How do you think Steve Jobs will be remembered?

[byteware]

(Read all the way through before taking offense)...

If Hitler had been successful, he would have been remembered as one of the most amazing/brilliant leaders ever.

I'm NOT comparing Jobs to Hitler. I'm just saying that winning covers a lot of wrongs.

His shortcomings will be glossed over, and the majority of people will remember him as the main driving force behind tech in the 90's and early 2000's.

 

[EarlyMon]

That's a confusing point. In the hypothetical case the people left writing history would have been as whacked or would've had a gun to their heads - the idea that history is written by the victors is only true to a point and fades with the lens of time - the differentiation between reporting and history, imo. If anything, history tends to bring peccadilloes to bear against criticisms of decisions made.

I'm trying to imagine the haters ever giving up - long after Jobs and Gates are gone, the present generation of haters will continue the flames.

Betamax is not forgotten.

 

[byteware]

That's a confusing point. In the hypothetical case the people left writing history would have been as whacked or would've had a gun to their heads - the idea that history is written by the victors is only true to a point and fades with the lens of time - the differentiation between reporting and history, imo. If anything, history tends to bring peccadilloes to bear against criticisms of decisions made.

I'm trying to imagine the haters ever giving up - long after Jobs and Gates are gone, the present generation of haters will continue the flames.

Betamax is not forgotten.

But the majority of people don't understand that Betamax was a superior technology.

 

[EarlyMon]

lma0 at the three things wrong with that, because remember, two wrongs don't make a right, but three do.

Srsly - that reply was full of win!

 

[A.Nonymous]

That's a confusing point. In the hypothetical case the people left writing history would have been as whacked or would've had a gun to their heads - the idea that history is written by the victors is only true to a point and fades with the lens of time - the differentiation between reporting and history, imo. If anything, history tends to bring peccadilloes to bear against criticisms of decisions made.

I'm trying to imagine the haters ever giving up - long after Jobs and Gates are gone, the present generation of haters will continue the flames.

Betamax is not forgotten.

I think the history written by the victors thing is fading/has faded. Back when Rome sacked Carthage they destroyed virtually everything the Carthaginians had. We don't have very many reports of the wars from a Carthaginian perspective as we do from the Romans. The Romans simply destroyed them. The same thing could be said 1200 years later when conquistadores came to the New World. The writings and culture of the native peoples were, in many cases, nearly completely obliterated.

Nowadays, in the digital age, a lot of that has changed. We now have accounts from both sides of any conflict and they're all preserved for our ancestors to judge us by.