Apple Dictionary Has No Clue Who Steve Jobs Is

I use my desktop Mac dictionary widget often, especially when I want to quickly look for alternate words via the Thesaurus. I found when selecting the Apple reference library recently that my Mac has no friggin' clue who Steve Jobs is. I get that Apple's Newton PDA platform produces a major "duh", but Steve Jobs can't be found? Fail!

If that painful fact was not disturbing enough, while the library gives a brief history of Apple's Macintosh computer it obviously omits any reference to Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak or Ronald Wayne as founders. My god man! This is blasphemy I tell you! The reference even points to Apple, Inc. as introducing the Macintosh computers in 1984 rather than under the original Apple Computer banner.

If Apple is going to continue including a reference library widget with every Mac, they may want to do a much better job conveying their own epic history by definition. It wouldn't take too much effort to make that upgrade fellas. If anywhere on the entire planet, Apple's history should be told accurately on a Mac.

Comments

[Partners in Grime]

Check the washroom.

[Goodtime]

The Apple reference area in the Dictionary Widget is useless. I never tried it before, but just did. It's baaaaad (and not in a good way).

The Apple ref should know Steve and Woz. Too Dictionary portion of the App and Widget knows Jobs, but the Apple area is dumbed down to the point of uselessness.

[iPhone Savior]

Thank you all for correcting my blatant stupidity. While it would be easier to blame jet lag for this post, I would rather face the firing squad of public ridicule. It's a better teacher. I admit it... I really don't know the difference between a dictionery and an encylopidia.

But I do know how to spell them. Here's a better headline:

"I Have No Clue What An Apple Encyclopedia Is"

[Neal]

Thanks to the Internet, and nobody needing to know how to use reference books any more, an unfortunate side-effect is that someone like you doesn't know the difference between a dictionery and an encylopidia!

:)

[Goodtime]

You are using the wrong Apple Dictionary. Try not using the widget and use the Dictionary.app and you'll find the correct definition:

Jobs |jäbz|
Jobs, Steven (Paul) (1955– ), U.S. computer entrepreneur. He set up the Apple computer company in 1976 with Steve Wozniak and served as chairman until 1985, returning in 1997 as CEO. He is also the CEO of the Pixar animation studio.