A Sociology of Steve Jobs (2011)

I presume something must have been done to right the wrong at least with the important people, otherwise they would just walk out at that point.

Despite long-promised stock options that Levy had earlier persuaded a reluctant Jobs to finally grant to Pixar employees, Jobs had retained enough shares that he was now a billionaire.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19624164

I'm curious if more information transparency change the employment market.

This is less of an Apple problem and more of a 1990's problem. I often had painful nights where I'd lose hours of work on Documents and PowerPoints because my Windows 98 either froze or crashed.

It was a much better writing machine than most of the later machines I have encountered.

Funny, considering how games were never first class citizen in Jobs or Apple's strategy for their devices.

Was there anything in that sort of price range that did have memory protection?

A PC with OS/2? An Acorn machine with RISC OS?

Apple's worst years were when Jobs was gone and the company's management was trying to beat IBM clones when Apple had few distinguishing features and the clones were competing on thin margins, while Apple largely tried to avoid the (except the few years when they allowed Apple clones). When Jobs returned, the OS changed, the CPU architecture changed, the shape and design of the computers changed, and new computing devices (iPod, iPhone, iPad) and created the iTunes + App Store.

So, if the next Jobs gets them from near bankruptcy negative -200 million to a trillion dollar worth company and huge cultural cachet and consumer influence, they wouldn't want to work with him because he occasionally yells at people, or is very demanding, etc?

I'd say if someone is recognized as the "next Steve Jobs" there would be lines to get hired there... As there were lines to get hired at Apple during his tenure, so this "nobody actually wants to work with" seems a little wishful thinking...