Steve Jobs: 1955-2011 86
Apple’s board today announced that Apple co-founder and Chairman of the Board Steve Jobs has passed away:
We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.
Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.
His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.
Jobs founded Apple in 1976 along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. In his time at Apple, he redefined personal computing multiple times in ways that the industry is still coming to grasps with. His vision will impact the direction of consumer electronics for decades to come.
Along with our friends over at TiPb, we want to extend our sincerest condolences to the family of Mr. Jobs and express our deep gratitude for everything he has done for the technology industry. The world would have been a very different place without Steve Jobs, and it will never be the same because of him.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
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R.I.P. sir
Woah...didn't see that one coming. Sorry to see tech genius leave us.
Rest in peace my man.....changed the world as we know it
A Legend. A visionary. A pioneer.
Along with a select few he changed the world.
Why couldn't cancer take iTunes instead. RIP Steve Jobs.
how he die?
We know what happened to HP when Hewlett and Packard were no longer around.
RIP Steve.
Woz is still around.
Well, isn't it ironic that Steve Jobs use to work for HP? I think what he accomplished at both the technology and social level are absolutely outstanding -- his accomplishments allowed many to transcend technology and to express themselves not just to those within their proximity -- but he enhanced and augmented expression (through technology) for an individual to the world. Still, at the same time I think we need to know and recognize Steve for who he was -- an amazing human being -- not deity. Just trying to keep it real...
oh man, that is shocking.
a genius that leaves the world.
Thanks for everything Steve!
RIP.
The world loses a salesman.
*shrugs*
Let me know when there is some actual news. Obviously loss of life is never good but cue the outlandish superlatives, fabrication and hero worship. The Apple PR statement above says it all. The world is immeasurably better? Time to get a grip methinks.
**** you, sir.
There's no need for that.
No there is a need for it.
+100
there's always a bad guy in the crowd.
You're gonna get a lot of flames for putting it that way obviously, but I and many others can understand what you're getting at regarding the excessive coverage that will no doubt surround this nonetheless unfortunate event.
agreed. obviously, he's a tech genius--no one can argue that point. but personally, i reserve my superlatives for people in the "Giving Pledge" list.
You sir are an a-hole. I'd suggest they ban you but that would only deny you the ridicule you shall receive and so richly deserve. The man was a visionary, a business genius, and a man that along with about 7 or 8 others in the world that truly lead the world into a technology savvy and tech centric future.
As Steve Job's once said to a critic, "what have you done that's so great."
Your an ****
Someone needs to put this pig down.
This man, Steve Jobs, has achieved more in his 56 years than your family tree has or ever will achieve.
Have you taken a second to think about what the man has done? Just because Apple products may not be your thing, it doesn't change what is has done for society. Yes the world IS immeasurably better.
And damn you cancer.
What a **** whole! People like you are why I don't like people.
Although I'm not a fan of Apple products, I have the deepest respect for Steve. He should have had longer, but he did use his time well. Farewell.
What can you say about Steve Jobs? He's probably one of the most successful CEO's in history. Apple, and in MANY ways, Microsoft would not be what they are today without his vision and drive.
He also has to go down as one of the greatest sales people in history. Who else could sell five dollar bills for ten dollars and have people lined up out the door for the opportunity?
He also was a dad. CEO's can be replaced, even good ones. But tonight his children are spending their first night without their dad, and my prayers go out for them.
Meanwhile Leo Apotheker keeps right on kicking.
R.I.P.
Rip Mr Jobs...
A very, very sad day, for sure.
His fight with pancreatic cancer showed just how togh and determined he was, and he prevailed much longer than most others have.
Deepest respect, and, a huge loss for us all.
Yes. I've lost several members of my family to cancer (and sadly other things too) but i'm never not moved when cancer of some sort takes a life or the story of someone that can survive a cancer. Sadly and coincidentally, a close family friend passed yesterday morning after a long battle with lung cancer.
I'm so sorry to hear that; my sincerest condolences...
As mentioned by some one else earlier, I wasn't an Apple fan, but I know where credit is due, and and we all owe Steve Jobs a lot for what he did for the technology world. R.I.P.
I only own an old ipod and 2 apple tv's but you can feel his influence in all modern tech. From the simple mouse to our beloved webos inteface. If not for his vision tech would be far less user friendly. Your shadow is huge, rest in piece, you will be missed
If not for him we would all be living in a Microsoft world, how boring. Thanks Steve for all the great stuff, RIP.
