Comments on: Violet Blue: Steve Jobs snubbed me

At Macworld, the popular technology and sex columnist says she tried to get Apple's CEO to pose for a picture, only to be told, effectively, to go away.

[jscott418]

Does not surprise me

Just look at how secretive and possessive Apple is about its
hardware and software. Steve basically says to developers, do it
my way or else no way. Steve Jobs is Apple. Rightly so I guess.
But everything about Steve in public is really a show. He accepts
nothing but perfection from himself and I am sure this has to
echo through Apple employees and contracted manufacturing
facility. With a company with 5% market share. He is much more visible then say Michael Dell who has 30% of the market. I have
yet to see a Dell World Expo.

[Lee in San Diego]

It surprises the hell out me

If it ever happened and I suspect that it is a hoax. Steve Jobs
walks the floor at MacWorld Expo and the only photo of him was
taken from behind, face not shown. Any other bloggers
reporting seeing him there, any other photos of him? As far as I
can tell this story broke on the Fake Steve Jobs blog feed://fakesteve.blogspot.com

Other posters here have mentioned how gracious Steve Jobs was
when they met him.

[rapier1]

What I like

Is that if you ever want to say anything about Apple, Jobs, Macs, iPods, or whatever you *must*, you *have* to, prove your cred by saying how many Apple products you own. Even then it usually not enough and you'll still get blasted as being unworthy.

And for the record, I own a 12" PB and a mac mini.

[i,Jimbot]

You are right

You are absolutely right that you don't know the context. You don't
know if he was in a phone conversation, emailing someone, texting
someone, looking something up. Just because you want to talk to
him does not mean that you are entitled to it. So get over it.

[Lee in San Diego]

I really suspect a hoax

I just talked to my friend who has an exhibit at MacWorld Expo.
She said she did not see, nor hear of, Steve Jobs in the exhibit
halls. She that does not mean that this didn't happen because
her booth is in the cheap seats and she was there most of the
day. However, if he was really walking around then other
exhibiters would be talking about it, photos of him at their
booth and all of that.

As I said before, this story is also on the Fake Steve Jobs blog.
Draw your own conclusions.

[precogpunk]

Macbook Airhead

... That's what Violet Blue is: an airhead. She comes off looking like a punk rocker but cries like a baby when someone tells her to **** off. The world is cruel so get used to it.

[scweezil]

The National Enquirer

Oh no that's it...sell your stock. This is what happens when tech journalists have the brain of a 12 year old...maybe you guys at
Cnet should start tailing Britney Spears. Too Funny.

[A_N_Onymous]

or..

he knows exactly who she is.

[billmosby]

Don't be a drain...

A lot of celebrities are celebrated because of accomplishments
which required a lifetime of devotion to create. They don't owe
us anything beyond what they have already provided. It's a
curious pathology a lot of us have- we see or hear about certain
people every day and just reflexively assume that since they are
familiar to us, we are in some sense familiar to them. But we're
really just random strangers to them. For best results, remember
that. I suspect that all the times people have treated celebrities
with inappropriate familiarity would lead a lot of them to keep a
shield up and be rude, even to someone they might know,
especially if they were in the middle of something and didn't like
being interrupted.

[personpersonman]

Stopped everything after to recognize Doug Engelbart after keynote

I was deeply move after Tuesday's Keynote presentation, when after the talk when the world's press was hounding Jobs, that he stopped for two minutes to talk to Doug Engelbart (the inventor of the mouse, hypertext, icons, first Internet message). Jobs said to everyone, "This is the man who started it all." about the man you inspired many to change the world. See "Mother of All Demos (1968)". If your as busy as Steve was maybe you need a little down time every once in a while.

[Violet Pink]

What would Larry Ellison do?

What would Larry Ellison do?

[pmarshall]

WWLED ?

Debatable. Either he would have been extremely pleased and autographed her breasts, or he would have had his security stomp her (depending on the mood of the moment). Larry and Steve have had an ego/rudeness contest going for years. They are very good friends.

[lilmikesf]

stop griping & get a grip...

This is a newsworthy story to you dweebs?

please give me a break you losers!

let's review: busy billionaire checking his messages is interrupted by some peon he doesn't know...

