The Legendary Steve Jobs is half ARAB

[General Duke]

 

 

Jobs was born in San Francisco[1] and was adopted by Paul and Clara (née Hagopian) Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California who named him Steven Paul. Paul and Clara also had a daughter, Patty. His biological parents, Joanne Carole Schieble and

Abdulfattah Jandali

[7] — a graduate student from Syria who became a political science professor[7] — later married and gave birth to Jobs' sister, the novelist Mona Simpson.

 

Never knew that.

[Che -Guevara]

And?

 

Don't tell me 1/8 Puntlander

[General Duke]

^^^Your inferiority complex comes out every time.

I did a few case studies on business leaders at Uni, and Jobs was always my favorite. The latest rumors and stories about his health made look at his profile and I was surprised his father was Syrian.

[Che -Guevara]

^On different note, why is vocabulary inundated with words, great, legendary, best,etc?

[General Duke]

^^^

I don’t know what you mean mate, those words are used appropriately for example one would describe, Mohamed Abdi Yusuf as hapless, gullible and weak. Never legendary, best or amazing, it’s all about the suitability of the words themselves and what they are meant to convey.

[Khayr]

Originally posted by Che -Guevara:

And?

 

Don't tell me 1/8 Puntlander

timing...its all about the timing of the punchline. Duke, wa luugo siirey!

[General Duke]

^^^Yeah right, Che needs as much help as he can get saxib.

[MAXIMUS POWERS]

Duke,

 

Your irrelevance on this forum is becoming more evident by the day. First you chose a bunch of failed leaders as heroes then couldn't defend your case. No you tell us that Steve jobs is arab! - This is not the kind of knowledge i joined this forum to learn. Stay in the politics section and continue to be a propagandist for the Puntland government. btw, JB is winning the most post race, if you think your going to beat him by posting that steve Jobs is a hasidic arab! think again adeer!

 

This is just pathetic.

[Khayr]

JB is winning the most post race, if you think your going to beat him by posting that steve Jobs is a hasidic arab! think again adeer!

Marx, stoppppp

 

You gonna make me piss my pants at work!

[STOIC]

Marx,

 

Fadhuul badhanithaa (SP?)...don't be a debbie downer of the site...let people breath and if you are seeking a REAL knowledge then go to a shiit-hole called a LIBERERI (library) and devour all the knowledge you want to seek

[Faarax-Brawn]

Originally posted by Che -Guevara:

And?

 

Don't tell me 1/8 Puntlander

Haha, Waa u duugtay wallahi.

 

Dukes..good to know i guess. Interesting Trivia if you are into tribal lineage and other related stuff.

[General Duke]

MARX, Farah & Khayr.. I must say that I found all your comments amusing specially, the young man who used up a great deal of energy spewing venom on what he termed as an irrelevant tid bit beneath his knowledge seeking self. That was funny as hell.

 

Now Farah the BROWN my man, any pro Al Shabaab demo’s planned and fund rasing activities from your ends? You know the Amxaro are back and Sharif Amxaar called them into the holly land ? Or is he your clan.

[NASSIR]

He is the Obama of Apple. Interesting to know that his father was an emigre from Syria.

[General Duke]

Nassir, below is the piece that I read earlier this morning on Mr Jobs, which jolted me to read his profile and then I came across that his father was Syrian and was in fact adopted.

It was interesting to note, somewhat.

[General Duke]

 

What's driving Steve Jobs?Over the weekend it transpired that the boss of Apple has had a liver transplant. Cue sharp intake of breath among geeks everywhere. At last a reason for his weight loss and the mystery break from work. But now he's coming back. Will he ever give up? By

Ed Pilkington

 

The Guardian, Tuesday 23 June 2009

Article history

 

Apple CEO Steve Jobs pauses as he delivers the keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Web Developers Conference June 9, 2008 in San Francisco, California. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

 

When Steve Jobs rolled out the Apple Macintosh computer in January 1984 he did so, true to form, by commissioning one of the most memorable TV adverts ever created. It bore several classic Jobs hallmarks. It was cool. It was darkly funny. And it seemed to portray a mindless conformity in Jobs's supreme rival, Bill Gates of Microsoft.

 

Modelled on the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, it showed row upon row of grey-suited, grey-faced male automatons (for which read PC users) sitting in front of a huge screen upon which Big Brother pontificates. A blonde woman in white and red running gear - Ms Apple by implication - hurtles towards him and hurls a mallet at the screen, which erupts into a fireball just as Big Brother is saying, "We shall prevail!"

 

Close observers of the ever more mysterious world of Steve Jobs will have remembered that advert this weekend with a wry chuckle. For, in the last few days, the behaviour of Apple's chief executive and his top team has become increasingly erratic, bordering on bizarre, with definite shades of Big Brother.

 

Over the weekend we learned that Jobs had had a liver transplant two months ago. You could almost hear the sharp intake of breath among geeks everywhere, particularly in the west-coast techno-Mecca of Silicon Valley. At last there was an explanation for his gaunt appearance and evident weight loss, for his disappearances and for this year's six-month break from work.

 

But consider the manner in which the news came out. It broke late on Friday night - that witching hour beloved of buriers of bad news - at the end of a day that had also seen Apple launch its latest iPhone. The Wall Street Journal had the exclusive and, unusually for them, ascribed it to no source at all, provoking a mass of blogger speculation that the source could only have been Jobs himself. All that Apple would say on the subject was to repeat parrot-like the phrase that "Steve continues to look forward to returning at the end of June". Big Brother would have been proud.