...if not for him, Microsoft world would be SO MUCH more boring...
Sad day. RIP Steve Jobs. Your legacy will live on forever!
What's amazing about Steve Jobs is that he built what old Palm OS fans had always wanted: a TX with a cell radio. Not only did he succeed at this, but he made it so simple to use and fashionable, that all of a sudden everybody around me was using a mobile computer. It has been quite a revolution indeed.
Want it or not Palm lives on even inside of Apple. No surprise Apple hired some of Palm's best engineers.
Steve will live on in the palms of our hands. (Hopefully Palm will live on inside a Kindle someday...)
Thanks for making my dreams of mobile technology true, Steve!
tk 421 you are absolutely right, you really know about this things, in fact windows took the Apple tech, Apple took Palm Tech.
I still use a TX.
Great CEO Steve Jobs not for Gadgets, for Computers and for Cinema support and development.
We would like to had him in Palm, thats for true.
RIP
Wow... Figured he was not in good condition and wouldn't have too long but did not envision it coming this soon. He resigned as CEO just about 6 weeks ago.
I have never been a huge fan of Apple products (I don't like their restrictiveness) but have always admired Apple products for their solid design (and too many tech products suffer from poor design), style (see design comment), high quality and taste. Apple was not usually first to enter any particular market, but they always made a statement when they did field a product in what was a new category for them - never giving in to conventional wisdom of what was and was not possible.
Steve Jobs has had an undeniably huge impact on this industry and will be missed.
My thoughts go out to his family and friends. They can take comfort in the fact that, unlike so many who aspire to greatness, Jobs not only aimed to change the world and make it a better place but he actually did.
The ironic thing is that it's really only their iOS products which are restrictive. The MacOS itself is just as open as Windows is... or at least no more restrictive than Windows is.
It's even MORE ironic when you learn more about his hacker past...
Out of respect for the dead, I won't make this too personal, but how is MAC open?
1. you can't buy a MAC from anyone but apple.
2. You can't add RAM, drives, mice? Almost anything, unless you buy it from apple.
3. there's no real OS that runs on MAC hardware but MAC OS [other than virtually.]
So I ask again, how is MAC an open platform?
That's hardware open-ness (or lack thereof), which is pretty much undeniable, you are correct. nickfifteen is talking about operating system openness, though, I think, which is the only real way to compare it properly to windows (just an OS, not hardware). For example:
1. No OS registration or any such hoops to jump through - just put in the CD and you're golden (ignoring Lion for the moment)
2. Based on Unix, which is far more open in terms of functionality and source than Windows.
On the other hand, it's more tricky to change the interface than with Windows (not that it's easy with Windows). I'd say OS-wise, macOS comes out on top, but neither hold a candle to any of the open-source OSs, naturally.
Anyway, point is, Hardware closed, OS open-ish, and since I haven't posted anywhere else in this thread, rest in peace Steve Jobs.
Also, I just realized all your points are incorrect. Whoops.
1. Only Apple makes macs, but you can buy them from most retailers.
2. You can add any drive or mouse (or keyboard, or ...), not from apple. RAM too, but you have to be just a little careful.
3. Completely incorrect - any OS can run on Mac hardware. Very easy to put Windows on (Apple gives you all the drivers bundled up, even), not too difficult to get Linux running either, nothing virtual.
If you like what you have, there's no need for you to buy a mac, but I would recommend actually learning about them.
#3 Except for those of us with PowerPC based MacIntoshes.
Very good point.
Most of that is untrue
1. Yes you can only buy a mac from apple, because they make the hardware. You are correct on that one.
2. I bought memory from the web, took the screws off my macbook pro and upgraded my memory. i use an ibm mouse.
on my imac i bought a new drive at best buy and installed it. so i dont know what your talking about.
3. This is only true of the old PowerPC machines, and that was only because windows did not have a powerpc version. But you can install windows on any of the new intel machines. That is pretty much how bootcamp works, you have two installations.
Your probably just got this backward, it is true that osx will not install on non apple hardware.
MAC sits on top of linux, just like webos. osx is about as open as windows.
One thing i love is that you dont have the annoyance of "Genuine Advantage" . If you have a disk with osx on it you dont have to worry about having to find your serial number to install it. I dont know how many times i had to reinstall windows on a work machine, and the serial number on the computer will not work with the windows install disk i had.
