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Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs Dies

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15193922

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-dead_n_997223.html?ncid=webmail1

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

I've got quite a bit of disdain for Apple products, but he wasn't a bad fella. Seems he had a pretty good head on his shoulders. I'll raise a glass to him. RIP, Dude.

I agree with ninjabob don't like the company but can't help respecting him as an individual, just heard he bought Pixar for ten million dollars and sold it to disney for something like eighty billion dollars.

RIP Steve.

See the bigger version of the picture here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15195444

I'm sorry but that is just sad behavior.

Lets be honest:

There were pc's before the apple mac.

There were mp3 players before the iPod.

There were mobile phones before the iPhone.

There were tablet pc's before the iPad.

Where Jobs genius lay was in taking what had come before and apply strict design and style criteria, then marketing it and selling it back to you as though it was something new.

I do really admire the guy because of what he managed with the marketing strategies that sold the masses technology they had already bought in other formats.

RIP Steve. That said...

Not to dishonor the dead, but he was a prick to work with according to those who worked with him. Many would avoid being in the same elevator, as he would randomly fire people for looking at him the wrong way.  He put on a good face, but was more than shrewd.

And no, he didn't invent the mouse. Xerox did. Just sayin'

Quote from: meekon5 on October 06, 2011, 06:54:42 PM
Lets be honest:

There were pc's before the apple mac.

There were mp3 players before the iPod.

There were mobile phones before the iPhone.

There were tablet pc's before the iPad.

Where Jobs genius lay was in taking what had come before and apply strict design and style criteria, then marketing it and selling it back to you as though it was something new.

I do really admire the guy because of what he managed with the marketing strategies that sold the masses technology they had already bought in other formats.

This is true, RIP or not, what you are saying is a fact. Apple rarely, if ever, came out with anything new. Even the original Lisa and Mac GUI user interfaces with ripoffs of a concept stolen from Xerox PARC (Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center); the problem for Xerox was that they didn't know what they had and that it would change the face of personal computing. They had a billion dollar idea and gave away the store to both Apple and Microsoft. Silly them!

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on October 07, 2011, 03:20:11 AM

This is true, RIP or not, what you are saying is a fact. Apple rarely, if ever, came out with anything new. Even the original Lisa and Mac GUI user interfaces with ripoffs of a concept stolen from Xerox PARC (Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center); the problem for Xerox was that they didn't know what they had and that it would change the face of personally computing. They had a billion dollar idea and gave a way the store to both Apple and Microsoft. Silly them!

Xerox PARC I haven't heard anything from them for years (they are now PARC floated as an independent company a few years ago).

I have a particular interest in e-ink and flexible screens, and was amazed that Xerox PARC didn't advance work it was doing about twenty years ago on both subjects.

If they had we could all be using Minority Report style data sheets now.


But then if the Mayan civilization hadn't of collapsed we would have been an interstellar society by now (according to Sagan).

I feel I have to preface this by saying it is sad that a person died, but

it seemed to me that the only thing he revolutionized was the way a business can use the court system to tie up a competitor's product.

He was indeed a good salesman and he did a great job a revitalizing apple.

Quote from: Landshark on October 07, 2011, 04:31:02 PM

it seemed to me that the only thing he revolutionized was the way a business can use the court system to tie up a competitor's product.

But at least some of them are fighting fire with fire and doing the same thing to apple.

Too soon ?

http://memebase.com/2011/10/06/internet-memes-no-iphone/

http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/10/06/im-going-to-miss-you-steve-pic/

gave me a giggle

Quote from: Ninjabob27 on October 07, 2011, 11:04:47 PM
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/10/06/im-going-to-miss-you-steve-pic/

gave me a giggle

Yep...me too...nice find!
Thankee

Thanks to him tech companies are buying patents like missiles which they use to sue each other back to the stoneages over ridiculous details. If you want to bring a new product to mainstream customers you are going through a minefield of patents and even if you reach the end with both legs and you Johnson still attached they will throw you back in there. It has always been bad, but he made it so much worse.

I don't give a rat's ass about not saying bad things about dead people. He was a very undude person and worked very hard to make this an undude world.

May the 4s be with him...