[reillys]

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[UberFly]

He was a true accomplished trailblazer with a compelling corporate and personal story, and didn't mind hurting feelings along the way. History is built on these people like it or not.

[reillys]

He was sometimes successful.

He had tons of failure and failed in the worst possible ways blaming everyone all around him and not taking any responsibility and then he got a chance to rebound and was finally successful. It's complete scoreboard journalism, if for whatever reason at the end apple didn't succeed we'd just put him in the POS column. But instead cause he made some of that sweet green (at the end) we say he's amazing. That is what I don't get.

[xanderlewis]

Because under him, Apple made beautiful products. And set the standard for everything that came next.

That he was (probably) a bit of a dick isn’t enough to change that fact.

[cookie_monsta]

Nothing changes a fact. That's what makes them facts. If you are still undecided about whether Jobs was a POS in his personal life after everything we already know, your lack of objectivity makes your opinion weigh very little in the debate about if his professional accomplishments somehow mitigate that.