About All That Fawning....

It was bizarre seeing how much praise the liberal blogosphere heaped on Steve Jobs amidst his sudden death last week. Seeing this from the Huffington Post shows further more how his personality was something I never warmed too.

"You're headed for a one-term presidency," he told Obama at the start of their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared to the United States, where "regulations and unnecessary costs" make it difficult for them.

What "business" was Jobs talking about?

This administration has time in and time again (even with its persistence to take original Republican ideas of tax credits/cuts to show rational people that, hey, they seem to put in original Republican holidays) show how business friendly it actually has been (small business and not coming close to fully holding Wall Street accountable despite "Ohhh, stern scary rhetoric!)

And I guess Jobs' desired more deregulation to get away with even more questionable labor conditions and practices of workers than what is going on in China.

But that already irritating aspect of Jobs' ego causing him to get something wrong again is only second fiddle to these tidbits:

Jobs suggested that Obama meet six or seven other CEOs who could express the needs of innovative businesses -- but when White House aides added more names to the list, Jobs insisted that it was growing too big and that "he had no intention of coming." In preparation for the dinner, Jobs exhibited his notorious attention to detail, telling venture capitalist John Doerr that the menu of shrimp, cod and lentil salad was "far too fancy" and objecting to a chocolate truffle dessert. But he was overruled by the White House, which cited the president's fondness for cream pie.

He sure was a very humble guy, that Stevey Jobs.

Steve Wozniak will always be the one I hold found for the original days of Apple, even if he never desired to be the marketing and showman force that Jobs was.

A lot of people really were ticked off with Jobs' arrogance and really disgraceful way he treated others (let's not even get into the China manufacturing).

It's a shame that he is gone, but it's also a shame that most still don't know how difficult he was of a person to deal with.