All good points, except it sits of top of Unix, not linux (no linux kernel), whereas WebOS does sit on top of linux.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF STEVE JOBS: "Twenty steps forward, five steps back."
(As in, no one of our age has had put so total many steps forward, so many steps backwards, nor had as many net gain steps forward as did Steve Jobs.)
As much as you may not care too much for Jobs, you can't deny all that he has done to change the world. Frankly, the REAL revolution that came from the 60's Cultural Revolution wasn't so much all the anti-war political protestors and drug-fueled crazies, but of all the "social misfits" tinkering with electronics (who were certainly fueled by drugs). The fact that we're living in a world where the fruits of their labors control our very lives, versus the general nothingness that came out of the political-based "revolutionaries" (despite their assumption that the "REAL" revolution was in their hands), is more than enough proof that Jobs, Wozniak, Bushnell, Gates and all the other "misfits" were the real revolutionaries.
So here's to one of the biggest revolutionary of our time, who did a lot to form the world in his own image simply through sheer force of will.
This is so full of ignorance it's mind-boggling. We're living in a world profoundly different because of the 60s political revolutionaries (civil rights, end of Vietnam war, women's movement, GLBT rights, environmental movement mean anything to you?!) Suggest you take a political science and history course--and make sure the professor isn't a wingnut conservative.
As far as Jobs' death, it is truly unfortunate. But we should also be mindful of the myths inherent in the Great Man theory of history that Americans are so infatuated with....(roll eyes).
No, you're right, I'll own up to it; someone else also called me out on this elsewhere, so I've since had to rephrase and clarify myself:
There were two revolutions in the 60's. One IN the 60's and one OF the 60's. The examples you listed were IN the 60's. Jobs and other technology gurus (as well as others on top of that) were part of the revolution OF the 60's. That is to say, the system that the revolutions in the 60's created allowed for people like Jobs to be who they became; had it not been for the revolution in the 60's, there wouldn't have been a revolution of the 60's, so obviously the world owes a great load of debt to what those revolutionaries in the 60's did.
Perfect example, while everyone was talking about Jobs' death, people glossed over another important death that happened the same day: Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, who did a lot to help end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama and in this country. Now it's not so much that I forgot about people like Reverend Shuttlesworth and his compatriot's actions in the 60's, but it's more like... when I think of the term "revolutionary" I don't necessarily think of people like Shuttlesworth and Martin Luther King, Jr. It's not to say that they weren't revolutionary, but like, there is a certain connotation of "revolutionary" which--in my eyes--has a negative slant to it. Similar words and names which I associate with "revolutionary" include "anarchistic", "Lenin", "disorderly", "Mao", "mutinous", "Kim Il-Sung", "subversive"... all terms and people which have negative connotations (in the US at least) which I have no desire to attach to people like Shuttlesworth and King. Instead, the words I prefer to see them as are "visionaries", "radicals", "activists", "protestors"... terms with generally more positive undertones. Of course what they did was "revolutionary" and they had led a "revolution", but I don't see them as "revolutionaries" akin to the likes of Mao, Lenin, Castro, Kim, etc. (semantics, oy).
More to the point, I really spoke about the kind of people who considered themselves as "revolutionaries" and in turn inspired the Beatles' song "Revolution 1". The Beatles recognized that there was people like Shuttlesworth and King, and then there were just people being jerks in the name of "revolution", which thus inspired lyrics like "We all want to change the world / But when you talk about destruction / Don't you know you can count me out". So yes, while there were activists in the 60's who wanted to change the world (and in turn did change it so that "misfits" like Jobs would get somewhere where they couldn't go before the 60's), there were also plenty of so-called "revolutionaries" who simply wanted to just be jerks to everyone in the name of "revolution". Thus "the REAL revolution was with people like Jobs", or the clearer "there were two revolutions, the IN and the OF, where the INs reshaped the world for the OFs".
I thought maybe my original post implied this, but reading it again, boy was I off the mark. Sorry 'bout not being clearer the first time, and I hope THIS post clears things up!
Respect to those that have passed from cancer, those that survive cancer and those that continue to fight the devastating diseases that are cancer.
This is sad, sad news. R.I.P. Steve Jobs.
rip
Wow. Sad.
