Steve Jobs Anecdotes: The Dark Side
There are some devout groups of people, that don’t give a hoot about Apple’s darkling mischiefs, as if they were swirled into the vortex of a latrine and flushed there. Apple’s success and pride come with audacious undertakings. iPhone, iPod, and Mac to name a few. And beyond the scope of doubts is the absolute Stradivarius of a quality these Apple gimmicks entail. To attack Apple for its quality is a charade in a modern sense, and it shall be fraught with thorough vetting. And what has passed through the infundibuliform funnel of public deception, and beyond the spark of doubt, may be Steve Jobs’s sterilized reputation as a good, benignant, man. Every once in a while, he brings the media attendance, and public eyes to a powwow, geyser up some motivational parlance and attitudes, while we glaze over his newest inventions with chortling crackles. Great rumpus, and great atmosphere.
However, the time has come, at which the celluloid has tripped itself up. Steve Jobs tripped up, Apple tripped up. I’m assured, as you were shim sham shimmying through the web, you’ve come across some reports of Steve Jobs’s reproving reaction to some of Apple’s failures: MobileMe. In its early stage, MobileMe was insured to establish a seamless wireless syncing over-the-air. Apple began comparing this nascent platform with the likes of Microsoft Exchange and Google Sync, both of which their respective features and availabilities are succulent to business and casual users alike. A mottled MobileMe, all tousled and corrugated, in return, when it plodded through its final stage before the launch, sputtered out nothing but genuine flackery. It served as a firetrap of blazing oversights, and nothing else. If something were deservingly flung into a toilet, that should be MobileMe. MobileMe is just like Europe, where people pay to use a john. Why does anyone need to pay for email and some sparse cloud storage?
Recent anecdote reveals the swarthy complexion of Steve Jobs that’s hidden beneath his sterile turtleneck. His well-groomed nature is well-known. So, why don’t I flick the ripcord and show you what the anecdote has for us:
Jobs: "Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?" Having received a satisfactory answer, he continues, "So why the f*** doesn't it do that?"
Interestingly, the disclosure of this excerpt was met with some rarefied air, I think, for Jobs isn’t met with harsh words on an open bank of technology congeries. The old dictum, “one swallow doesn’t make a summer” rules all the odds here. For some occult reasons, similar issues are brought up, as to rip his reputation apart, and every time, he summons a berserk fan-base to defend himself. These are the “swallow.” The summer has never come. Steve Jobs is like a hotshot impresario. He sells, and thrives well beyond the troposphere of Wealth. Like all those garbage flicks and Vin Diesel movies, he has not but a sole resolve to entertain people, and wow them. He does this all the time with his aplomb and experience, which are embedded in his blood, and on an intravenous scale. And reeling the lines of the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, one might discover the derivatives of all those ghoulish attitudes toward Apple. See, when these 12 Angry Men start to think over this and mould their unusually glutinous thoughts, they’d come up with 12 different reasons, trifle ones. Apple’s expensive, Steve Jobs is an unctuous geezer, Phil Schiller is resolving into a delusional Jules Winnfield. Those are wild, dirty, accusations to deploy.
On the flip side, those may be Steve Jobs’s temperament and mechanization of human employees at Apple that led Apple to the crawl way toward the right direction. Apple’s like Lionel Logue, amending and thatching all the technological wounds that have been inflicted in the War against anachronistic, stale, developments. Our technology is moving toward the way where it should be directed to, until it’s skeet shot by newer and epochal charms of technology foundations.
Or maybe, this callous reaction to such an outrageous disclosure may hold its answer out of a mail-sorting cubicle. Who knows? I personally find this excerpt that uncovers the cloak-and-dagger Steve Jobs has been living under. He’s just another corporate high-ups with a majestical talent of pretending, and knack of prolixity. Some may find his outrage amusing. But the truth of the matter is the team that had been involved with the first generation MobileMe was effectively fired, and unrightfully so. While he’s noshing on a sinker, those laid off are sniveling. Perhaps not. But this is the nature of Steve Jobs. He may be a phantasmagorical Messiah, or a chameleon-eyed Xavi. But there’s a dark side to him. Not a “silent guardian, or a watchful protector,” but a Hannibal-like complexion.
Look, I’m not trying to flagellate Mr. Jobs until he bellows for clemency. He’s a true visionary, he knows that the world swirls around an axis at 23.5 degrees. And look, he’s a ruddy man with an impressive mouthpiece. But when are we going to question his scruples, as the passel does it so well with Ballmer and Blatter. And look for the final time. Apple’s not going to clench on the rein forever, as there’s a cycle. If you’re clever enough, technology moves forward in two shakes of a lamb’s tail. When Steve Jobs’s dark side looms, and Apple quails in apprehension, that is when its golden era shalt end. The past dallies past each other’s past. But I’d want to suppose my point has been proven and “justice has been done.” Don’t be fooled by his dowdy dissemblance, and make a room for yourself to decide. Does he really have a dark side? Is Catch-22 unjustified? Yawn.
Joonsoo Yi
