iOS app Android app More  Steve Rosenbaum  Steve Rosenbaum
Posted: April 4, 2010 02:08 PM  Steve Jobs is a Nine-Year-Old
Child  What's Your Reaction:  Steve Jobs has the personality,
temperament and behavior of a nine-year-old. I've suspected this
for a while, and now I can prove it.  Don't get me wrong, he's a
brilliant nine-year-old.  He's headstrong, opinionated and
directly connected to his emotional and creative cortex.  I know
this because I spent hours at the Apple store on launch day
listening to adults moaning and groaning, and analyzing the
iPad. And at the same time I watched kids, some older, some
younger directly connected to the same emotions and energy that
Jobs has. The iPad won't make sense to folks who've grown up in
a pre-digital world. It's a device built to herald in the post-
digital era. In Jobs' mind, devices should be minimalist;
beautiful, simple, elegant, clean. They should do less, not
more, as data moves from the device to the cloud.  Don't get me
wrong, this is a device that "tim