Is Steve Jobs A Creative Genius, Or A Tyrant?
Steve Jobs always directed where the "performance" of Apple must go in, helping the company and everyone else move in the best possible direction. His meticulous care for details and consumer products lead to revolutionary products like the Macintosh, the iPod, iPhone, and the iPad. Although these products were not new relative to what was available on the market, they were groundbreaking in terms of customer satisfaction and ease of use. It was Steve himself who once said, "How do people know what they want if they haven't even seen it yet?". His uncanny ability to invent revolutionary products, mixed with his attention to detail, is what gave way to the millions of die-hard Apple fans you see today. When it came to retail Steve wanted to create the best buying experience possible for Apple products, even if it meant going against the status quo of retail shopping. Today Apple stores are known as a place for everyone, welcoming to all ages, and where people could feel like they truly belong. The true success behind Apple's retail stores lies beyond their simple, modern design but in fact within the people who run these stores. People just love interacting face-to-face with the Apple retail employees who are trained extensively in order to fully satisfy the customer's questions. As for the author's final statements (Apple's reluctancy against certain software like Adobe and denying people the ability to change their battery), Apple has always been known for it's high level of security which would only be accomplished if both their hardware and software were controlled and closed off from anyone. Closing off the device prevents people from planting malicious chips in Apple devices and selling them to people and denying Adobe support for competitive reasons provides an equal playing ground for the developers already creating software for Apple products.
The author does not fail in presenting logical perspectives along with every point mentioned in the blog. Steve Jobs' acute attention to detail made him, at times, seem very controlling and somewhat dictatorial in order to make a product reach the level of excellence he would have in mind. Also, because Steve Jobs was a business man, he would create a certain social status behind every product which started getting people to wait hours outside of Apple retail stores to buy any newly released product (even though Best Buy would be selling the same product for the exact same price). As for the retail store statements themselves, the author presents a logical point when talking about how the Apple store employees hope to land a corporate job by impressing in the retail section, and how the likelihood of that happening would be slim to none. Although denying Adobe did prove beneficial for other developers, the author has a point that doing so also seemed illogical since it was widely used by millions of Americans and created somewhat of an inconvenience. Finally, I agree with the point the author makes when talking about how Apple denies people access to changing their iDevice's battery, which would force people to resort to buying a newer version of the product in order to continue consuming a product they've grown used to.
-Work cited:
"Is Steve Jobs A Creative Genius, Or A Tyrant?" Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 8 Sept. 2011. Web. 20 Oct. 2015.
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