[JimDabell]

This is something I posted on Threads yesterday, but this kind of thing comes up every WWDC and every September.

> It’s WWDC week. Every time this rolls around, I see people saying the same sort of thing. “Steve Jobs wouldn’t have done this”.

> Firstly, Jobs wasn’t perfect. He got a lot of things right and a lot of things wrong. His opinion wasn’t the end of the argument when he was alive, and it’s certainly not now that he’s been dead 14 years.

> But more importantly: Stop putting your opinion in a dead man’s mouth to give it more credibility. It’s ghoulish. Let your opinion stand on its own two feet.

[jsbisviewtiful]

The folks saying "Steve Jobs wouldn't have done this" didn't know him at all and have no idea what he would do - They just want their opinion to have some form of validation because they feel that no one will give it to them otherwise. Additionally, the dude's dead because he refused chemo. He wasn't a genius saint.

[philistine]

Steve Jobs himself asked everybody at Apple not to second-guess what he would have done. I'm pretty sure they show quotes when they train executives at Apple University.