I'm sure Steve Jobs got good advice from highly qualified MDs. His entire life was devoted to doing things a bit differently than others. The fact is, he had an extremely lethal illness. Perhaps he tried a non-prescribed approach in a hopeless situation. He still lived a fairly long time, given the severity of his disease.
A friend of mine has stage 4 ovarian cancer. The surgeons did so much damage to her getting the cancer out, her quality of life is drastically diminished, and she's already decided that if the cancer recurs, she won't go under the knife again. Perhaps that was the kind of diagnosis Jobs was facing. We don't know exactly what his situaton was, so we can't hope to understand his choices.
Meh. Seemed a bit of a prick to me. He was a great salesman, I'll give him that, but the idea that he created these things is bunk.
Gotta disagree with you, Ed. He was a visionary in many ways. He saw unrealized potential in many different things (typography, ease of us, innovative form as a driver of good functionality), and was very good at harnessing people to make that potential reality. Was he laudable in every way? Hell, no. But he would make my top-ten list of giants in the founding era of computing. And consider my opinion while knowing that I have never owned an Apple product.
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