Showing posts with label Megalomania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Megalomania. Show all posts

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Steve Jobs, Inventor of Everything


Cory Doctorow has the story of Steve Jobs deciding to put himself into a Disney ride.

Disney is renovating the Spaceship Earth ride at Epcot Center and will include Steve Jobs (but not Steve Wozniak) in its animatronic depiction of the history of communications -- but not Steve Wozniak, the pioneering hardware virtuoso who created the early Apple computers. --boingboing.net

What a jackass. I will never get the image out of my head of this megalomaniac parading across the stage screaming about the iPhone. "Its a phone, Its music player, are you getting it? are you getting it?". Yes you dunce, because we aren't ninnies and personally I've had a phone that played downloaded music in Japan for 3 years.

Its just one of the benefits of being on the board at Disney, you can write people out of history.
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