RIP ... When Steve announced his retirement, it was obvious he knew the end was near. The industry has lost a technical visionary and unbelievable marketeer. Condolences to his wife, children and other family members.
Just a thought for all to consider:
Courage is pursuing, when the fear is greatest.
Greatness is achieving, after failing many times.
Innovation is daring to not take anything at face value, but, truly trying to understand it to see what makes it tick to it can be utilized to its fullest.
Creativity is the art of making something out of nothing, and results in something different with every single person - there is no one "right" answer, just good, unique solutions.
I didn't like how he did stuff, and his policies, but, Steve Jobs definitely embodied all of the above.
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Apple fan or not, you can't deny this man's impact on the tech world. Made other companies better as well.
RIP Steve Jobs. You did great things that continue to leave a mark on the world.
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Steve Jobs
Once an underdog to a rival that many saw as the dominant Pit Bull. Then found himself - thru success - as the new Goliath amongst so many Davids. But no matter what one sees of these 2 men (good or bad), they brought a vision of forwardness, creativity, and resourcefulness.
As Einstein said so eloquently ... "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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I can only say "Thank you, Steve". And anybody that's a fan of Android, WebOS, Windows Phone, innovation, style, or just cool **** gadgets should be saying the same.
Wow.....I get downranked for hailing a guy who's changed the world and partially helped make WebOS possible.
Stay classy, Precentral.
companies become complacent and big and forget about innovating. lessons to be learned here. apple got ahead because they had a great innovator/ceo not a big beaurocacy in management.
Palm before apple iphone - palm had the market, but lost innovation
Windows vista and mac - mac made huge gains at PC's expense due to microsoft's blunder. (until windows 7 helped balance things out). But windows was the vision of chairman gates who had a clear vision from the top and got the job done.
Kmart before walmart - all of a sudden a huge giant displaced them - Sam Walton, gets the credit
Lycos, excite, webcrawler, yahoo - all ahead but displaced by newcomer google. And even google is really larry and sergei innovating that drives them forward
myspace and newcomer facebook - really the product of zuckerburg's innovation
Not sure what lies ahead for apple - but likely this one man made the difference. Not sure apple will be able to sustain the amazing gains he made - very much doubt it.
CEO-Top maangement has to have a clear vision of their goals and effectively communicate that to the staff and work VERY HARD themselves (rolling-up literally their sleeves) at getting those goals accomplished. HP didn't have that and webos faltered.
While I'm not an Apple fan, I had a great respect for Steve Jobs. My prayers go out to his family. R.I.P. Steve Jobs, and thank you.
RIP sir.I have drooled over many products of apple.Attention paid to little things in apple's product are a testimony to this man's genius.But sadly cost always kept me away from apple products.
Im not a Apple fan but you cant deny what he did for the tech world without him things would be much different RIP
RIP, Steve Jobs
RIP Steve Jobs & Thank you for being a visionary
I do not like Apple and will probably never have one of their products but I have a huge respect for what Steve Jobs achieved.
A great figure of the industry who manage to put technology in order for end-users.
Thank you and RIP.
Some thought for him family/
RIP Steve Jobs.
Thanks for daring to dream.
And one more thing... thanks for going that step further and making the dream happen.
Great men of history are always polarizing. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that partisan bickering can be found in a thread about the death of a great man. Some will never understand why Steve Jobs is being treated like a great man of history, even royalty by the mainstream press around the world. That is a real pitty for you. The good news is that you do not have to understand why he was a great man for it to be so.
The simple fact is, for all the polarization, we are on the same side whether we know it or not. This community would not have a Pre, Veer, or TouchPad were it not for the man that so many seek to marginalize. It simply would not exist. There would be no PreCentral. There would be no Android as we know it. Computers would be the domain of the rich and powerful as business and enterprise machines. You would not be dictating text messages to your phone, or sending pictures to grandma. You would not be able to operate a piece of tech without reading a 500 page manual. We would not be debating the relative merits of consumer facing operating systems. We all are children of Steve, even those who have disowned him and gone off in a different direction, especially them.
Do not imagine that life gets better for the competitors with a weakened Apple. Most of the industry as we know it survives on iterating the ideas of a small number of visionaries. Steve Jobs was that visionary for our time, no matter what colors of loyalty you bleed.
Send not for whom the bell tolls. It toles for thee.
Very well stated, except, I don't believe Apple has been "weakened".
