Steve Jobs is dead at 56
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What he really worried me was that the local Apple store, not a small one, didn't show any signs of sorrow. Don't get me wrong, it's not like those people know Steve Jobs but shouldn't there be any sign of sorrow, seeing that it's the founder of their company?
The whole Apple ethos is about advancment and not being retrospective. I'm sure Steve Jobs wouldn't want his staff to be moping around, he'd want them out there pushing the latest iPhone 4S.
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I'll add in my thoughts here too. Currently abroad so typing this on my iPhone - Jobs' impact in this respect is fairly obvious as a few years ago I wouldn't really have been able to do this. Whether you're an Apple fanboy or not (I wouldn't personally say I am) his impact on modern living has been remarkable.
RIP Steve.
RIP Steve.
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I can't believe the death of one of the greatest genius salient in the technology world for his epoch-making inventions led to the release of successors commonly known as current portable devices we started to own in recent years... And he had such a strong passion that he never gave up in his way of development of new devices in spite of failures on declining sells.
And I saw a news saying that a presentation of a nobel prize had been rejected because of the death of a distinguished scientist who were supposed to be bestowed the award... perhaps was that Steve that was to get the prize?
Rest in peace and the world lost a great talent again.
And I saw a news saying that a presentation of a nobel prize had been rejected because of the death of a distinguished scientist who were supposed to be bestowed the award... perhaps was that Steve that was to get the prize?
Rest in peace and the world lost a great talent again.
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Steve Jobs was the Albert Einstein of our generation.
May he rest in awesomenessicityableness.
BTW Jobs, thank you for my Macbook Pro, my iPod Touch, my dad's Macbook Pro, my dad's iPod, my dad's iPhone(s), my sister's Macbook Pro, my sister's iPod Touch, my mom's iMac, my mom's iPod Nano, and our family's TimeCapsule.
May he rest in awesomenessicityableness.
BTW Jobs, thank you for my Macbook Pro, my iPod Touch, my dad's Macbook Pro, my dad's iPod, my dad's iPhone(s), my sister's Macbook Pro, my sister's iPod Touch, my mom's iMac, my mom's iPod Nano, and our family's TimeCapsule.
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Yeah, RIP Steve Jobs, but Einstein he wasn't, seriously
?!!Sorry, it's a shame the man has died, and he was obviously a keen businessman, but lets not go over-board - the people that worked for him designed and developed the actual products you are all so keen on.
If they want to do something to honour him, they should resurect the Hi-Fi music that Apple so happily crucified in the name of market share, and start offering uncompressed Audio for download on iTunes (don't give me that lossless c***)... that would be the only important thing Apple have done in the past 11 years as far as I'm concerned.
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I'm not an appleoholic however I have an ipod, my brother an ipad and my dad an iphone. Apple have led the way in changing computers and technology from something that was a grey box in the corner, into something that you wanted to see.
RIP Steve Jobs.
RIP Steve Jobs.
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Minus changing the face of the cell phone market. Completely.
Jobs defined what most of us consider the typical computing experience. If you think lossless audio (which FLAC is) would be the biggest thing Apple and he have done in the past decade, I think you've not given this enough thought.
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Great minds are not limited by their resources when they choose to Think Different.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven dont want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Lifes change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford University Commencement Speech
Steve was among the greatest of American innovators brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.
By building one of the planets most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity. By making computers personal and putting the internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun. And by turning his talents to storytelling, he has brought joy to millions of children and grownups alike. Steve was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was his last. Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world.
The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steves success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to Steves wife Laurene, his family, and all those who loved him.
- Barack Obama
By building one of the planets most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity. By making computers personal and putting the internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun. And by turning his talents to storytelling, he has brought joy to millions of children and grownups alike. Steve was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was his last. Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world.
The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steves success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to Steves wife Laurene, his family, and all those who loved him.
- Barack Obama
R.I.P.
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Really? define my typical computing experience, and how Apple or Steve jobs invented that, or how I listen to music, or how I use the telephone, and how Jobs may have invented those? That's a rhetorical question by the way, out of respect for peoples feelings towards the man in this thread, I'm not going to go on about such things, but with regards to lossless Audio, I think you missed my point..
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The music industry damaged itself by brickwalling almost every major album released in the past ten years. No amount of lossless compression can change that. Besides, the main use for music purchased online is for listening on portable players, and I honestly doubt you'd be able to pick out the difference between 256kbs AAC and FLAC on a bus. If I want FLAC, I buy a CD from Amazon. 
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Steve Jobs was massively influential, Einstein calibre probably not, but he did manage to change the face of technology forever.
Apple computers became a huge source of learning when they became popular in schools, I remember typing away on a green screen Macintosh or playing Oregon Trail as far back as Kindergarten. Pixar changed how kids movies were made by shifting to an entirely computer based form of animation. The iPod changed the way all of us listened to music through a personal music device. The iPhone changed the way we look at phones and launched the demand for the non-business use smartphones. And the iPad brought us into the world of tablet computing again.
Apple has done more to shape the world then many people care to give credit too. Sure someone else would have eventually came up with all this stuff if Apple didn't exist. But they didn't and Apple managed to take very expensive and business orientated products and make the obtainable and usable by the average person.