 

The news of the liver transplant was just the latest of a series of events that saw Jobs and Apple dig themselves deeper and deeper into a pit of secrecy surrounding his health. The first the world knew about his problems was in August 2004, when it was announced he had been treated for a rare form of pancreatic cancer.

 

Later it dribbled out that in fact the diagnosis had been made months earlier, in October 2003, and that he had tried initially to beat it with a peculiar dietary treatment (we're talking about a Buddhist vegetarian approach here).

 

Earlier this year came the baffling claim that he had a relatively simply treated "hormone imbalance", followed just days later by the announcement that Jobs would be stepping down for six months to focus on his health.

 

The relative news blackout over almost five years has prompted desperate attempts by Jobs's devoted band of followers to reach the truth. Bloggers have tried to confirm that April's liver transplant took place in Memphis, Tennessee, by tracking the movements of Jobs's private plane. They have also pored over records of property transactions near the Memphis hospital that specialises in such treatments, to identify the mansion house they believe he bought while preparing for and recovering from the operation.

 

Why go to such extraordinary lengths to find out information that Jobs clearly prefers to keep private? Why does his health matter so much to anyone other than himself and his close family and friends?

 

Here's a clue to the answer to those questions: Apple share prices. When Jobs took over the company for the second time in 1996 its stock was trading at about $4 a share; now it approaches $140.

 

Or look at more micro movements. When his six-month break was announced in January, share values plummeted to as low as $78.20. Even unfounded rumours about his health can move the markets: last December, Apple stock went up simply on unconfirmed reports that Jobs had been spotted looking well at his favourite frozen yoghurt outlet in Palo Alto. On another occasion, an inaccurate blog report that he had suffered a heart attack depressed shares by more than 5%.

 

Such figures, impressive though they are, are mere symptoms of the peculiar power of Steve Jobs; they do not provide a diagnosis. For that one has to look back into the cluttered garage of Jobs's family home in California where, in 1976, aged just 21, he joined forces with Steve Wozniak to create their first personal computer. They built 25 of the first Apple I prototype, with the help of an order from a local company, and within just four years had exploded from a garage industry into a major international technology giant.

 

Millions of words and a library full of books have been dedicated to trying to understand how Jobs did it. But two characteristics stand out beyond all others. First, Jobs is a man who does not suffer from self-doubt: everything he does is imbued with absolute self-confidence.

 

Second, he is obsessive about Apple and its products, which he engages with at a level of detail virtually unheard of among his fellow CEOs. Rob Enderle, a technology analyst who has been covering Apple for more than two decades, says that Jobs has "redesigned Apple around him. In any product, he's involved from its first design stage to its final presentation."

 

That attention to detail, Enderle says, includes coal-face negotiations with phone carriers and suppliers in which Jobs uses his legendary temper to scare other companies into submission. Enderle tells the story of one firm that supplied a faulty computer chip to Apple. Though the fault was Apple's own, Jobs apparently insisted the supplier rebuilt the chip in an impossible 60 days, threatening never to work with them again if the deadline was missed.

 

"That's the kind of thing that scares people to death. They know that if you let him down you can lose your contract, your job or even your company," Enderle says.

 

Jobs has a similar nerve-jangling reputation among Apple's 35,000 employees. Workers at the company's Cupertino headquarters have a phrase - "being Steved", meaning to be at the receiving end of his wrath. "He uses fear more effectively than any CEO I've ever seen," Enderle says.

 

Leander Kahney runs an Apple analysis website, Cultofmac.com, and is author of Inside Steve's Brain, which seeks to understand his creative genius. He believes that since Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, having resigned from his own creation 11 years previously, he has set out to remould it in his own image.

 

The new Apple bears the imprint of Jobs's obsessiveness. "When they take on a problem at Apple they discuss it from every possible angle until they have absolutely mastered it."

 

Kahney points to a telling - and rare - anecdote from Jobs's own private life. A few years ago he needed to replace the family washer-dryer. Where most people might go online and select a model that looked right for them, Jobs embarked on a two-week consultation process with his wife and children. Every night around the dinner table they explored a different aspect of the ideal machine - how much water it used, its ecological footprint, its cleaning ability and how it impacted on clothes. Then he went out and bought one of the most expensive German models.

 

Apple is sticking to that Big Brother mantra that Jobs will return later this month, though it adds that he may come back initially in a part-time capacity. The question, though, is can the culture that he has created in his own image survive him?

 

Other senior executives have been stepping up to the plate since Jobs's enforced absence. Tim Cook is widely tipped as a possible replacement as CEO. He has run the show for the last few months, proving himself to be a diligent and safe pair of hands, but analysts wonder whether he lacks the creative spark that Jobs has had in abundance. Last Friday's launch of the latest iPhone was competent, but where was the magic?

 

The same issue exists in reverse for Jonathan Ive, Apple's legendary designer. As a design artist he is unsurpassed, but he lacks the clout and the fear factor that Jobs uses to generate loyalty and drive results.

 

And then there's that other overwhelming question, which has little bearing on Apple's commercial future but has every bearing on Jobs's personal prospects. Why would someone facing the threat of cancer spreading from his pancreas to other organs want to bother with mere gadgetry any longer? Hasn't he got bigger worries now on his mind than whizzbang phones?

 

There is another clue here provided by a speech he gave in 2005 - just after his surgery for cancer - to a class of graduating students at Stanford. He spent a third of the speech talking directly about death. "Remembering I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

 

In a few weeks' time we will know - Big Brother permitting - the choice that Jobs has made this time round. Given his record, it is a safe bet that he will yet again follow his heart. And that his heart will be Apple