California Nominates Steve Jobs for $1 American Innovation Coin

[davide_eu]

Innovation for what?

For creating a walled garden with proprietary technologies when we had open standards?

It’s a shame!

 

[davide_eu]

The typography on the example is very weak. I really hope the final design does justice to the idea and to Jobs.

Yes, a coin you need i-gloves to touch it and i-glasses to look at it.

 

[SoldOnApple]

Thinking about it some more, Woz did get the ball rolling for Apple. There would be no Apple without Woz. So he probably does deserve his own innovation coin for the first Apple computer, a cheap computer that any computer enthusiasts can use was a big innovation and did lead to everything we take for granted from Apple today. Woz could have started Apple with any other entrepreneur, but Jobs couldn't have started Apple without someone like Woz. Don't get me wrong, Jobs was instrumental to it all, Woz was destined to be just another comfortable engineer for HP, and Jobs was always destined to try some kind of big idea business, that's just the kind of guy he was.

 

[davide_eu]

That's a pretty fair summary of how Jobs innovated. We take it for granted today, that a baby can just pick up and use an iPad, that any kid or adult or elderly person can use it daily with zero or minimal training. But back when Jobs started Apple it was taken for granted that computers were hard to use, and required a lot of learning, and were annoying to use, and you wouldn't let your kids use it unless they were natural boffins. Windows made computers easy to use for work and manageable for browsing and gaming, but Apple was taking it further than that even with the Lisa.

Yes, now kids are passive. They take “an app” (because software was not cool and more important could haven’t registered as a trademark) and play. In the past you had to learn. Yes, it was an exercise.

It’s a shame you consider that guy an innovator…

 

[Sippincider]

They should ask Jony Ive to design it!

It’d be half as thick and cost $3….

 

[samelot628]

Maybe this JOBSCOIN will be the next crypto winner...

 

[ELman]

Is Musk going to be on the Texas coin then?

Texas has a cool space coin

https://www.usmint.gov/american-innovation-1-coin-2025-rolls-and-bags-texas-MASTER_INNOVATIONTX.html

 

[AND411]

Lets call it AppleCoin

They will sell ist for $4.99

 

[smirking]

Is Musk going to be on the Texas coin then?

They're saving him to put on the future South Africa coin.

 

[emmab2006]

Have to agree this is a fantastic idea.

 

[iMac The Knife]

Finally something California has recommended that I'm on board with!

 

[Hopefully Smarter]

the whole idea smacks of nonsense and gimmicks, not just the Steve Jobs part.

 

[scrapesleon]

didn't they say they getting rid of coins in the treasury

 

[ginkobiloba]

“ And it’s our thinnest coin ever ! so thin, it will take you forever to find it in your pocket. “

 

[IIGS User]

If you were going to chose a Californian for such and honor, I can’t think of an individual more worthy.

 

[MrENGLISH]

It should be Steve Wozniak on that coin, not Steve Jobs. Wozniak single-handedly invented the personal computer as we know it.

Pretty sure Woz would prefer being on either a $2 coin or bill 🤣

 

[It’s always something]

It’d be half as thick and cost $3….

…and both sides would be completely blank. 😉

 

[Plutonius]

I would rather have Nikola Tesla or Thomas Edison on the coin.

Steve Jobs deserves to be considered to be put on the coin but I think we want to take someone from the distant past.

 

[That70sGAdawg]

"You're going to love it"

"You're holding it wrong"...

 

[Amazing Iceman]

Wish they picked an image of him from his "prime" before he started getting so thin in his last few years

Probably for the same reason they didn’t use an image of a young Ben Franklin for the $100 bill.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

$1 Coin: The new U.S. Penny

 

[Amazing Iceman]

Don’t forget he should be holding an iPhone in this photo.

 

[adamdaniel]

Lets call it AppleCoin

This is Steve, we're talking about. It would be iCoin.

 

[Jumpthesnark]

I would rather have Nikola Tesla or Thomas Edison on the coin.

On a coin that commemorates innovation in California?

Tip: Check the New Jersey coin. No portrait of Edison, but it shows the first electric light bulb, in appreciation of Edison and his team.

 

[Marx55]

Steve did all that for the money. He wanted to get rich; the richest man on Earth. He said that. But while accomplishing it, he changed the way we work, have fun and live, and the world for good. Steve was great (he is my hero), but not a saint. Without Steve, I could not have done before and now the things that I did and do now. I wish we had many Steve Jobs…