I am tremendously sadden that Jobs passed away. It's not like when an entertainment icon passes away, what we lose with that is their films, music, art, sport or whatever (although it is still sad when we lose someone like that). When someone like Jobs passes away we lose someone brilliant and someone who drives us forward with technology. I'd feel the same way if Bill Gates passed, or Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Jerry Yang, David Filo and so on. Great entertainers are easy to come by, great thinkers are not.
Apple computers became a huge source of learning when they became popular in schools, I remember typing away on a green screen Macintosh or playing Oregon Trail as far back as Kindergarten. Pixar changed how kids movies were made by shifting to an entirely computer based form of animation. The iPod changed the way all of us listened to music through a personal music device. The iPhone changed the way we look at phones and launched the demand for the non-business use smartphones. And the iPad brought us into the world of tablet computing again.
Apple has done more to shape the world then many people care to give credit too. Sure someone else would have eventually came up with all this stuff if Apple didn't exist. But they didn't and Apple managed to take very expensive and business orientated products and make the obtainable and usable by the average person.
I am tremendously sadden that Jobs passed away. It's not like when an entertainment icon passes away, what we lose with that is their films, music, art, sport or whatever (although it is still sad when we lose someone like that). When someone like Jobs passes away we lose someone brilliant and someone who drives us forward with technology. I'd feel the same way if Bill Gates passed, or Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Jerry Yang, David Filo and so on. Great entertainers are easy to come by, great thinkers are not.
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Well, I am going to answer your question because your attitude is crap and I"m going to ignore you trying to be clever, because you clearly can't see it.
The modern use of a GUI in an OS was popularized by Jobs and Wozniak. I'm assuming use an operating system that was developed in the past 20 years, correct? Otherwise props for posting to a website only using a command line interface. Not to mention how many people learned to type on those old IIe computers.
Do you have a smart phone? Does it have a touch screen? Apple's development of the iPhone created the smart phone market as it is known now. Before that, we had wonderful Windows Mobile devices on resistive touch screens, which if you've never used one of those before, are clunky and nothing something you can just nicely use with your fingers. The use of the icons, the concept of a bottom bar docks, etc, as been emulated by various skins and mobile OS's.
Mp3 players before the iPod consisted mostly of small (32meg) flash based players with somewhat clunky interfaces, no easy means to convert CDs to Mp3 formats, and generally less than intuitive controls schemes. If you've used some of the old Rio players, you'd know what I am talking about. The iPod, paired with iTunes and the music management setups Apple had more or less directed the development of the PMP market for the past decade.
FYI, I've owned one Apple product. Ever. I don't much care for OS X and I've been using PC's since the 80's. So don't play the bias card. The man was a visionary in that he understood what people wanted and brought it to market. And made it work, which all the other companies never managed to do.
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R.I.P. Steven Paul Jobs.
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I think you are referring to this - the guy died in the time between the Nobel prize people deciding he was a winner, and actually giving him the award. He gets to keep it by the way, since he was alive when the decision was made.
On topic - sad to hear of Jobs' death. Although I'm not a particular fan of the i... products, you have to respect what he has done for technology. I still remember playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? on an Apple computer in 2nd grade.
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One thing that is really annoying me is all the people saying Apple will fail now since he's gone. Didn't he step down a few months ago?
It really is amazing the type of following he had considering the way most CEO's are looked at these days.
One thing that is really annoying me is all the people saying Apple will fail now since he's gone. Didn't he step down a few months ago?
It really is amazing the type of following he had considering the way most CEO's are looked at these days.
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RIP Steve.
I'm an old SE user from back in the eighties, and I still remember perfectly what a computer interface was like before you and Wozniak showed the world what could be done to that.
Never got into the iPod and iTunes world, but more recently I abandoned a long, nice relationship with Nokia's cellphones to buy my first iPhone. And I felt the same all over again. There's no looking back.
I'm an old SE user from back in the eighties, and I still remember perfectly what a computer interface was like before you and Wozniak showed the world what could be done to that.
Never got into the iPod and iTunes world, but more recently I abandoned a long, nice relationship with Nokia's cellphones to buy my first iPhone. And I felt the same all over again. There's no looking back.
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My Dad passed from Pancreatic Cancer a few years ago. He went from a hale and hearty personality to a shrivelled shell in a few months. Diagnosed in August, dead in November. Photoshopped or not, those pictures remind me of how my Dad looked in his final weeks.
I have been a Macaddict for decades, so this does make me sad. Jobs pulled Apple from the verge of bankruptcy many a time. In the words of Sculley: "He was arrogant, outrageous, intense, demanding - a perfectionist. He was also immature, fragile, sensitive, vulnerable. He was dynamic, visionary, charismatic, yet often stubborn, uncompromising, and downright impossible." (Odyssey)
The world will miss you, Cupertino Steve.
Posted from my iPhone, while travelling.
I have been a Macaddict for decades, so this does make me sad. Jobs pulled Apple from the verge of bankruptcy many a time. In the words of Sculley: "He was arrogant, outrageous, intense, demanding - a perfectionist. He was also immature, fragile, sensitive, vulnerable. He was dynamic, visionary, charismatic, yet often stubborn, uncompromising, and downright impossible." (Odyssey)
The world will miss you, Cupertino Steve.
Posted from my iPhone, while travelling.
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He really was an inspirational person, and just in his memory, i created a tribute, please watch it. I even used one of the songs from Gran Turismo 5 that seemed to fit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_z4f2LrrhQ
Here's to the crazy one.
We'll miss you Steve.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_z4f2LrrhQ
Here's to the crazy one.
We'll miss you Steve.
