Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent

News Report · Nick Bilton · September 10, 2014

Bilton reports that he asked Jobs in late 2010 whether his children loved the iPad. Walter Isaacson separately described device-free family dinners, but that does not establish that the children never used an iPad. The article also records disagreement from Ali Partovi and Dick Costolo about extensive restrictions.

“They haven’t used it,” he told me. “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”

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Bilton reports that he asked Jobs in late 2010 whether his children loved the iPad. Walter Isaacson separately described device-free family dinners, but that does not establish that the children never used an iPad. The article also records disagreement from Ali Partovi and Dick Costolo about extensive restrictions. Supports the reported Jobs quotation and approximate conversation date; qualifies any suggestion of a total technology ban or systematic evidence about technology executives as a class.

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