It will run as he honed it to with out him - he never left any room for doing things any way but his.. that HAS to carry forward with inertia for some time to come, and if they are smart, they will continue to follow his ideology, and the company's manifesto.
As I wrote in my post in the forums, I believe he left behind way more than he ever recieved; its now up to those who have those gifts to use them wisely.
THANK YOU. Most classy responses to go with yours, but a few knuckleheads as always who can't see the forest for the tress.
I'm not an Apple fan but the man has my utmost respect for what he's done. He was Apple.
His legacy will never be forgotten. Someone mentioned that he was the Da Vinci of our modern, technological times. I have to agree. The man was a creative genius and an innovator that set the mobile world on fire. His DNA can even be found in our WebOS platform.
RIP Mr. Jobs. You're off to a better place.
This where Leo should be not Jobs.
I met the man once, for about fifteen minutes. He asked me questions about my business and so inspired me that I went out and doubled its size in a matter of months...
There just aren't that many people like him in the world, he will be missed. My heart goes out to his family and close friends.
goodbye Steve Jobs and thank you. I for one think you did change the world.
A new acquaintance of mine had an interesting response..
"RIP to those workers who perished. Sorry, jobs, i've never cared for you, or your work ethic." w/ link: http://www.christianpost.com/news/steve-jobs-ignored-poisoned-workers-pl...
While I personally won't use Apple stuff (too much control of the hardware, accessories and you gotta convert from your current religion), we owe a lot of our current technological world to Jobs and the improvements his machines forced all the other maunfacturers to meet and exceed. He also gave us Jon Rubenstein, who made webOS great (for a while anyway). I know for a fact I would not have enjoyed working for him based on reports of his locked down, workaholic, slavedriving micromanagement, if he had worked at Palm, it would have been great! Too bad Palm didn't have the cash to hire Jobs when Apple fired him in the 1990s: that TX with a cell radio would be 15 years old by now and on it's way to changing the tech world!!
A man who refuses to meet his own biological father, who happens to be an Arab(Syrian)... was Mr. Jobs ashamed of his own father/grandfather's race? He seemed to have absolutely no problem with his mother who was from a white ultra-conservative family.
Two Arab men(one full Arab and one half-Arab, to be precise) have greated affected the world in the last 20 years. Steve Jobs did it in a good way. Osama bin Laden chose the evil way. The two can't be more far apart. It goes to show you that the path you take in life can lead you in very different directions.
I'm sorry if I refuse to fawn over Steve Jobs and all his business accomplishments. With the mass of wealth he accumulated during his life he spent very little of it (his wealth) helping people that needed it most. Sure he put **** gadgets in the pockets of people that could afford them but where's the Steve Jobs foundation? According to a Fortune Magazine 2010 article after resuming control of Apple in 1997, Jobs eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs.
Being a Buddhist like he was maybe this is a bit of karmic justice????
I will reserve my praise and admiration for people that share my values.
BTW I own a 27" iMac
That is fine, but you dont know what he gave and did not give..
All you can say is he did not donate money publicly. Judging by how protective and private he was about his personal life, it would not surprise me if he did donate privately.
RIP Steve, Thoughts and good energy to your survivng friends and family.
Amazing that even at moments like this, the Internet Assasins are out and trolling in full force. It's tough to get out of Mom's basement, of that I'm sure.
56 years is wayyy too soon; but most people that live to be 100 haven't done one-tenth of what Mr. Jobs accomplished.
Am I missing something? How is dying of cancer discovered 7 years ago "unexpected?"
Also, am I the only one that was rocking out mp3s/videos/camera on my Treo - 4 years before the iphone?
Despite being a huge Apple fan, that was one of the reasons why I stuck with Palm; there was nothing the iPhone could do that my Treo couldn't. The difference however was that enough people DIDN'T know that something like the Treo existed, so when the iPhone came out it was a HUGE deal to them.
Or even more to the point, maybe most people knew the Treo and similar smart phones did exist, but it was just too much for them to wrap their heads around. The iPhone, on the other hand, brought smartphones down to "mere mortals"; considering that people's current phones couldn't do what the iPhone couldn't do wither (copy and paste, etc), the iPhone's down sides weren't an issue to them, so they bought it for the things their current phones DIDN'T.
To which, the iPhone wasn't for those who already had a smart phone, like us Palm Treo users, but for those who didn't but wanted one that they could understand. Thus, the iPhone's continued success.
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