This story of when Steve Jobs 'blew up' over a photographer is a classic example of what his biographer called 'Bad Steve'

Mon, 08/21/2023 - 04:30

Photo of Steve Jobs in Paris in 1998. He's outside wearing glasses and a long sleeve black shirt. — Steve Jobs introduced the iMac 25 years ago, but he was apparently very picky about even the photographers involved for a press shoot.
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Steve Jobs apparently "blew up" because he was unhappy with a photographer ahead of iMac's release.
The new anecdote from Wired editor Steven Levy was published to mark the iMac's 25th anniversary.
Levy writes that Jobs also was also unsure of a different photographer, but eventually was won over.

A quarter of a century ago, in 1998, Steve Jobs announced the iMac — a piece of technology that reverberated across the personal computer industry and aided Apple's comeback.