Imposing their own taste would have the potential to limit sales. Similar to how if you want to ensure a good resale value for your home, you shouldn't make the decor too "specific", as it could put off potential buyers.

I'm not defending Jobs, but people are more than one thing. It's possible he was entirely sincere when he wrote that email (allegedly), but was not that compelled to reconcile that sort of ideal with his other thoughts and actions. Thus I don't think everything Jobs said should be dismissed. I also understand why many have a hard time appreciating things that "bad" people say.

It is a shame that he said that to his daughter on his deathbed. I'd not heard about that until you mentioned it. People sometimes say crazy things or revert to earlier memories during their final few minutes, but for Lisa, that must have solidified the reality that they would never have reconciled.

The point of my comment wasn't to glorify Steve Jobs, but to criticize the other commenter's unreasonable prejudice.

> saying his daughter smelled like a 'toilet' on his deathbed

This requires a citation.

I've seen claims by people who knew him that he was narcissistic (which I find easy to believe) but none that he was sociopathic.

Do you roll your eyes at yourself whenever you, say, drive a car?

We're surrounded by things that have their company's branding prominently plastered on them. Hell, stuff like luxury bags (eg: Louis Vuitton) exist specifically to flaunt a company's branding.

Of course, it would be nice if we weren't surrounded by marketing and advertising everywhere all the time, but that's beside the point.

I mean, the line hits a bit different coming from Steve Jobs, he built* the fucking thing.

* yeah yeah, I know

If you don’t get offended, perhaps you get things out of proportion?

People who are so image conscious that they care about that kind of thing in themselves or others really seem like they have their priorities in the wrong place.

It ends up being a great filter, leaving things around to bother the kinds of people you don’t want to impress.

I understand that, but keeping the default email signature might also mean that said person is so busy or detached from technology that they don't even know/have-time-to change their email signature.

Between body heat from being in your pocket and heat from the electronics, the unpleasant glass usually isn't cold.

I personally wouldn't draw all these conclusions from the email footer alone and I'd refrain from speculation as well. It's a footer at the end of the day, but that's me I guess.

Quite the opposite, I make things better that strike me as being important. Things that aren’t don’t get attention.

Like the table manners of which of four forks are “correct” to use, many things I just don’t care to be “good” at and folks who do strike me as odd.

> they have neither wish not curiosity in how to make things better

Nonsense. Plenty of people have curiousity in how to make things better but don't do it in ways that you would see.

I strongly dislike people like you

Oh, at the time, I probably felt miffed over it, and maybe once responded with a juvenile signature, "Sent from my iPhone that your mom bought me".

But, more general than incidents of iPhone bragging/enthusiasm, I have more data points now, of different people's various motivations and thinking, and I try to remind myself not to get bent out of shape. Kinda like in David Foster Wallace's "This is Water" commencement speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

Don't worry, nobody thought it was literally everyone.