Why Steve Jobs Didn't Have A License Plate
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- Steve Jobs was known for having many strange habits, one of which was not having a license plate on his car. And his reason for this is equally as strange.
In the state of California, there used to be a loophole where a new car could be driven without a permanent license plate for up to six months.
Jobs took advantage of this by leasing a new silver Mercedes-Benz every six months. Each time the lease term approached the six-month limit, he would return the car and lease an identical model.
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"Emotionally handicapped" Absulte savage
i thought it was for physically handicapped 😂
You probably say “sigma” unironically
Emotionally handicapped might be very savage but I love it.
says the guy that can't spell 'absolute'
Code word for being an asshole
In other words: Steve Jobs might have been a marketing genius but in everyday life he was a jerk.
Yes, but I would say that is a consequence.
I will speed because I dont wanna lose time.
Without licensed plate because yolo.
Idk...
Or antisocial psychopath, to put it more precise.
@@cycleistic1365brokie
@@cycleistic1365 no thats not accurate
he wasnt a psychopath, and probably had some kind of borderline personality disorder but dont exxagerate to make a point
most extremely talented people are very abnormal in a variety of ways
@@paulbarclay4114 Well, let's say stating him being a psychopath is an overstatement as much as calling him a plain 'jerk' is an understatement, so.
Jean Louie called it. Jobs was pretentious and entitled. It shortened his life because he refused to follow medical advice.
yeah he belive in traditional medicine if im not mistaken
The five year survival rate for pancreatic cancer was less than 10% at that time.
He actually had a rare form of pancreatic cancer that was treatable however though he chose to not go with conventional treatments. He did regret it later once this condition advanced. It was already too late.
@@Weepecket it depends on which form of pancreatic cancer. and in his case, it was neuroendocrine tumor and treatable if caught early. even in those days.
Precisely which medical advice does anything at all for pancreatic cancer?
"soaked feet in public toilets"
hol' up tf
@ARandomDudeinU.S 0:08
@ARandomDudeinU.Shanging out with Gates
It’s true. He would do that as a stress reliever.
@ARandomDudeinU.S probably from walter isaacson's biography book steve jobs
yeah he killed himself essentially.
I had a friend who worked with Steve. He said that he would fire you on the spot if he caught you following him, and that you can only talk to him if he talked to you first.
So if you fell down the stairs and broke your leg you could only inform Steve if he talked to you about something else first?
@@TheDMChannelPerplexityworkman's comp I guess
@@TheDMChannelPerplexity If you'd bought AppleCare+ there was a slight chance he might let you speak first here.
Surprised that California is an at-will state, because I thought it was more progressive than that.
That is how power works. Some people have to be trained.
What? A billionaire that thinks the rules don’t apply to him? Impossible!
He didn't think they didn't apply to him, they didn't
@@jordanwardle11Unless they instituted a progressive fine system based on your income like they have in Finland. A guy got a $130k speeding ticket.
@@jordanwardle11except for the rules of biology.
@@jordanwardle11 that's true. Do you know what would happen to anybody else who honked at a cop, smarted off like that, and then drove like that?
@@jordanwardle11he is in the ground now and I’m still alive enjoying life. Sucks to be him now I guess.
SOAKED FEET IN WHAT
Public Toilets?
It’s pretty common here in the united states
since when the absolute shit did this start
@@keybno it’s not.
@@LambdaMiscellaneous
I do that all the time. It’s just water. Very convenient to freshen up on a summer day.
Yeah then he nibbled on his toenails after dinner. I seen it
I was not ready for the fact that Steve jobs soaked his feet in public toilets 💀😭
same
He also thought vegetables could cure his cancer and disregarded common medical consensus.
Right?? Same!
Are you sure he didn't soak his head in the toilet !! What an asshole !!
@@dangerchicken6943soaking feet in toilet was a first world tradition
Steve Jobs lived by Think Different--and it came back to bite him in the end.
with alternative medicine oncology treatment
@@2022_temporary We'd probably still have one of the greatest men in the world if he had just had surgery when he was diagnosed.
@@TheLordOfNothing"Greatest men in the world"
I mean... He took up accomodation spaces and drove recklessly, among many other crummy things. Overall, he was a pretty terrible person who just happened to get successful by knowing how to use other people's work to his own advantage.
@@CybernerdShua true
@@CybernerdShua same with tim cook rn
It's always those weirdos who succeed. Treat your nerds properly fellas, you don't wanna regret it
If this is how succeeding weirdos behave then nah
You won’t get a bit of their success 😂
NOT Always, some people who are successful are just weirdos
not quite. always the successful who turn weird. as if they realized they are the same dogshit human they were before they had money, so they act worse
5th
I’m sorry, “Soaked feet in public toilets”?
