“About a week after Jobs’ death, the promotional tour for ‘Steve Jobs,’ the Walter Isaacson biography, began in ernest [sic]. This week, the book itself hit,” Mike Elgan writes for Cult of Mac. ” And so did the ‘dark side’ revelations. Plus, former rivals and Apple employees with an axe to grind came pouring out of the woodwork to tell snarky stories about Jobs’ flawed morality, bizarre personality and petty misconduct.”

“As they are wont to do, the lame-stream media pounced on the negative angle,” Elgan writes. “The praise was too much. But so is the ongoing character assassination. It’s time to bring the pendulum back to the center, and provide context for some of the most egregious dissing. In particular, there are four major falsehoods about Jobs being thrown around in the past three weeks that need to be addressed.”

Four major falsehoods about Steve Jobs:
1. Steve Jobs stole ideas from Xerox to create the Mac.
2. Steve Jobs was mean, petulant, brittle, abrasive and cantankerous.
3. Steve Jobs intended to spend all of Apple’s money to destroy Android.
4. Steve Jobs was evil.

Full article – highly recommended – here.

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