Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks has received short shrift in the national and technical press after apparently backtracking over remarks he made about the late Apple founder, Steve Jobs.
The comments, made at a 70th anniversary dinner for the Council of Christians and Jews last week, were reported online in the Daily Telegraph in a story headlined "Chief Rabbi blames Apple for helping create selfish society".
Lord Sacks was quoted as saying: "The consumer society was laid down by the late Steve Jobs coming down the mountain with two tablets, iPad one and iPad two, and the result is that we now have a culture of iPod, iPhone, iTune - i, i, i.
"When you're an individualist, and egocentric culture and you care only about 'i', you don't do terribly well."