Did I read that correctly?
Gross
Yep, it was also in the Jobs movie in 2015
@@Hybrid225 I didn’t watch the movie and I was going to, but I think I won’t now… that’s just disgusting.
@@Hybrid225I can't even begin to imagine the look on the actor's face when told he needed to do that.
@@Gabriel-i77 I do that all the time. It’s just water. Very convenient to freshen up on a summer day.
Up next: why steve jobs is the main character
He kinda was the main character for a while, tbh.
There was a time when the entire tech industry was at his whim.
Was*
Are you a homosexual?
@@xXmlgamingXx355true. But his very attitude lead to his demise
@@rumourplays yeah, true. His cancer was actually caught pretty early, but he decided to go for alternative care instead of regular chemo because… reasons.
Greg, this video was better than what you’ve done in the past few because you’re including actual pictures and telling a historical story. Takes me back to your old videos. I loved it. Thank you so much!
I second this
Right?! Pictures and a historical recap just feels so much more personal and interesting than animations
0:35 that barcode is nothing more than a VIN. The manufacturer puts it behind the license plate
Not on most cars unless Cali cars are weird and do it.
@@JezzaTheChampMost cars from the 90s to recent have a VIN sticker on every single removable body panel. To help identify stolen parts, and to see if a vehicle has any body parts that are not original.
Mercedes Benz puts that long barcode behind the license plate, I’ve seen many with it
Yes. We got a piece of paper that was taped to the inside of the front window. A few yrs ago they switched and it’s now a paper license plate - Jobs would have lost his 💩
@@JezzaTheChamp It's common on German cars. Mercedes and BMW have bar codes in that location, it's the VIN.
What on earth is that parking at the top right 1:45 😭😭
The old Apple HQ at One Infinity Loop, Cupertino.
Jobs thought he was above everybody else.Truth is,he wasn’t.He was not a nice person.
Bingo!
Really?
@@MatthewMS. Yep.
Are you insinuating his methods didn’t work? He was very clearly above everyone else lol
@@MatthewMS.he asked a girl employee to get him a coffee, she was running late by accident and fired her ☕️
forget the soaking feet in toilets, its the lack of furniture that got me
Who tf sleeps without a bed
@@guest9445 Steve Jobs and homeless people
This man is why California now has temporary license plates for new/used car purchases. You're welcome....
This couldn't be further from the truth. He died in 2011. They enacted the temporary plate law in 2016. He didn't change anything about the laws, especially while he was abusing the loophole.
It’s crazy that there was this loophole.
The massive number of unpaid tolls led to the temp plate. 6 months was the legal time but others went years without them
That started because of people avoiding tolls.
There are also now _federal_ laws governing organ transplants because he put himself on the waiting list in multiple jurisdictions.
So, did Steve get cancer from breathing all those new car fumes from outgassing plastic?
Hahahahahahahahahaha...
Could be.
That and breathing in lead solder fumes.
When he worked at Atari he wouldn't shower for days/weeks at a time. Smelled routinely of B/O.
I just saw a picture of Greg and its NOT what I expected him to look like.
Where did you see a picture of Greg?
@@TheSouthIsHot Google, “Greg Apple explained” and he’s under images
He has videos with his face
Sounds like a real piece of work. I’m one of his enablers, though….. I’m watching and commenting on an iPhone.
He did the same thing at Pixar after Apple. There he had one particular parking spot and there was always a silver Mercedes coupe with no plates in the spot every time I walked by.
I heard from a friend who worked at Apple back then that someone placed a note on Jobs’ car that read “Park Different”. True or not, it was funny.
The fact that he didn’t have his own parking spot and chose to use a handicap spot shows what kind of person he was.
A war hero
@@jamescrock2213 no
He also always parked in our executive parking, lot in the handicap spots. He also rear ended an employees car in front of IL1.
That small barcode is just a vin tag… that is put on I believe at the factory.
Could he not just make a CEO parking spot 😭😭
D bags want to take whats not theirs just to be a D bag
The barcode is not in place of the license plate. Mercedes puts a barcode there with the VIN above it on all of their cars and has done this for decades.
hope you're having a good day, Greg
Bruh cancer almost had to teach him a lesson☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
No just no
Cancer doesn’t work like that.
@@TheApqleGuy ratio
The crazy thing it didn’t. I don’t believe he did regular treatments for cancer. I think he took a homeopathic route. He was different till the end lol.
Keyword: Almost.