& curtly refuses to play with them...


details at 11!

what art of "who the f+ck are you?" do you not understand?

do I now have to talk to every panhandler & scientologist in front of the subway stations?

didn't yer mama ever tell you not to talk to strangers?

what the hell do you mean he shouldn't attend his own convention?

you joined his cult & bought his products & now he has to be nice to you as well?

get a grip...


all of ye!!

[teknozen]

violet blue is a shameless star-fucker

1st of all if it took whoever wrote this story until 4 years ago to
ditch windows, well, lets just say this person is not the sharpest
pencil in the jar.

2nd, violet blue is a notorious star-******, much more
interested in her self promotion than any other topic on earth,
and attempting to hijack steve jobs for a foto only demonstrates
the shameless gall this woman has.

Was she really under the delusion she might have anything to
say that jobs might find remotely interesting? and it IS presumptuous as hell (and yes, extraordinarily rude) to walk up
to ANYBODY you don't know and request a foto (unless perhaps
that person is a politician working a pre-caucus crowd in say las
vegas).

meanwhile that cow with the ludicrous post-warhol moniker
(how 80s! how tired!) is lucky jobs didn't simply have her tossed
out immediately for stalking or harassment or whatever.

[partytildawn-20159620461052270]

Apple Can Once Again Do No Wrong

I am laughing. I am not laughing at the article. I am laughing at the replies. I'll never get over the assertion by Apple fans that Apple and its execs can do no wrong... ever. It reminds me of all the fundamentalist evangelicals who believe that George W. Bush is anointed by God and can do no wrong. It must be nice living in the Apple subdivision in the city of Pleasantville.

[Lee in San Diego]

The bigger joke

The bigger joke is the Apple SlamBoys who are assuming that this
story is true just because it is negative towards. You are the other
side of the Apple FanBoy coin.

Time to stop partying your life away and grow up.

[fred dunn]

Jobs is an arrogant, egocentric snob

Everybody Knows that. Is this news?

But as everyone else he gets older too so some day he'll wonder why he has nothing but "yes men" around him and no true friends and will eventually die a lonely old snob with no one mourning about it.

Karma, Yen and yang, when you are in deep personal issues money means nothing. How you have treated others along the way means everything.

[Jess Whittemore]

Your not worthy!

No, really.

[mycatspice]

Obviously she WAS being rude

Is this the ONLY thing that anyone say against Steve Jobs? He didn't want to be interupted by a popular tech and sex columnist?

Oh brother ...

[shrippyshram]

Nice reading skills...

She plainly said that she didn't introduce herself. If that is the case, then Steve either 1) recognized her (would you?) or 2) didn't care who she was. In either event, he was a jerk. What, it's okay to belittle a Mac fan at Macworld if that fan is "unseemly," like a "tech/sex blogger" for a major national newspaper? Ah! I see! There is a CLASS SYSTEM to being a Mac fan. Maybe, had she been more "appropriate" a Mac fan, he would have deigned to have a conversation?

Not likely, Little Red Riding Hood.

Oh, and it's not the "only" thing we can say against him. He's also a bombastic gasbag. How many "industry firsts" and "world's firsts" that WEREN'T did he announce this week? I'll give you a hint: all of them.

[Sniche]

A Lot of Anti Mac Anti Jobs Comments

Was this at the Keynote to learn about Macs or for the benefit of a
offset wild Blog, also fueled by another c/net Blogger. This then
fuels Anti-Mac Anti-Jobs sentiment, with 50 replies it obviously
worked. I didn't think there would be so much jealousy and hate
for success in this world. God bless you all!

[Lee in San Diego]

Especially when

There is no confirmation that this really happened and that it isn't a
hoax. Check the other Mac blogs, other than the FAKE STEVE JOBS
blog I haven't see the story, if anyone has then provide the links.

I haven't seen the story anywhere on non Mac blogs except Violet
Blue's and c|net.

I am pretty sure that this story is a hoax.

[Dr_b_]

Actually he was being polite, what he meant to say was...

He meant to say you are not the best looking individual in the world, and sugar coated it by saying that you were being rude.

