Stephen Paul Jobs was an American entrepreneur, inventor, industrial designer. He was recognized as a pioneer in the era of information technology. He was one of the founders and chairman of the board of directors and CEO at Apple. Jobs proved to be a very extraordinary person. Naturally, he had a number of shortcomings. Here are seven unknown facts from the life of a genius.
Steve Jobs did not recognize charity
Steve Jobs had only one attempt to do charity work, but it was unsuccessful. After he left Apple in 1986, he founded his foundation, but a year later he closed it. After returning to Apple in 1997, he canceled all the company's charitable programs and never integrated them again, even with huge profits. According to Mark Vermillion, who managed the Jobs Foundation, he did not have time for charity work.
Apple employees were monitored
During the leadership of Jobs, Apple created a group called the Worldwide Loyalty Team - a team of employees whose task was to spy on headquarters, shops and employees of Apple. According to some reports, when an exclusive information leak occurred, the company seized phones and computers to find out the source.
Apple intimidated the press
During Jobs’s command, Apple’s legal service was known to intimidate journalists. One of these cases was observed in 2005. Then the company filed a civil lawsuit against blogger Nick Ciarelli, who posted information on the Mac Mini processor on his blog before the official release. The legal confrontation ended only after Ciarelli agreed to close his blog.
The company did not stop at nothing to get what it wanted.
In 2011, the company lost the prototype iPhone 5. Apple’s security service conducted an unofficial investigation, which led to the house of 22-year-old Sergio Calderon. Employees searched the house, as well as the owner's computer and car. But the problem was that the police officers, although they were in this place, did not take part in the search.
Jobs's company hired minors
The company's enterprises in China regularly employed 16-year-olds. In addition, to meet the huge global demand for Apple products, intensive labor intensification was practiced. Factories did not close, working seven days a week and 24 hours a day.
Employees suffered from insults
Steve Jobs had a tyrant reputation. In 2008, right after the failed launch of the MobileMe email system, which would provide synchronization features such as BlackBerry, Jobs publicly demoralized the team responsible for creating it.
Jobs fired people without warning
While Jobs was chairman of the board of directors for Pixar, the loss of profits in all three areas — hardware, software, and animation — prompted Steve to make layoffs. He insisted that the workers be left without notice and compensation.