I am heartbroken. Steve Jobs has died, one day after iphone 4s was introduced. There is simply nothing to say, his influence was so enormous. He was a genius who hung in with Apple until nearly the bitter end. Who didn’t think of him yesterday when Tim Cook led the event? I think we all wondered where the black turtleneck and blue jeaned icon was.
The black shirt and the jeans will live on in our culture for eternity. He has forever changed the way we interact with media and technology.
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Excellent website: http://www.allaboutstevejobs.com/
Please leave your memories and thoughts about the many contributions of Steve Jobs.
A Time Line:
I am wondering if this isn’t just an event introducing the iCoffin.
People were waiting for the “Oh, and there’s one more thing” from yesterday. Well, here it is…..wasn’t what they had in mind I bet.
<– is sad.
he fought his illness for some time, I hope he is at peace now. He has left a legacy behind that will never be forgotten.
Wow, I was shocked and saddened. Ironically I discovered the news only when I logged onto my computer, with the Apple site being the home page, and there was the date 2011 staring at me. He was the soul of Apple, and will probably be remembered in history right beside Thomas Edison, and Alexander Graham Bell.
Rest In Peace, Mr. Jobs. You made my first computer and got me hooked on computer games. Well done, sir, on making the world a better place. Well done, indeed.
I resisted Apple products for a long, long time, until about a year ago when I got an iPad. Now I’m hooked.
Rest in peace, Mr. Jobs.
We now have slid into the post-Jobs era, and Steve Jobs is now on an i-cloud somewhere in cyber-cosmos smiling at his influence and getting a well deserved rest. Things will never be quite the same.
Neither Jobs nor Gates graduated from college. What does that tell us?
I am all for people doing what makes them happy rather than always trying to please others.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/10/steve-jobs/246236/
A biological son of a Syrian immigrant father and a college dropout redefined
what “American know how” means at the start of the 21st. century.
The Onion obit: http://www.theonion.com/articles/last-american-who-knew-what-the-fuck-he-was-doing,26268/
The genius of Steve Jobs rested on the fact that he convinced us, without a great deal of effort, what we wanted. He made us want what we did not know existed.
I wonder when we will see such a visionary again (she says, typing on her MacBook Pro). The guy knew how to sell a product. My teenagers are almost always plugged into something Apple, too. He really made an impact.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/10/in-praise-of-bad-steve/246242/
“Apple wasn’t built by a saint. It was built by an iron-fisted visionary”
Today he gets to be a saint, like most people do right after they die.
Ok, ok…I suppose as a memorial, I’ll have to buy all the Apple products that were in the pipeline when he died, up to and including the apple television. It’s the right thing to do…..it’s what he would have wanted.
Absolutely. It is your duty to do so, Pokie. Check out this website:
http://www.allaboutstevejobs.com/
Hmph. Most of the laudatory stuff you guys are saying, and that the world at large is saying, seems comical to me. Jobs was a salesman, not an innovator. He didn’t invent things – he invented pretty plastic containers to put them in, and ad campaigns that made people feel warm and fuzzy about overpaying for Apple products.
When you analyze what the guy really did with his life, he effected wealth transfer from the young and naive to his stockholders. His main enduring legacy is landfills full of once-shiny plastic casings.
If the real innovators of the world resembled Jobs and Apple, I guess Google would come down for a few months while they took care to paint all of their server stacks purple, pink, and blue. The military would suspend GPS operations while they relaunched all 32 GPS satellites in a variety of colors that were aesthetically pleasing.
Aren t you the cynic, Rick. He was pretty inventive with those first apple computers. Someone had to think all the wonder up, now didn’t they? How do you think up something people want when they don’t know they want it? That’s a pretty good trick.
That’s the one innovative thing that Apple ever did, but I think Wozniac was the builder, and Jobs was about selling it.
You don’t like Jobs? Is this a Gates v Jobs thing or you just think Jobs is overrated?
Other people who were able to conceptualize popular products before a market existed :
Whoever invented crack cocaine
Purveyors of new forms of vile porography, say Max Hardcore
Inventors of religions (L. Ron Hubbard, Moses, jesus, Mohammad, etc.)