{"id":1891,"date":"2025-11-12T13:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:23:15","slug":"the-clever-story-of-ending-steve-jobs-critiques-of-the-macintosh-calculator-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/the-clever-story-of-ending-steve-jobs-critiques-of-the-macintosh-calculator-app\/","title":{"rendered":"The clever story of ending Steve Jobs\u2019 critiques of the Macintosh Calculator app"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/The-sweet-story-of-ending-Steve-Jobs-critiques-of-the-Macintosh-Calculator-app.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1400\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/steve-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steve Jobs<\/a> was infamous for his harsh critiques of the work of his team. Hardware or software, if Steve wasn\u2019t 100% happy, you would certainly know about it.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Espinosa, who wrote the first Macintosh calculator app and still works at Apple as its longest-serving employee, found a creative way around Steve\u2019s never-ending critiques in what must be one of the best ever examples of managing upwards \u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,mac,steve-jobs\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1027864\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/11\/12\/the-clever-story-of-ending-steve-jobs-critiques-of-the-macintosh-calculator-app\/#more-1027864\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was infamous for his harsh critiques of the work of his team. Hardware or software, if Steve wasn\u2019t 100% happy, you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/the-clever-story-of-ending-steve-jobs-critiques-of-the-macintosh-calculator-app\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}