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Happy Birthday to Steve Jobs and MacRumors

canadianreader said:
It's unfortunate that Tim Cook did not follow his footsteps.
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It’s just as well.

I’m not convinced Apple would have been better off with Jobs at the helm with the company at its current size and trajectory anyway. I have to wonder if he would have stepped aside anyway by now.
 
I started visiting MR in 2000. By the time the iPod got introduced in 2001, the site had already developed a huge community of (very critical) forum members.

Steve was harshly bashed for the iPod on MR, I also remember. “Give us more powerful Mac towers, not toys” was the mood. Thankfully, Apple was not run by MR dudes.
 
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djcerla said:
I started visiting MR since 2000. By the time the iPod got introduced in 2001, the site had already developed a huge community of (very critical) forum members.

Steve was harshly bashed for the iPod on MR, I also remember. “Give us more powerful Mac towers, not toys” was the mood.
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Imagine if they had! Their market share would be very different!
 
MacRumors said:



Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who co-founded Apple and was responsible for catapulting the company to wild success with products like the iPod and the iPhone, was born on February 24, 1955, and were he still alive, today would mark his 63rd birthday.

Jobs not only founded Apple alongside Steve Wozniak in 1976 and directed the future of technology with the development of some of the first personal computers, but he also brought Apple back from the brink of failure even after being ousted from the company he created.

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Though he passed away in October of 2011 when he was just 56, Steve Jobs had a lasting impact on Apple's culture. As current Apple CEO Tim Cook often says, Steve Jobs' DNA -- his taste, his thinking, his unwavering perfectionism, his dedication to hard work, and his lust for innovation -- will "always be the foundation of Apple."

Cook always honors Steve Jobs on his birthday, and will undoubtedly have some thoughts to share with us later today.

There are no Apple products -- and few technology products -- on the market that have not been influenced by Steve Jobs in some way, however small, and had we not had Jobs, the world might be a different place today. Millions of lives have been touched by Apple devices, including the lives of each one of us here at MacRumors and all of the readers who visit the site every day to see what's new in the world of Apple.

MacRumors shares a birthday with Steve Jobs, and as of today, the site is turning 18. MacRumors was founded on February 24, 2000 by Arnold Kim, and what started out as a small side project has flourished and grown right alongside Apple into the best Apple news site on the web.

We here at MacRumors are grateful to all of our dedicated readers, community members, and volunteers, and we look forward bringing you Apple news and rumors for the next 18 years.

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Happy Birthday, "MacRumors". and Steve we still miss very Much.
 
Happy Birthday Steve!
I hope you reincarnate in our lifetime.
You're one of the few that deserves immortality. ;)
 
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Happy Birthday Steve...it is amazing how many world-changers have tempers, grate against the status quo and sometimes might even be a stinky cheese (a 3rd Rock From the Sun episode quote), and so Steve may fit into one of those and as such we all own him and the other founders of Apple thanks for their innovation in the world of tech.
 
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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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Good to know you had a conversation with him recently. Let’s be real you have no idea what he would have or not have done.

Please stop acting as if your the voice for any mac user other than yourself and retire your soapbox.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
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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I can’t say it any differently or better than this so...I will just leave it here and add my support for this post, which expresses my same feelings of appreciation more eloquently than I could.
 
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barkomatic said:
I always thought it weird when the birthdays of dead people are celebrated. I thought a birthday was a celebration of life—you made it another year. Steve Jobs was great but he’s not coming back to blow out those candles.
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I agree, I was scrolling thru the thread to make sure someone hasn't posted it because I was going to.

I can sort of see it for the first couple years, but it's been 7 years now.

To me, it would be more appropriate to mention the date of his passing, along with the reflections.
 
Hard to believe Jobs has Been gone since 2011, feels like yesterday when I heard the news he passed on. But none the less, he doesn’t appear to the type of Man who would want lots of Happy Birthdays, but his Birthday serves as a nice reflection to remember his contributions/achievements in Apple and the technological world. Truly amazing individual on so many levels.
 
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JediZenMaster said:
Good to know you had a conversation with him recently. Let’s be real you have no idea what he would have or not have done.

Please stop acting as if your the voice for any mac user other than yourself and retire your soapbox.
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Not the voice of the Mac user neither am I on a soapbox just pointing outs some Facts.

Old MacBook Pro mini display port/magsafe/firewire 800/thunderolt 2/USB 3.0 (The vast majority of peripherals are USB 3.0)

New MacBook Pro USB-C/thunderbolt 3 and ungainly docking station

Pretty obvious looking from that viewpoint.
 
Why should I care? I didn’t know him. I would have probably been fired by him! Then, explain why I purposely slid off the chair at my desk and lied on the floor for over 5 minutes after seeing the huge black and white photo of his face when they announced that he had passed away.

Ok.
 
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