One has to wonder how successful Steve Jobs would or could be without petulance.

Ironic how, exactly? I would feel the exact same way in Jobs' shoes - I would reserve the right to protect my company's trade secrets using any legal method. I would also reserve the right to choose not to be the distributor for a book that was unfavorable about me. Did Jobs try to stop the publication? Nope. He just chose not to help it reach an audience through the Apple store.

I approve of both moves.

While your point is valid, I disagree. There are plenty of other publishers out there that do educational titles - I don't think it's unwise to choose a different one.

Look at it this way: it may be ego on Steve's part, but is it really fair for this pubisher to put out a negative book on the CEO of one of it's business partners? Should they think that the two things are totally unrelated? I don't. You can't remove personal feelings from business deals, nice as it might be if you could. Although Steve has thought from the hip many times in the past to the detriment of Apple, this is one time where I think he has every right not to want to deal with a company that would put a negative message out there... it's really a conflict of interests and I don't see it impacting Apple negatively at all to pull their books from Apple retail locations.

Steve has created a double standard to protect himself.

Jobs will lose his battle in the Supreme Court if he tries to stop news agencies from reporting. As long as TS, AI, Joeseph Blough, come across information by legal means, Freedom of Speech wins out.

He is making an ass out of himself whether he is right or wrong.

Steve needs to stop acting like he is on the playground and get some thicker skin and plug those leaks.


As far as pulling the books off his shelves goes, he can do whatever he wants. That business and it is his constituional right to do so.


Edited to correct one typo that macFanDave pointed out. \

That's more of Jobs being an ass-clown.