Comments on: Steve Jobs, Romantic http://boingboing.net/2012/09/26/steve-jobs-romantic.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 02:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: edosan77 http://boingboing.net/2012/09/26/steve-jobs-romantic.html#comment-1543174 edosan77 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=183801#comment-1543174 Remember that time Lord Byron made Wordsworth write all that poetry and then he turned around and sold it for a hefty profit? Then he lied to Wordsworth about how much money he got. Remember that time Lord Byron made Wordsworth write all that poetry and then he turned around and sold it for a hefty profit? Then he lied to Wordsworth about how much money he got.

]]> By: Daniel Earwicker http://boingboing.net/2012/09/26/steve-jobs-romantic.html#comment-1542922 Daniel Earwicker Thu, 27 Sep 2012 06:35:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=183801#comment-1542922 In Bob Cringely's interview for the 'Triumph of the Nerds' doc, he asked Jobs what was so special about Apple. Jobs came out with the same thing he was obsessed with for years: proportionally spaced fonts. Microsoft, he claimed, wouldn't have bothered with those unless Apple showed the way. Given that when the Xerox PARC team was carved up between Redmond and Cupertino, Gates nabbed Charles Simonyi, co-inventor of WYSIWYG, who would go on to oversee the creation of MS Office, the idea that only Apple knew or cared about typography is ridiculous. In Bob Cringely’s interview for the ‘Triumph of the Nerds’ doc, he asked Jobs what was so special about Apple.

Jobs came out with the same thing he was obsessed with for years: proportionally spaced fonts. Microsoft, he claimed, wouldn’t have bothered with those unless Apple showed the way.

Given that when the Xerox PARC team was carved up between Redmond and Cupertino, Gates nabbed Charles Simonyi, co-inventor of WYSIWYG, who would go on to oversee the creation of MS Office, the idea that only Apple knew or cared about typography is ridiculous.

]]> By: novium http://boingboing.net/2012/09/26/steve-jobs-romantic.html#comment-1542864 novium Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:36:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=183801#comment-1542864 If I never read another panegyric dedicated to Jobs it will be too soon. I expect deification is just around the corner. If I never read another panegyric dedicated to Jobs it will be too soon. I expect deification is just around the corner.

]]> By: grandmapucker http://boingboing.net/2012/09/26/steve-jobs-romantic.html#comment-1542480 grandmapucker Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=183801#comment-1542480 Like that time Keats made Coleridge justify what he did for the company, and fired him because the answer wasn't good enough. Like that time Keats made Coleridge justify what he did for the company, and fired him because the answer wasn’t good enough.

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