Apple Marks One-Year Anniversary of Steve Jobs' Death

[speedyvespa]

Funny, I went for breakfast at French Meadow bakery in Minneapolis yesterday, and this was the placeholder they gave me when I ordered.

It's no small thing that Steve Jobs did. I have 5 Apple devices, not because I'm an Apple fanboy, but because they are beautifully designed, with an obsessive attention to detail. I think naysayers sometimes don't get that. They have by way of subtle degrees over the last 7 years, changed my life. Before I started buying Apple products, technology was sometimes useful, sometimes irritating, often a great concept but a bad conception; mostly overstating its claims and under delivering; marketing triumphs masking reality disasters.

Steve Jobs changed that, and his products changed our lives. You buy an Apple product and it does what you expect it to, and I don't care if Apple maps shows you a squashed Statue Of Liberty - if it wasn't for the iPhone, we wouldn't be complaining about the minor faults in mobile communication devices.

I hope that the current Apple board remember this above all else. It's a shame that this clip didn't use the full quote, because the compare and contrast against PCs is what makes Apple products so special:

"It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough. It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing, and nowhere is that more true than in these post-PC devices."

If PC or Samsung fans are reading this... do you honestly, really, believe in your heart of hearts that Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Samsung etc have it in their DNA to change the world like Steve Jobs did?

I love Apple products because they only care about technology as far as it serves the human experience. Everything else is technology for technology's sake.

 

[iMichael!]

RIP Steve.

 

[k995]

Sorry, but I think the iPhone did change the world. You need to think about the full impact of this product on america and the world and you'll see the truth of it.

This one product (alone) is Steve's legacy to the world.

Sorry the iphone introduction wont be but a tiny blimp in the USA (let alone the world) history.

It simply made some tasks people do with the phone a bit easier.

 

[tarsins]

I'll never forget the date of his passing because he died on my 50th birthday. He was only a few years older than me and I feel he had so much more to give the world.

 

[jacobj]

Get a grip of yourself man... He's not a God. Yeah he was a genius - but smart people come and go. It was sad, but you never knew him, why are you crying?

Check this:

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A lack of sentimentality is not necessarily a good thing.

Don't assume that my emotion regarding SJ means that I lack any when it comes to the suffering of millions. Please do feel free to elaborate on what you do for those millions other than patronise others with references to their suffering. I am keen to understand the actions you believe acceptable and to know wether I live up to them. I am assuming that you are not like the self-righteous press that make reference to the pain of others only to put people down. That would make you a very pathetic individual


SJ wasa once in a generation character that needed all the others around him to succeed. However sometimes the input one person gives is enought to accelerate everyone and i believe he was such a person.

 

[xbjllb]

Guess he wasn't the ONLY problem at Apple.

 

[Gwenog]

For those like me who were too sad or too busy to give a respectable amount of time to viewing the lovely Apple memorial video that fades into Tim Cook's message on the day, have a look on YouTube. That Wayne Gretzky statement -- very easy to say, TOTALLY tough to carry out. Thank you Steve.

 

[xanagu]

R.I.H Steve