Will you be making videos on the other weird habits? I knew about the fruit and license plate ones but know nothing about the others.
the cop ticket story has me dying 😭
I worked as a motorcycle officer in Cupertino at the time. We were quite familiar with Jobs' car when we saw it on the road.
One day my partner brought his iPhone to the store that's on the first floor of the main building and was getting off his bike when Steve Jobs walked up and asked him what could he do to help. He got the iPhone working the way it should for him. This being the 1st generation iPhone.
I later worked at Apple in Global Security and was there when he passed.
Add that to the list of things that never happened.
@@ObamaoZedong Frankly, don't care if you believe it.
Did he smell? Heard he didn’t shower.
Errm, I don’t know if Steve Jobs is my hero anymore…
Wait until all the dirt on Elon Musk eventually comes out. That is truly a malignant narcissist with far worse behaviors towards other than a jobs. Con man fraud.
Wuss
Yehhh, better find yourself someone else...other than toilet-hippy-man.
The dude really thought he was above the law and it cost him his life
Not just above the law, the Chosen One. Total delusions of grandeur.
I mean he did believe he could beat cancer without going to the doctor so
It also helped his mythos. He needed to strike the right balance of his employees being scared of him but able to feel like they can be honest and have the drive to achieve their tasks. Having his own employees see every day proof that Jobs believed rules don't matter may have been part of his whole persona. The rules (i.e. conventions) didn't matter, only making the best products did. Following the rules almost bankrupt Apple under that Pepsi guy.
After 10 years, this was worth the wait.
There is a widely circulated anecdote about Steve Jobs soaking his feet in a company toilet. According to Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs, he did indeed have a habit of soaking his feet in the toilet to relieve stress. This story has become part of the lore surrounding Jobs' unconventional behavior and eccentricities.
However, it’s important to note that this behavior was described as happening in the private bathrooms at Apple’s offices, not in public restrooms. This distinction is crucial in understanding the context of the story and its setting within his workplace.
This where the philosophy of Apple being different attitude comes in
The ironic thing is I pretty easily figured out where he lived (quant upscale neighborhood in Palo Alto) and one evening when I was in that area drove by his house and sure enough, there was the silver Mercedes with no plate. (This was 2007 or so) Oh, and in early 2000s I visited Apple and saw his car in that handicap spot! I was there for a special game developer preview of Mac OS X, I believe 2000. All good times.
Seems like he was approaching Howard Hughes weirdness.
Soaked feet in the toilet wtf
I would have thought that having no licence plate would result in many delays while you explained to the officer why it was OK.
We'd park in the handicap spot in uni too if the guard wouldn't let you get away with it. It was unused parking space.
Later on they expanded the space.
Spoken like a true Arab
Next Video Idea:
Why do iPhones don’t have the custom engraving
I live in Palo Alto and trust me it just made him stand out more 😂
There are some wonderful companies as well. With very informed and top-of-class people who work well together on a team with others with different strengths. With leadership who viewed their colleagues and clients as a part of a living organism that produced value.
Sadly some of those are gone as well, not out of business like the lacklusters, but things change.
This and the other facts you mentioned en passant, makes him so weird not only in a positive way I’ve always seen him originally.
Steve Jobs had curable pancreatic cancer and knew folks at Stanford that were doctors that warned him to get the needed surgery or die. Jobs decided to ignore the expert advice and went on a special diet which failed to cure him...
I'd say RIP, but the man was a monster to his employees ! The biography of him is eye opening
the story for years was that his license plate got stolen within a week of getting it, so he chose the 6month grace period as solution instead.
“Instead a small barcode in its place”
Mercedes cars all have that bar code. Super deep research.
Many people go to court without license plates and with their cases, it's basically unconstitutional, and is written into law that is not required...
Despite laws "requiring" vehicle registration, drivers license, or insurance, in non-commercial context none of those are required. Courts have so ruled for decades on that issue. It is called "right to travel". If you are engaged in commerce using a vehicle of any type, you do need registration, license, and insurance. But not your private vehicle that is not engaged in commercial activity. View some videos on TH-cam using search term, "right to travel" and you will hit the jackpot. 99.99% of Americans don't know that. Think about it: needing a license to walk on a public sidewalk is ridiculous, right? Then why is it necessary to get a license to drive a car? That does not mean you can violates safety rules like speed limits, etc. It just means you are free to travel without the permission of the government. It is a fundamental right of every citizen. There is a lot of case law on this and judges have always ruled that registration, license, or insurance are NOT necessary to travel with your private vehicle.
