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Happy Birthday to Steve Jobs and MacRumors

AngerDanger said:
Nonetheless, Jobs was a phenomenal presenter and consistently had me excited for products I had absolutely no need for.
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IMO, this is what Jobs was best at. I really don’t think Apple or it’s products would be very different if he were alive today. But i do think he would be able to sell them unlike anyone else and convince us all that we needed them.
 
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Guy Clark said:
Would he have have crippled the MacBook Pro with USB-C NO
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USB-C is the best thing in It industry in years, and Thunderbolt 3 is the king of all IO. eGPU is a game changer and indeed changed my workflow. I had any kind of computer/OS, and my MacBook Pro 13” 2017 + Mantiz Venus is the best computer I ever had and used in my 15 years as tech expert and technician.
Speak for yourself and stop being arrogant
 
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Oh boy i can't wait to see what comments appear in this thread about how much Apple has suffered at the hands of Tim Cook and so on :rolleyes:

But seriously Happy Birthday to Steve Jobs! he was a great man who did great things at Apple.
 
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ikir said:
USB-C is the best thing in It industry in years, and Thunderbolt 3 is the king of all IO. eGPU is a game changer and indeed changed my workflow. I had any kind of computer/OS, and my MacBook Pro 13” 2017 + Mantiz Venus is the best computer I ever had and used in my 15 years as tech expert and technician.
Speak for yourself and stop being arrogant
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I have been using Apple Products since the Apple 2
http://oldcomputers.net/appleii.html

No arrogance on my part just saying it as it is.
 
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keysofanxiety said:
Ahahaha I'm exactly the same when I watch those old videos.

"Damn right Photoshop 6.0 screams on the G3!"
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He'd always say "and it is a screamer."

Miss that guy and miss his taste most of all.

I was kind of late in coming to the Mac, but I'm not sure I would have had it not been for Steve's ability to make me want to drop a lot of money on computers I didn't need.
 
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krause734 said:
Wonder what Steve would think of the iPad Mini, iPhone X notch, Face ID/animojis, no new Mac Mini/Pro in years, MBP touchbar, Homepod errors, easy login flaw, etc. He was a perfectionist. Apple will never be the same. He gave us what we didn't know we needed and it was magical.
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This stuff makes me laugh. Wasn’t Steve responsible for antenna-gate with the iPhone 4? Said we were holding the phone wrong? Listen Steve Jobs was great. He gave us the iPod and iPhone. But a company is only as good as its people. He had an extremely taleneted support team around him. It was a perfect storm. Some could say Jeff Bezos is everybit of a visionary as Steve Jobs was although he’s providing a service not a product, he’s changed how the entire world purchases product. To me that’s eveybit as game changing. Steve Jobs was talented but so was his entire team at Apple. He wasn’t the only one responsible for the iPhone.
 
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Well, Steve Jobs was a genius and Tim Cook only seems to be a great business man, not a tech man.

But I'd rather give, this time, my happy birthday to this site, Macrumors.

Macrumors has become one of my favorite places to: read the latest news of technology, laugh at the jokes of its members (I'm looking at you @AngerDanger ), reach for help if I have some kind of problem, share my thoughts and my predictions about the next MacBook Pro (feel a bit like Kuo), practice my English in order to keep it fresh, and meet an awesome community.

I wrote once a PM to Arnold, he never answered, but anyway, thanks to him we have this awesome technology community. We could create some kind of Discord or Whatsapp group, specially if there are European members (because of the timezone). It is an idea, although with so many people it would be a chaos, and I always have the forum on my iPhone.

What more can I say? I love you guys. We sometimes have disagreement, but usually MacRumors people is respectful. You are my companions in my love for technology, and always learn something new thanks to you.
 
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Guy Clark said:
Happy Birthday Steve Jobs. Apple is entirely without direction and focus now you have passed.

Steve Jobs was a respectable man who drove Apple with pride and ambition ever seeking innovation and changed the way in which we use computers and Hand Held devices in the modern day. How happy he would have been to see Microsoft fail so dismally in the mobile market on the back of Ballmer laughing at the iPhone.

How happy he would have been to see all the mainstream manufacturers attempting to copy the MacBook Air over the years without success.

Would he have crippled the Mac mini in 2014 NO

Would he have have crippled the MacBook Pro with USB-C NO

Would he have multiple new projects in the pipeline YES

Would he have allowed the Mac mini to go four years without a refresh NO

Would he have had consideration for the Apple consumer YES


.....the list is endless without his focus and direction.
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I need the crystal ball you have to see the future. Because id like to place some bets and clean house. I’m sorry but your speculation on what steve would or wouldn’t have done is purely that, speculation.
 
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Leaving alone all the rueful Tim-ain’t-Steve stuff, I find that photo very hard to look at. On one hand, he looks like a proud papa, embarking on one of his now-legendary reveals, top of his game. On the other hand, he is cachectic, riddled with cancer, without much time left on this world. So tough.
 
