“Don Melton has a long history with Steve Jobs and Apple, working at NeXT and then moving to Apple where he is known for his work on Safari and WebKit,” Kelly Hodgkins reports for MacRumors. “Melton recounted his memorable encounters with Jobs in a post he recently published on his blog.”
“Melton was not a confidant of Jobs, just an employee who had the opportunity to be around the Apple co-founder on occasion. Jobs likely thought of Melton as the “Safari Guy” and knew Melton’s real name, which was considered an honor,” Hodgkins reports. “Melton recounts the first time he met Steve Jobs at a NeXT presentation in the late 80s that unfortunately was scheduled during everyone’s lunch break. Like many encounters with Jobs, Melton remembered Jobs’ demeanor, but not a word of what he said.”
Hodgkins reports, “Melton paints Jobs not as a ‘mercurial ogre or cartoon autocrat,’ but as a very busy CEO with little time for “yes men,” timid employees or those who didn’t know what they were doing”
Read more in the full article here.
Melton’s full article, “Memories of Steve,” here.