1:52 Craig was holding his laught 😂😂
The guy was a forerunner in corporate cyber terrorism by devoting his life to spamming viruses that didn't affect Apples. When a PC got a virus, it was quarantine; when an Apple got one it was terminal. The 2000s were interesting times to be the guy who liked to fix things.
It's no wonder that he got legal exemptions.
Thanks to people like Jobs, California has changed its license plate laws. Now you get a paper license with numbers on it before driving off the car lot.
Jobs never accepted anything that inconvenienced him.
Jobs: "I want a mobile with a touch screen that I can use as a camera".
Apple engineer: "Impossible boss"
Jobs: "then make it possible or I'll find some else to do it for me."
You know what I respect him alot more now that I know those tidbits about him. We think alike..
I met Jobs in early ‘77 when he was doing an Apple II demo at a computer store in Cincinnati. What a complete jerk. I asked him why the Apple II did not use a character generator, and his response was, “Only a complete moron would use a character generator.” I found out decades later that he may have been referring to the Woz, who definitely wanted a character generator in the Apple II.
I remember every time i saw a silver car without a plate I'd pay attention. Im pretty sure i saw it once though
I think the feet soaking thing sounds more interesting than the licence plate thing 😳
“…replaced with a small barcode was in its place.” - Rough timestamps: 0:35 - 0:38 . That small barcode [Rough timestamps: 0:35 - 0:38 ] is actually a Vehicle Identification Sticker (“VIN Sticker”).
Please make video on other weird habits of steve jobs like having no furniture etc.
The barcode is not a substitute for a plate or anything like that. Mercedes puts those barcodes on at the factor on all cars of that era to identify the cars for production and delivery purposes, not a state of California thing
Entitled rich CEO's? Now that's new.
I have so many things in common with Steve Jobs
Doug Demuro killed the California license plate loophole!
Knowing what we know about Steve Jobs .. this actually makes perfect sense. The guy was obsessed with design, elegance , beauty and simplicity. A Mercedes Benz is a thing of beauty. Now imagine sticking an idiotic random government licence number on it " HXS-Y363". Not to mention that California license plates are very tacky with 4 different fonts, multiple colors, a sun and palm trees in the background etc. Horrible. Totally ruins the aesthetic of the car. Imagine your iphone with a sticker like that on it. Ughh!
That barcode comes from the factory, it’s not issued or applied by the dealer.
I figured he was just emulating Timothy Mcvey.
God fixed him
“Emotional handicapped” BURNNNNNEDDDD 😂😂😂😂
Why don’t you explain the soaked feet thingy?
I walked by his Palo Alto house, and the silver Mercedes was parked in front, on the wrong side of the road, but it had a license plate with his current company name: “NEXT”
I love your video editing! How can I learn to make videos like this?
Soak your computer in a public toilet.
Guess I ran across him on 101 one day before he started doing that....he had vanity plates.
My dad used to drive with no plate for up to two years (when he got another car) in order to use the fastrak in los Angeles without paying
Rich people often think laws don’t apply to them.
For the record, you’re still given a temporary license plate. It’s just that license plate is only good to people who want to follow him for 6 months. He’s not just rolling around with no temporary plate.
I vaguely remember this being mentioned in Walter's biography.
Visionary or not the man was just out of touch with reality specifically with personal hygiene. He believed that his vegan diet meant he didn’t need to use deodorant or shower for weeks at a time.
I am interesting to watch more videos about Jobs‘ others Strange Habits.
Given his personality, I'll bet it came as an absolute shock when he was told his cancer was terminal.
Restating the question as the answer doesn’t make them very smart. More rude than anything
Cancer wasn't his biggest health problem, people. Especially those of you arguing whether it was treatable. In his condition, probably not.
Man, Steve was a badass. Gone too soon.
this honestly just seems to me like he was trying to be a hardcore contrarian. at least he wasnt as bad with it as musk is right now.
Well the speed limits are ridiculously low, especially in Murica.
1:40 This actually pretty common for entitled rich people to do
We need a video on the other things on the list lol
Steve Jobs believed soaking his feet in Apple headquarters toilets helped relieve stress and stimulate his creative thinking.
I am above the law!!!! - Steve Jobs
Jobs the original freeman of the land
The smartest people can sometimes do the dumbest things.
hard to say he was the smartest
Abusing accessible parking is a very hard line for me, how disappointing to learn. Why wouldn't you just ask for a reserved spot? Or hire a valet? It's a CL55, you've got the money.
He was above such meneal tasks
Greg, can you explain why the 11 Pro is smallest phone in the 11 lineup?
Wait a minute. Apple didn't have a parking spot for the CEO? Why do I have the feeling it does, but he never, or rarely, used it?