Biography: Steve Jobs Was Better Than Everyone Else, But We Already Knew That


Did you know that Steve Jobs is smarter than you? Did you also know that he’s the only person to invest anything worthwhile? That’s basically the thinking of Jobs in Walter Isaacson’s upcoming biography titled Steve Jobs.

In his biography Steve Jobs goes off on a tangent, calling the Google Android OS a “grand theft” of Apple’s ideas. According to the Huffington Post when speaking about his company’s lawsuit against HTC which named the Google Android OS he said:

“I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this,”

Jobs then added:

“Our lawsuit is saying, ‘Google you f—ing ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off,” Jobs said. “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product.”

In the biography Jobs also attacked Bill Gates saying he was:

“Basically unimaginative and has never invented anything” and instead “just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas.” Jobs went on to stay that Bill Gates would “be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.”

Jobs also went off on President Obama during a fall 2010 meeting in which he said he was “headed for a one-term presidency” because he wouldn’t make it cheap enough to build new factories in the US. After that meeting Jobs said he would help Obama create his 2012 ads.

Let’s be clear about one thing, Apple as a company has never actually “invented” any major findings for their industries. The company’s true talents comes from bettering products that already exist in one form or another. The iPhone arrived decades after cell phone technology was invented, their iPod line prettied up an already existing MP3 player market and the iPad took the idea of tablet computing and dumbed it down for the masses. Even their heralded Apple OS X interface came about after the company witnessed progress Xerox was making in the late 1970’s with graphical user interfaces (the same interface that led Microsoft to their own Windows systems).

That’s not to say I don’t appreciate the beauty found in Apple products, specifically the simplicity for which they are designed to operate, but Steve Jobs claiming that his company invented modern day technology is ignorant, less we forget it was his Apple co-founder Steve Wozniack who would come home after a full day of work for Hewlett-Packard and personally build the company’s Apple I and Apple II components by hand, both on the hardware and software front while Jobs handled the business side…then again maybe Steve Jobs invented “business” too.

Feel free to use our comments section to tell me why I’m wrong and Apple is our savior, I expect to see plenty of fanboy comments starting right…now. (I’ll be checking them on my iPhone 4s…go figure).

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