Steve Jobs kept the iPad out of his children’s hands
The tech titan was Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder. When asked about his children’s use of the iPad, he said they had not used it. The striking detail was not that Jobs rejected technology altogether—he had helped bring some of its most influential products to market—but that he did not automatically give his own children access to them.
A household rule, not a verdict on technology
Jobs’s reported limit offered a glimpse of a tension familiar to parents: a device can be an ingenious tool and an absorbing source of entertainment at the same time. Tablets make it easy to move from reading or learning to games and videos, often with little effort between one activity and the next. Deciding when a child is ready to use one, and what they will do with it, is a separate question from whether the device is useful to adults.
The anecdote does not establish that Jobs opposed screens in every form or that he had a universal rule for raising children. Its lasting point is more specific: even the person most closely associated with making a digital device desirable could choose to keep that device away from his own kids.**
