And by good at one thing you mean exploiting people and gaslighting the media.

I used to work as a court clerk and judges are like this. You cannot tell them anything because if they get it into their heads that they know better than you then they will completely ignore reality in favor of their own, largely arbitrary, fictional universe.

The best incentive ever not to commit a crime is to find out how utterly dysfunctional the legal system is.

Doctors failed to communicate the situation in a way he would grasp that his choices were death or chemo. Maybe a, "that's your choice? OK, before you go, how world you like us to handle your corpse? So you want a full autopsy to confirm the cancer diagnosis, or would you prefer we didn't? Is there a particular burial home you have plans with? "

But in all likelihood there's nothing anyone could have said to him to make him see reason.

Yknow, while I 90% agree with you there seems to be some element between the technical genius (Wozniak) and the idiot businessman that is Tim Apple.

Jobs may have been a piece of shit but there’s something to be said for the uncompromising non-technical focus on UX that allowed Jobs to make the iPhone a success.

Sure Wozniak invented the Apple I and II. But if he never met Jobs his inventions would have stayed a hobby and Apple would have never existed. Woz also didn’t push for an OS with a GUI (which was revolutionary back then) that was Jobs’ idea. Not to mention that Woz had nothing to do with Apple’s comeback. He has been an honorary employee since Jobs was fired. Woz is a genius but people give him way too much credit just like they do with Jobs.

Not to mention the actual pioneer of generic-text languages, the inventor of the compiler, Grace Hopper.

https://www.biography.com/scientist/grace-hopper

well one is good at selling stuff including himself

My crusading teenage ass posted this in 2011 on social media. Nobody cared lol

Jesus Christ. That is fucking poetry.

I remember reading a story a while back about the documentary they were making on him. He had his special diet of juices and supplements and whatnot, which he claimed helped him while his liver was failing. The actor who portrayed him started following the same diet to better get in character. Only then he collapsed on set with liver problems. They did a full medical work up and basically told him whatever you're doing stop doing it because it's killing you. He went back to his normal diet and he was fine. Raising the serious question, did Steve Jobs outsmart himself to death? If he had given up all the diets and supplements and whatnot might he have lived?

People mistaking Marketing people for tech genies happens to often.

The behind the bastards episodes on Jobs was really eye-opening to just how awful of a leader he was

Money is like radioactive material. Having a little bit in your house probably is fine but having a mountain of it will make you hole up in a Las Vegas hotel with tissue boxes for shoes

He died as he lived, trying to beat PC with Apple.

Couldn't be worse than Muskrat.

Wifi might become obsolete some time in the future, but apple pie is eternal.

"one of", not "the"? Now I'm wondering what could someone like him regret more than the choice that literally killed him?

The sales people almost always end up doing well in companies. And then when they get high up in the company they only value others ability to make sales and work for bonuses. As time goes on a company's e-suite gets more and more saturated with charismatic dummies who will do anything for a buck, leaving less room for good administrators and engineers.