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“In a bravura demonstration of stonewalling, righteousness, and hurt sincerity, Steve Jobs successfully took to the stage the other day to deny the problem, dismiss the criticism, and spread the blame among other smartphone makers,鈥 Michael Wolff of newser.com wrote. 鈥淭his is a level of modern marketing, corporate spin, and crisis management about which you can only ask with stupefied incredulity and awe: How do they get away with it? Or, more accurately, how does he get away with it?鈥 Wolff attributed it to Jobs鈥檚 mesmerizing effect as 鈥渢he last charismatic individual.鈥 Other CEOs would be offering abject apologies and swallowing massive recalls, but Jobs didn鈥檛 have to. 鈥淭he grim, skeletal appearance, the absolutism, the ecclesiastical bearing, the sense of his relationship with the sacred, really works, and, in this instance, allows him the privilege of magisterially deciding what is meaningful and what is trivial.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
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