …
Jobs never cared about perfection.
He cared about deliberately being incompatible with everything else.
Being quite easy to use. (itunes is hardly logical it is a mess).
I used to think it was just the Windows port of itunes that instead of working properly with parts of Windows that already did better what they wanted they reimplemented loads of stuff (Certainly not perfectly though). Its not that good on a Mac either which really surprised me.
Even its primary function is not perfect. (Compare to Foobar 2000).
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The photo is clever but it's a little mean to mock someone for keeping a memento of a late friend and colleague, isn't it?
I don't really get the cult of Jobs (maybe if it was Woz - he's a brilliant and extremely skilled person), but I'd be pretty upset if I opened a tech news site and saw an article saying "ha ha! h4rm0ny still misses dead friend".
I don't think Tim Cook is weird. What I do think is weird is somebody having the thought in their head of producing that piece of artwork and then taking the time to actually sit down and live out their fantasy.
That's REALLY creepy.
I'll be sure to point Luca Cordero di Montezemolo this way so he can cleanse the DNA of the company in his stewardship and clear out Enzo Ferrari's office (preserved since 1988) to appease you weirdos.
"The photo is clever but it's a little mean to mock someone for keeping a memento of a late friend and colleague, isn't it?"
Most people would consider a memento to be a small keepsake, perhaps something to put on a desk, a wall, or in a cabinet.
An office, kept as it was, is not a memento. It's a shrine.
I can understand, say, parents keeping a late child's room as it was - but keeping a shrine to a late friend or colleage could be seen as a little weird. Given Jobs' history with the company, though, in this case it's probably less so.
However, it's the move to the new Fruit Loop building that will, IMO, reveal on which side of the line it truly fits - whether it's understandable, or whether it's definitely in the weird camp. It depends whether they recreate the shrine in the new building, describing it as his office, when it quite blatantly wasn't, since it didn't exist when he was alive.
>>"Most people would consider a memento to be a small keepsake, perhaps something to put on a desk, a wall, or in a cabinet. An office, kept as it was, is not a memento. It's a shrine."
Well it would be a big ask for me to do it, but if you own a huge headquarters, not wanting to clear out one office and install someone else in it is not such a big deal. What would be a difficult gesture for the individual can be a trivial one for a company with a market cap of $600 billion.
And it's still just mocking someone for grieving. Poor taste, imo.
As it turns out, parents did this for their daughter killed by a drunk driver 16 years ago and left her room as it was.
A news channel was to run a story but Apple sued and stopped it on the grounds they have copyright on the concept. They went "themonuclear" on the parents and managed to get the house seized.
The parents, in despair, threw themselves from a bridge.
A happy ending for Apple all round.
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Cook's spiel fools nobody. He's got less personality than Siri.
Of course Jobs selected him precisely for this reason. A perfect corporate robot, unquestioning of Dear Leader. Steve didn't work well with those that had their own opinions.
This is not the only corporation also functioning as a quasi religion. You just have to look at the likes of Coca Cola to see that. At least with Apple their devotion is focused on a dead human. For Coke it's the "Dynamic Curve". You know the shape of the side of the Coca Cola bottle.
I kid not.
Of course the people at Apple think highly of Steve Jobs, he made them all millionaires.
I'd probably think the same if I hadn't been stupid enough to sell my Apple stock at $35 thinking it wouldn't go any higher (since then 14-1 stock split and current price at $100+, yeah, ouch!).
This is what I was thinking.
It's not uncommon that people who were well regarded in their lifetime end up with an office or study becoming a shrine/musuem such as Charles Dickens or Agatha Christie.
Of course, their's were convienently situated in their home or other easily preservable environment whereas I'm not sure how you achieve the same with a corporate office, unless the old office becomes 'Appleland', kind of like Graceland for Elvis or a theme park based on Apple products and such like.
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