Steve Jobs has passed away :(

[Plane Sailing]

Yep, let's keep this thread respectful thanks. Other threads can exist for discussing other issues.

 

[Rune]

Xerox created the personal computer but they went nowhere with it since they only tried to sell to buisness.

Not true. Xerox created the graphical user interface (GUI). Personal computers (including apple computers) were on the market for years previous.

The first personal computer to use a GUI was, of course, the Mac.

And, to bring this back to the topic...a brilliant mind has passed; the world will be dimmer for his absence, but forever altered by his presence, nonetheless.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Take it somewhere else, Relique. There are plenty of other threads where you can express your distaste.

How am I expressing my distaste?

I may not like him (from the pov of someone who only sees his corporate ideology) or his company, but I respect the guy. I'm not going to sit around morning him, like everyone else since from what I understand, he would have not either. He lived every day like it was his last and did not mourn the fact that he was dying nor did he give up and start feeling sorry for himself. Instead, he kept working, he kept living, and kept enjoying each day of his life until the last.

Unlike many people, I hope Apple wasn't just Steve Jobs, because I hate the very thought that Technology will suffer because one man died. Instead, I like to beleive that apple was a sum of it's parts since then technology would not suffer. I want Tim Cook to stand up and say, "Steve Jobs made apple a house hold name (and help popularized technology), but Apple wasn't only Steve Jobs. Although he may be dead, he will remian in our memory and we will continue to innovate in his honor." More importantly I want people to believe it instead of thinking, "Steve Jobs is dead. Game over."

So do not take my tearless eyes, refusal to mour,n and my celebration as disdain for his life. Do not take my desire of seeing what Apple makes next and my desire for Tim Cooks to step up as my saying "Steve Jobs doesn't matter in the greater scheme of things. Apple Sucks. Hate hate hate Grr!". Instead, take it as acknowledgement that life is a series of cycles and once one ends the next begins. Take it as a hope that the next cycle for Apple (and Technology in general) is both not the last and not one of decline since I am looking towards the future of Tech and hoping that it is greater then the past.

 

[Kzach]

So do not take my tearless eyes, refusal to mour,n and my celebration as disdain for his life.

Dear Buddha, dude, just stop already.

 

[Fast Learner]

Jobs is one of the few public figures who, to my surprise, is part of the core of who I am. The only other celebrity death that hit me as strongly was Fred Rogers.

I deeply identified with the Jobs who co-founded Apple out of his garage, the Jobs who insisted that people do even better work than the best they thought they could, and the Jobs who was sure enough of his understanding of people and the world that he could know in his heart that his vision of what could be was right, even when it sounded wrong to almost everyone else. In my life I've been a very pale imitation of those Jobses but have always wanted to be less pale and have often strived to do so.

I realized tonight that part of my sorrow is that I always wanted to create something that was great enough that Steve Jobs would admire it and that confirmation of that admiration is forever lost. Nonetheless, I've never felt as inspired to create that thing as I do at this moment, and so look the out, world, prepare to be dented.

Thank you, Steve.

 

[Janx]

That vision was what made him not merely a marketer. He defined the goals of Apple. How should a product look like, what should it do?

I think that is a relatively well-defined job. It's not an "engineering" job, as it's not an engineer's job to decide whether we need to build a racing car or a .50 rifle or an iPad. An engineer's job is to build one. (And sometimes explain why it can't be made.)

Your definition is not like any Good engineer I've ever worked with. I wouldn't want such a man who couldn't see what the opportunity was and propose a solution himself.

I think Steve Jobs would agree with me. Apple is filled with engineers who don't just build what they are told like IBM Men. More of the world's inventions were made by men who had a vision, and not by men who followed orders.

As long as that's true, Apple should be fine. Steve didn't invent the mouse or the GUI or the MP3 player. Somebody did, and as long as Apple capitalizes on bringing the best of those ideas into products, they'll be good.

I'm watching Pirates of Silicon Valley (recoreded on DVR, got interrupted). It definitely shows Woz as the just builds stuff with no clue to its value versus Jobs seeing its true potential. Maybe Woz was like that. Mark Zuckerberg sure wasn't.

 

[GreyLord]

Dear Buddha, dude, just stop already.

Wasn't Jobs Buddhist?

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

It was never clear what engineering contribution Steve Jobs made to the company. Did he write any code? Did he design any circuit boards?

He's credited on a few hundred patents. And many while he was CEO.

 

[ssampier]

Thank you Mr. Jobs for popularizing the home computer and trying to make things easy. While I never completely got the Apple computer bug, I do like the iPod.

Further, thanks for bringing Pixar movies to the world.