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Really sad to be reminded how young he was when he passed. Love him, hate him, he gave a hell of a "keynote," and could make the most mundane products seem exciting... well almost. I'll give him a pass on iPod socks and the leather iPod case. Not sure how those got past his better judgment.

(I just wish he fixed auto spell check -- esp. in Safari -- before he left this world.)
 
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An auspicious occasion for both.

Steve did a great job picking a successor and if Steve could reach beyond the neverworld he would be pleased where Apple is going under Tim.

As far as macrumors best rumor/news site on the inter webs.
 
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Happy 18th MacRumors.
Now you can vote! A great place to hang out and talk all things tech as well as anything else that floats your boat! You should be proud of what you have achieved @arn.

As for Steve, it was sad that he passed when he did, and he clearly had a passion for what he did.
I would be curious to see how things would be different today was he still around. But I'm not going to bash Tim. He is a different person with different skills in a different time.
It's hard to compare the two.
 
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panjandrum said:
Happy Birthday Steve - a true hero to me, even if only in hindsight.

While Steve was alive I made the mistake of not attributing nearly everything good about Apple to him, even though he oversaw the revival of Apple (both financially and in terms of product quality) after the incredibly dark times surrounding the 7.5 era. I really disliked decisions like discontinuing the Newton, among others.

Through it all I thought Steve was a determined leader that had surrounded himself with other talented persons who were also responsible for much of the progress and that the press was probably just glorifying Steve due to his charisma (aka "reality distortion field"). That's not to say I didn't always respect him, and agree with much of what he did, I simply thought he was a significant part of a group of talented people.

I was a fool: After seeing what's happened to Apple, beginning not with his death, but almost the moment he had to start relinquishing control due to health issues, it is now obvious that Steve was almost solely responsible for Apple's fantastic software, hardware, reliability, innovation, and integration. Most importantly he seems to have been the only person working in the entire da*n industry that actually understood that the single most important thing about technology is how it integrates properly with human beings so that humans can use it easily and intuitively. He was OCD enough to obsess even over the little things that make a huge difference, especially as they pile-up.

Another small-business owner I work with on regular basis (also in the computer-support industry) put is more succinctly that I could: "I've never seen any company go to sh*t as fast as Apple has."

The new Apple does not carry "Steve Jobs' DNA -- his taste, his thinking, his unwavering perfectionism, his dedication to hard work, and his lust for innovation" with them - they sh*t all over it...
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There should be a mechanism to up vote this post 100K, Apple today is solely about $$$$$ nothing else; being both cheap & greedy, nickel & diming it's customers at every possible opportunity. Such tremendous potential, all to sadly squandered by the small minded, and their incessant greed...

Q-6
 
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I’m thankful for Steve’s life and the things he brought to this world!

I’m also thankful for this wonderful site. Happy Birthday MacRumors!
 
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panjandrum said:
Happy Birthday Steve - a true hero to me, even if only in hindsight.

While Steve was alive I made the mistake of not attributing nearly everything good about Apple to him, even though he oversaw the revival of Apple (both financially and in terms of product quality) after the incredibly dark times surrounding the 7.5 era. I really disliked decisions like discontinuing the Newton, among others.

Through it all I thought Steve was a determined leader that had surrounded himself with other talented persons who were also responsible for much of the progress and that the press was probably just glorifying Steve due to his charisma (aka "reality distortion field"). That's not to say I didn't always respect him, and agree with much of what he did, I simply thought he was a significant part of a group of talented people.

I was a fool: After seeing what's happened to Apple, beginning not with his death, but almost the moment he had to start relinquishing control due to health issues, it is now obvious that Steve was almost solely responsible for Apple's fantastic software, hardware, reliability, innovation, and integration. Most importantly he seems to have been the only person working in the entire da*n industry that actually understood that the single most important thing about technology is how it integrates properly with human beings so that humans can use it easily and intuitively. He was OCD enough to obsess even over the little things that make a huge difference, especially as they pile-up.

Another small-business owner I work with on regular basis (also in the computer-support industry) put is more succinctly that I could: "I've never seen any company go to sh*t as fast as Apple has."

The new Apple does not carry "Steve Jobs' DNA -- his taste, his thinking, his unwavering perfectionism, his dedication to hard work, and his lust for innovation" with them - they sh*t all over it...
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This is crazy talk! Apple still makes great reliable easy to use software and hardware. Apple was worth $300 billion at the time of Steve Jobs death, now its worth what 900 billion, in just 7 years after his death? Ya that sounds like a company who’s gone to s*^# so fast. If Steve Jobs was Apple and everyone else was purely warm bodies do you think it would still have the growth it does today? Yes he laid the foundation but the Apple Talent is keeping the legacy alive. Clearly you’ve never owned a business. I’m a business owner and I want people working for me who are more talnented then I am. I guarantee Steve thought that same way.
 
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