[zunipus]

Creating Versus Being The Spirit Of The Age

We are suffering in the age of Andy Warhol made real. Every kid
is so utterly bereft of perspective on reality in the rest of the
world that they want to be famous for their 15 minutes, or
whatever moronic comment Warhol made way back in the
1960s. Even the the most dangerous dimwit of the computer
industry, Bill Gates, has noticed that no one wants to be an
engineer any more. Being a doctor takes work, being a nurse is
too much work, being a scientist doesn't pay enough bucks. So
all the kids want to either entertain or be entertained while
reality passes them by and they end up as useless drones
flipping burgers or providing horrifyingly bad phone customer
support to the point where you'd rather be talking to someone
in India.

So imagine you're Steve Jobs. You have a brain. You use it. You
notice how inane it is to be part of the current Spirit Of The Age.
You have the wits to create your own new Spirit Of The Age via
technology, that difficult thing the kids cringe about until they
get their hands on the results that Steve jobs and his band of
fellow witty people at Apple provide. A new Spirit Of The Age is
born. Gotta have an iPod! Gotta have a Mac! Gotta have an Apple
TV (well, maybe).

So here we have this scary, plastic looking sex fetishist who
definitely looks the part walking up to Steve Jobs, who lives in a
totally contrary perspective and asking to have her picture taken
with him. Yuck. Why would Steve Jobs have the slightest interest
in playing Britney Spears games with his fans. Why would he
want to garner a reputation for courting attention when he
knows perfectly well he's got far more important things to do
with his time. Leave Andy Warhol Fantasy Land to the dopey kids
who believe in it. Violet Blue is yet another dopey kid for
blaming Steve jobs for wanting to get some work done instead.

Sorry Warhol kiddies. No one owes their fans attention. Fame
does not ever equal giving up your personal life. The only reason
that ever happens is when famous people LET it happen. We all
make our choices in life. I applaud Steve Jobs for simply
choosing to stay out of Warhol Fantasy Land.

:-Derek

[RobertSOakes]

Wow, you are a dick

Wow, your response has got to be the biggest bag of ******** I have ever heard (and that is really saying something). Steve Jobs' actions and your defense of it reveal you to be a git at best interpretation. As though intelligence/creativity ever empowered someone to be an ass.

What is so sad, though, is that while relatively intelligent, Steve is no creative genius. Steve Jobs is indeed very good at understanding the direction and flow of the populat mind, but to my knowledge he has NEVER been considered the creative force which comes up with Apple's innovation. Quite the opposite, actually, he is the cold and calculating son of a ***** who provides restraint and direction so that whatever comes out is actually usuable. Go read any Steve biography, they all emphasize one important bit: Steve adopts the best tastes and mannerisms of those around him. He doesn't actually create anything. In the case Apple's early days, Woz provided the creativity, Steve the discipline. I doubt very much that anything really substantive has changed.

This is not necessarily a bad thing. Every good product manager needs to have this side when dealing with engineers who are creating a product. What is Bill Gates' single greatest flaw? He apparently lacks this cold ability to decide and understand the tastes of the masses. On the flip side, he is a very good engineer. Steve is not, as shown by some of his very worst design decisions (single button mouse anyone?).

It has nothing to do with embodying the Spirit of the Age or Creating. The most creative, innovative and successful people I know are also the most ingratiating, kindest, and most willing to spend a few minutes doing trivial things (e.g. letting a photo be taken of themselves). Want to change and embody something other than Warhol Fantasy Land? Let's get back to simple courtesy and respect.

I have no doubt that Violet Blue is perhaps obnoxious and that her appearance is off puting, but that still entitles no one to be an ass.

[iBuzz]

The ups and downs of Steve Jobs

I remember being at a conference many years ago where Steve
Jobs was at Next Computer (before he came back to Apple). We
was there to promote a technology called WebObjects that most
people weren't interested in at the time. I remember him
walking around the conference with a small posse who were all
wearing Pixar jackets. No one paid him much attention except
for a few who were interested in Pixar.

Back then he was the outcast of Apple and of the industry,
peddling technology that no one found relevant. I can see how
an experience like that could give someone an attitude. LOL

[delf76]

This is a surprise to who?

So, Steve can be a bit of a jerk? How is this a surprise to anyone?

And why should Steve care? Steve is steve... he will always be like this. Will it change the way he treats people or the way he runs Apple? I think not...

He's just a unique individual.