RIP Steve Jobs

[GrillMouster]

Just heard on the news. Apple confirmed.

 

[theduck619]

May he rest in peace

 

[saturndb]

RIP Steve. I have loved my Apple Products for years and it is a sad day to have lost someone like him. Love him or hate him, he changed the way we live daily.

 

[HPS3]

Just heard the news. RIP Mr Jobs.

 

[PrincessInOz]

RIP Steve Jobs.

 

[Marlton Mom]

From MSNBC; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44794300/ns/business-us_business/#.To0D9M3GCvk

"I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."

He got into two other companies: Next, a computer maker, and Pixar, a computer-animation studio that he bought from George Lucas for $10 million.

Pixar, ultimately the more successful venture, seemed at first a bottomless money pit. Then in 1995 came "Toy Story," the first computer-animated full-length feature. Jobs used its success to negotiate a sweeter deal with Disney for Pixar's next two films, "A Bug's Life" and "Toy Story 2." In 2006, Jobs sold Pixar to The Walt Disney Co. for $7.4 billion in stock, making him Disney's largest individual shareholder and securing a seat on the board.

Rest in peace....
~MM

 

[ChiSoxKeith]

If you have never heard it, Jobs' commencement speech from 2006 is truly remarkable.

 

[ukcatfan]

I cannot stand Apple, but he did have a huge impact on the computer industry. RIP

 

[Experiment_626]

If you've used a computer since the mid-'80s (and if you haven't, how exactly are you reading this?), you owe something of the experience to Steve Jobs, even if you've never touched a Macintosh. If you've ever enjoyed a Pixar movie -- or really, any computer-animated movie produced since 1995 -- you owe something of that experience to Steve Jobs as well.

Scott

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I love many of the technical an artistic innovations he brought to the market. His business practices, not so much. I feel like I've lost a big brother.

 

[YesDear]

Those of you that trash apple products please remember as you are enjoying your tablets and droids that you probably would not have had them had apple not come out with the ipod, iphone, ipad first. Those products did change the way we live our lives and use technology. Yes they probably would have come out, but so far each of the above set a very large baseline for others to attempt to reach and surpass.

Thank you Steve!

 

[Experiment_626]

I love many of the technical an artistic innovations he brought to the market. His business practices, not so much. I feel like I've lost a big brother.

I feel the same, more or less. I definitely didn't agree with him on everything (but that's true with regard to everyone -- I don't even always agree with everything I do or have done), and he was certainly no saint. But sainthood -- or saintly behavior -- is hardly required for a meaningful contribution to the world. If it were, the list of those meeting the criteria would be really easy to remember due to brevity. I didn't alays agree with him -- and sometimes he would do or say something that made me angry -- but I always admired him and what he accomplished.

Scott

 

[ThurlFan]

Those of you that trash apple products please remember as you are enjoying your tablets and droids that you probably would not have had them had apple not come out with the ipod, iphone, ipad first. Those products did change the way we live our lives and use technology. Yes they probably would have come out, but so far each of the above set a very large baseline for others to attempt to reach and surpass.

Thank you Steve!

iPad was definitely a quantum leap forward in the decades-old tablet PC category, but the Blackberry beat apple to market with smartphones by a good six years, and the iPod followed the first commercially available portable music player (Listen Up mp3 player made by Audio Highway) by four years. So we would obviously still have smartphones and digital music players without Apple. Where Jobs' vision is undeniable is his dogged pursuit of touchscreen interfaces and intuitive, ergonomic designs. Which is why I've maintained for years that Apple is a design company much more than a technology company. And that's not intended as an insult - they are probably the premiere design organization in the world.

Steve Jobs' influence on the world around us was indeed profound and he will definitely be missed.

 

[klmall]

The very first computers DH and I bought were those Apples back in the 1980s (Macintosh 128 and 512 and SE30s) that we could just pick up with one hand and cart all around the house with the keyboard in your other hand!

Our son played games on them and learned his ABCs with Sesame Street sitting on my lap with one of these. When we finally switched to buying PCs I called myself bi-platform and missed the friendly interface of the Macs (no click and drag, no easy close etc.) As the years passed I noticed how much PCs began to operate like Macs and realized that we had come full circle. While we don't have a Mac in our house today, we all have I-Pods and I never go anywhere without mine.

I worked in a school system program that used these early Macs to bring individual school data on a user-friendly computer to non-techie people (school administrators) at a time when the only computers in a school were PCs for uploading and downloading DOS files. These administrators could then analyze their own school data using MS Works instead of pouring over reams of computer sheets from the mainframe every month. Having these computers and user-friendly software revolutionized how our huge school system used data. It made principals responsible for their data. I call that a big deal!


Thank you Steve Jobs!

 

[Experiment_626]

Forgot to mention that on the morning following Jobs' passing, I was watching the CBS Early Show news program. They did a story on Jobs, naturally, and showed photos of him in his younger days -- including a photo that looked suspiciously familiar. Yes, it was definitely a shot of the "Not-Steve Jobs, Not-Steve-Wozniak" figure from Spaceship Earth. I think someone at CBS must have done a search and not have had (or taken) the time to make sure each was what it appeared to be. There was certainly no indication in the story that the photo was anything other than a picture of a young Steve Jobs. It was on the screen for maybe five seconds.

And it was clearly shot with flash!

Scott

 

[Johnpush]

That looks really cool. Great job.