Would Jobs nuke OpenAI or shove LLMs down Apple's throat?
One side says Jobs torches rivals. The other says he torches bad tools. Same man, opposite playbooks.
Ray Wong argues Jobs would crush OpenAI the way he crushed Google over Android. Ed Zitron counters Jobs would either mandate LLM use or ban them outright for hallucinating. Both lean on Jobs quotes and Apple culture without new evidence.
Why these scores — Both sides rest on the same 2010-era Jobs quotes about Android; Wong emphasizes external war, Zitron internal quality control. No new primary sources. High engagement but purely interpretive with no bot signals detected.
Jobs once promised to go thermonuclear on Android after calling it a rip-off. That single line now fuels two clashing predictions about OpenAI.
Ray Wong's camp treats the Android episode as proof Jobs destroys any threat that copies Apple DNA. They point to his public fury and internal war-room tactics as the template for handling generative AI.
Ed Zitron's camp reads the same history as intolerance for unreliable tools inside the company. They argue Jobs would either mandate flawless LLM use or kill the tech at Apple the moment it produced obvious errors.
Jobs treated Android as theft and mobilized Apple against Google. OpenAI copying the same playbook would trigger the same scorched-earth response.
- @raywongy✓ verified“Steve Jobs would go thermonuclear on OpenAI like he did on Google for Android.”
Jobs demanded perfection from tools inside Apple. He would either force every team to use reliable LLMs or ban them the first time they hallucinated.
- @edzitron✓ verified“Steve Jobs would demand every worker use LLMs or ban them for hallucinations.”
Read it straight — List three documented cases where Jobs adopted outside technology instead of destroying it, then test which prediction still holds.