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Steve Jobs
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Apple's New Mac Ads Are Embarrassing
The Verge's 2012 critique of Apple's 'Genius' Mac ads as embarrassingly un-Apple — broad, lowest-common-denominator humor that would have been killed under Jobs. A marker of the post-Jobs identity anxiety that followed the transition to Tim Cook.
Steve Jobs Was Right to 'Steal,' and Beer Is Inspiring
PandoDaily defending Jobs' famous 'good artists copy, great artists steal' philosophy — arguing that creative theft (synthesis and transformation, not copying) is a feature of great design and product thinking. The beer angle was about how informal settings unlock creative thinking.