something Ron Insana said on The Last Word (media people are so out of touch)

[Syrinx]

Lawrence was talking with Ron Insana about Steve Jobs. About how Jobs started Apple (no mention of Wozniak), not for love of money, but for love of the technology.

Ron Insana said that Steve Jobs wasn't trying to became a billionaire. He said that back then even becoming a millionaire seemed out of reach for most people.

Am I wrong, or does that show an amazing detachment from reality for our "media elites?"

[Occupied1]

1. Wozniak says Jobs' goal was to run a company. Wozniak was about the technology, Jobs was about the

game & the power & likely the money too, though no one will say so.

Q. You said during your talk that you and Steve are very different people. Do you think that helped or hurt in those early days?

A. Helped us extremely. I had the incredible technology, which was important when you're starting up and have very few employees. Steve had this big drive to have a company and he had a foresight. I just wanted to build the best computer possible and he sort of wanted to build a company that would be selling computers forever.

Q. Are you still close friends?

A. Not close friends. Even when Apple really got started we weren't close friends because he had a different motivation in the company, which was to run a company, and mine was just to be a top engineer that did clever, clever projects. So we almost never saw each other in the company.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002929498_wozqa14.html

You know the media heads are going to slobber all over the corpse, why bother repeating their bunk

[DCKit]

2. Can't speak ill of the dead... it's too soon.

The pope is probably writing a tweet for beatification at this very moment.

[Occupied1]

3. no doubt, no doubt. the captains of industry are saints to a man.

[dogknob]

4. He didn't realize this while he was upgrading his iTunes...

... but now Steve Jobs is obligated to provide Apple with guidance from the afterlife; Apple's headquarters in Cupertino has a summoning chamber to contact Jobs in The Cloud and ask him questions between 9am-5pm PST on weekdays.

[Syrinx]

6. post wasn't about Steve Jobs

[Syrinx]

5. my post wasn't really about Steve Jobs at all

It was about the media elites thinking most people are as affluent as they are. These multi-millionaires see themselves as "average Americans."