Quote:
Originally Posted by wyndslash
sorry? i wasn't trying to be spiteful or incite something. but i have heard about his health and it was an honest question...?
i'm not anti-apple. i do use their products after all. however, their recent policies are troubling and well...just a question of priorities, that's all. i am not trying to start a fight ;_;
|
I completely understood your point. but still put yourself in his shoes for just a moment. I do not like how he has run the company as I think they once had a shot to be a genuinely dominant company in the industry and really in the IBM and HP-Compaq sense of the word they are just a drop in the bucket. But he has created a winning plan whether someone likes him or not that needs to be conceded.
Still, I read your comment as intending to ask if he was not spending too much effort trying to run Apple rather than his health. Look at it this way, a person driven as Jobs NEEDS TO WORK to keep himself going. So it's likely the best thing for him to do as much as he can. I find no fault in this at all.
Now consider nobody knows if it really was Jobs pulling this trigger or not. Right now nobody knows what the official policy really is or who is really making the decisions at Apple. I know they recently released some sort of statement that Jobs was still running the show, but that was possibly only to placate the shareholders.
I had a boss once who was a kidney-pancreas transplant patient. He was back to work two weeks after the transplants. Why? Because getting people as active as possible is found to be one of the best treatments helping such patients survive longer. I see the same thing for Jobs and I hope nobody ever questions his desire to do a good job. We all might see it differently but his motives are all in an effort to succeed and in many cases prove people wrong. Nothing wrong with that....
But I have to agree it's not right to question him in how he chooses to live his life. My only interest is the business decisions and how they could affect my use of the products.