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Steve Jobs Posthumously Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
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The best of what ‘Humanity has to offer’?
Steve was was a genius, no doubt there. But he also had a very lengthy history of how he mistreated people in and out of the tech industry. To me, that doesn’t qualify as ‘The best of what humanity has to offer’, not when he was known to be volatile. So no, I don’t think your comment really coincides with how he truly was.
In other words the medal was not for him being a nice person but an innovator.
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Maybe Cook would have benefited from taking LSD like Jobs.
Although I can kind of picture Tim Cook taking LSD and being absolutely no different and continuing to talk about China, numbers, manufacturing, blah, blah, blah, completely sober.
Like others have said, I just wish he were alive to collect it. Kinda stings in a way. If Steve had ending up dying say at the end of this decade, it would still be sad, but you get a sense he would see everything come full circle especially explosion in growth and wealth of the company since 2011.
I got a iPhone 4 that was heading to ewaste recently and seeing him hold it is a reminder of it being the last product he actually worked on.
I got a iPhone 4 that was heading to ewaste recently and seeing him hold it is a reminder of it being the last product he actually worked on.
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This is an amazing award and a remarkable achievement. Steve Jobs's legacy will live on forever. I wish he was here with us today to achieve this honorary award. He's missed everyday!
Steve Jobs may deserve it, but Steve Wozniak deserves one, too, perhaps even more than Jobs. Woz single-handedly invented the personal computer as we know it. That is a much more significant accomplishment than anything Jobs has done.
I am not sure why people think he should be mr popular or friends mattered as much to him.
He was different, he thought different and made a difference.
Meanwhile Mr. Biden is sending our strategic oil reserves to China. Maybe he give himself the award.
Here's what's wrong with a lot of people that I've seen mostly on Reddit, Twitter, and comments on YouTube: Why give Steve Jobs an award I heard somewhere that he was a meanie and hE dIDnT dO aNyThInG
An actual terrible rich guy makes memes on Twitter: "lul Elon funny man"
An actual terrible rich guy makes memes on Twitter: "lul Elon funny man"
There are people who simply don't have time for people who are not on their level of thought. It's just the way it is. It's not their fault that the "common man" feels slighted or insulted by their attitude towards them or their bruised egos.
People always makes their own 'selfish' interpretations as well, all the time.
Walking around and being nice to everyone 24/7 is not productive.
We are here to fulfill our own destinies, not other people's.
I can't image the computing industry without Apple. Steve really did impact everyone's lives.
I have to say that it seems that every day there are more and more people I wouldn’t say were nice. Included in that group would be those that speak ill of the dead, though.