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If you have not yet already read JL's interview of Wozniak in Founders at Work, the Floppy drive story is priceless.

http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html

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Also great retelling by Andy Hertzfeld on the 3.5" Sony floppy disk drive:

"Quick, Hide In This Closet!"

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

You don't hear too many stories like this about Steve:

"Steve swallowed his pride and thanked them for disobeying him and doing the right thing."

Actually you do. There are many cases of Steve realizing he was wrong and changing his position. In his Eulogy Jonny Ive talked about it as one of his best known features.

But this doesn't fit the "steve jobs is a tyrannical asshole and apple's success is only a fluke of marketing and apple is evil" narrative that is so popular among google worshipers.

Who mentioned Google? Stop making technology companies your sports teams.

That person was arguing against the simplistic story lines that are created when we treat tech companies like sports teams. It came off some what badly but I believe it was correct. There are tons of stories of steve jobs swallowing his pride and admitting he was wrong but they are not spread as widely because they don't fit the public perception of him.

I actually found this more interesting than the original article

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