He was a true accomplished trailblazer with a compelling corporate and personal story, and didn't mind hurting feelings along the way. History is built on these people like it or not.
He had tons of failure and failed in the worst possible ways blaming everyone all around him and not taking any responsibility and then he got a chance to rebound and was finally successful. It's complete scoreboard journalism, if for whatever reason at the end apple didn't succeed we'd just put him in the POS column. But instead cause he made some of that sweet green (at the end) we say he's amazing.
That is what I don't get.
Nothing changes a fact. That's what makes them facts. If you are still undecided about whether Jobs was a POS in his personal life after everything we already know, your lack of objectivity makes your opinion weigh very little in the debate about if his professional accomplishments somehow mitigate that.
'change that fact' can be taken, in this context, to be an abbreviation for 'change the degree to which this fact is relevant to the given discussion'.
...but I'm sure you already knew that.
> your lack of objectivity
You don't sound particularly objective either. But perhaps you never claimed to be. I certainly didn't.
