6/1/2023 0 Comments Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-JobsBut as Brennan-Jobs tells it, Jobs finally admitted the name’s provenance during a lunch with musician Bono. He even went so far as to claim it was named after an old girlfriend, which Chrisann Brennan denied as the hogwash it so clearly must have been. Jobs repeatedly denied naming the Lisa after Brennan-Jobs, first to his daughter and then to Powell. (For the rest of his life, Jobs would unpredictably alternate between frugality and lavishness with Brennan-Jobs and her mother, in what comes across in the book as a form of psychological warfare.) “28% of the male population of the United States could be the father,” Jobs infamously told TIME in 1982 when asked about a paternity test conducted as part of a child support suit. Brennan-Jobs clearly struggled with that through her childhood, perhaps because it so awfully mirrors Jobs’ longtime denial that he was Brennan-Jobs’ father at all. Among the most famous examples of Jobs’ cruelty toward Brennan-Jobs - and one that becomes a leitmotif through the book - is his recurring denial that he named the Apple Lisa, a computer that predated the Macintosh, after her.
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