@manton I actually wrote an email to Tim Cook about it. He can do what he likes, but I hope it burns his conscience for eternity.
@manton Somehow I can't imagine he'd go in his own pockets, pull out a million and ask Trump if that is enough.
@manton Steve Jobs lived in a different time, and faced different challenges, so it's hard to say what he would do in today's environment. He did do many things that were unpopular with developers (like shutting down projects like OpenDoc), and he did things that were unthinkable but practical, like striking a deal with Microsoft to keep the company afloat, and... oh yes, he did name Tim Cook as his successor, and famously recommended that he never ask himself what Steve would have done.
@hbowie That's all true. To be honest I'm still a little bitter about losing OpenDoc. 🙂 I don't know what Steve would do today, but I like to imagine it.
@manton That's why Jobs is a heroic figure, because he's still inspiring us today. And no doubt still inspires Tim Cook, who is having to navigate a world that Jobs couldn't have imagined existing.
@manton Steve Jobs is gone; but what you, as the CEO of the micro.blog community, do is important to me.
@manton We honestly have no way to know, since we as a country never put him in the position we’ve now put Tim in. If I ventured a guess, I’d say the mature Steve that saved Apple would protect its people and its business, even if it cost him personally.
@jmwolf I agree we don’t know. Steve would also be a different person now than he was in that photo.
@manton In his last days Jobs was very much an entertainment industry type, very skeptical of the creativity of individuals and respecting the corporate process of creativity. It's possible his illness made him like that, I heard an interview he did with Walt Mossberg where he positively sounded like Mr. Burns from the Simpsons. If that was the "real" Jobs, by now he might be Trump. His platform was already way bigger than anything when he passed away, would there have even been a Twitter or Facebook if Jobs had lived? But I don't think he was really ever like the characters in the The Crazy Ones commercial, which was a fantastic commercial, but it wasn't Apple, then and certainly not now, not even remote. It was really good marketing though. ;-)