The Man who Thought Different

Reflection on "The Man who thought different"

In Steve Jobs's Biography, ("the man who thought different") Steve Jobs's co workers seemed to both despise Steve Jobs, and at the same time admire him. Explain.

     Steve Jobs was a perfectionist, and that was a key factor towards Apple and their products. He would include such details in his products that really made them the best! He had such a sense of design that made his products look like futuristic alien technology! But Jobs also had an unpleasant side.

     Steve Jobs was a man who thought between the lines. He was a man who "thought different". He could always envision a new idea, apply it, and combine his idea into a sort of product (and the product he would think of would probably be incredible!) .

For example, Apple was the first company to apply the mouse to a computer! (even though Jobs stole the idea of having a mouse from Xerox...) . 

Steve and his team would also think of the strangest designs for his Apple Mac computers. But although Steve made lots of mistakes in his life, he would always try and make his computer as simple as possible, and make it for the people! (except for the incredible high price he made his products worth) ... 

     Although people might say that Steve Jobs was a pure genius, he was also a mean, selfish, rude man who treated his employees with disrespect. He would yell and often curse at his employees at any idea they had that he was opposed to. Jobs also always had to be the best, he always was right in arguments, and he always had to be the genius. At the beginning, when apple was first created, every employee was given a number, according to their position, and Jobs was furious when he learned that he had number 2 and Steve Wozniak, co founder of Apple, was number 1. He would then call himself number 0. He would never listen to any advice his co workers gave him. For example, Steve Wozniak told Jobs to put lots of memory on the Macs he created, and Jobs refused to listen to him because he claimed that the computer would "look so dreadful" with more memory on it. This cost a lot to Apple's business, as fewer computers were sold as a result.

Jobs would also take credit for any great ideas his employees had. All that tension Jobs had with his workers would lead to the reason he got fired from Apple at the age of 30. He would often take advantage of his (so called) friends and sometimes betray them for his own good.

     Jobs spent long periods of time not talking to his friends or worse, his family. For example, his first daughter Lisa, which he did not talk or interact with until she was about 20. Also he would regularly leave his home for weeks or even months without talking to his wife or daughter , and come back one day as if nothing had happened. 

   Jobs would also inconspicuously take off his car plates and get the closest/best parking spot that was reserved for the handicaps, so when the police came, they couldn't give him a ticket.

     But with all Jobs's negative traits and social difficulties, people still recognized him as a very smart man who could really change the way we live in. A few years after he got fired from Apple, he was asked to come back and he and his team would then completely revolutionize the world we live in ( e.g creating iphones, ipads, ipods...). That wouldn't have happened if Jobs hadn't come back.