counting the board members rooting for professional software.

[Aindreas Gallagher]

sure – but you know what I mean. OK he went to buy a big boat in the end but he had plenty of weird contradictions. He went on a dollar salary for quite a few years after returning to apple, but when the board convinced him to accept compensation he demanded a staggering amount of money and it became incredibly awkward for everyone involved.

He respected the merc as a machine no more than the pianos he hung, and he liked the ride, also he was a near billionaire quite soon after college so…

also he lived for a long time in a house that had a lamp and a chair and absolutely nothing else. he was sure he liked the lamp and the chair, but he hadn’t decided on anything else. The woman who designed all the icons for the mac went there and comforted him when he rang her out of the blue – i think after the death of one of his adoptive parents –

also he lived on oranges (or was it carrots?) for a period of months in his early twenties until his organs started to malfunction, pre-apple he would go for months without washing for a time when he was still kicking around, he named the lisa after a daughter he refused to legally recognise for decades – and he screwed many people he knew very intimately out of any compensation when apple went supernova – wozniak had to step in personally to make it right out of his own money – kottke is the worst example.

So sure he really really wasn’t the nicest person on earth – but –

I truly don’t think he was on any level the man for solid gold baubles in his stores with cartier style wrist straps. I think he would have thrown the board all out of the room screaming profanities for that notion. Surely the thing is that while it lived in his second incarnation Apple was effectively Job’s id. Or he was its id.

The death can be over argued, but the manner of apple: the taste, the personality – the paranoia, the mania for details, the vindictiveness, the sometimes iphone level jaw dropping globally altering results – that’s basically all him one way or another.

And that gold watch works as proof of his death, because it’s definitely not him.

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