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Happy Birthday to Steve Jobs and MacRumors
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That’s fine that you have dismay about Tim Cook, but that’s really not the point of the article though, is it? I think it’s inconsiderate To use this article as leverage and how it pertains to Steve Jobs so you can interject negativity about Tim Cook.
Happy Birthday Steve. Apple will never be the same or as good!
Still holding out hope you'll return and straighten out what they have been doing over there. (Because we know you are stubborn enough.) Their products are getting crummier, fragmented, and are 2-3 years behind everyone else now.
Still holding out hope you'll return and straighten out what they have been doing over there. (Because we know you are stubborn enough.) Their products are getting crummier, fragmented, and are 2-3 years behind everyone else now.
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I’ll say happy birthday to MacRumors, not sure about being the best Apple news site, still the best forums for sure.
But I refuse to say the same congratulations to a dead guy I’ve never met!..
But I refuse to say the same congratulations to a dead guy I’ve never met!..
"Just saying it as it is" is rhetorical BS. Anyone who agrees with your opinion nods and says, "Yes, that's the truth." Anyone who disagrees just wonders how anybody can be so arrogant as to believe their opinion is incontrovertible truth.
The existence of flaws and errors is unavoidable. One cannot use the existence of specific flaws as proof that another person would have avoided those flaws. It is purely a matter of belief. The notion that any one person can micro-manage a company of Apple's size is beyond ridiculous. But of course, you may also believe that Apple is too big; that iPhone and iPad distract the company from its true calling, which is making desktop and laptop computers for a very special 2% of the computer-using public. Since iOS is all Steve's doing, just how do you reconcile that with your cult of veneration?
Finally, for all those who think Tim Cook is some sort of abomination and Steve Jobs was the messiah... How do you reconcile the fact that Steve hand-picked Tim as his successor, after knowing and working with him for 10 years? Did infallible Steve make a mistake? If you believe he made a mistake or was deceived (everyone is human), then why honor the man's birthday by dwelling on that error?
Apple itself would have been DEAD for many years now if were not for Steve Jobs. There would have been no iPod, no iPad, no iPhone, no Macs, NO NOTHING !!!
I think Steve would have made the notch "ears" black. He also would have had a dark mode ready for OLED screens.
I acknowledge the iPhone and iPad of course and guess who introduced those? Steve Jobs.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. Its a Democratic free world which is ironic as modern Apple is one of the most undemocratic corporations of modern day.
Just want to say I've only been a member here 16 years, but I didn't miss MacRumors first years! I was a lurker back then (here and on most sites) and didn't join until I started to post. Sheesh, 16 years and I'm only a 6502a? Moof!!
I sometimes wonder
"What would Steve say to XY?"
It's still kind of sad that he is gone.
"What would Steve say to XY?"
It's still kind of sad that he is gone.
Users don't mind the notch. Jobs' iPhone had huge bezels. The OG iPad is ugly AF.
Face ID seems to be really convenient, fast, and secure. Animoji is fun and jobs seemed to have a sense of fun.
Macs just last a long time. My current Pro has lasted me 3 times longer than my previous Samsung laptop. My mini still kicks it with an HDD when coding. The ONLY problem I get with my mini is long compilation time on my Android apps and the Android simulator. Change for the sake of change is bad. One computer cannot do it all, if you require more than a Mac can do, move on.
TouchBar - some users like it, others don't. Just because you don't doesn't mean it's a bad thing.
My HomePod is a beast! No issues whatsoever. Amazing sound for such small footprint.
The login flaw with sudo workaround? Yea it sucks. But as anyone who has ever done software will let you know; it's incredibly hard to be bug free (if not impossible). The bigger the scale of your software, the harder it is to be perfect. Apple has a huge scale here of billions of devices and millions of software packages a user can optionally download. I don't know what you're good at but if you're good with math you can see where I'm going with this.
iOS 5 (under Jobs) was one of the worst updates at first. He was a perfectionist but (naiveness aside) nothing can be perfect.
I didn't know I needed the AirPods. Best damn product I've bought. Honestly, if you run/bike/sit on a desk but need to get up a lot - these are the best things you can get.
Apple is more “undemocratic” than any other modern day corporations. Like Enron, Exxon or Bernie Madoff ...? My own opinion, no.
And this is where you are wrong.
There were a lot of personal assistants back in the 90's. Apple even made one, that was close in philosophy to what the ipad became: the Newton. The idea was there, no one had gotten enough of the pieces right, including price, so they never caught on. But if Apple hadn't done it one of the other player--WHO WERE WORKING ON SIMILAR PRODUCTS ALREADY-- would have released their version and that is what would have been the game changer.
First phone with a touch screen-not Apple, but IBM, in 1992 with the Simon.
First multi-tasking computer- not Apple, but Commodore with the Amiga 1000.
First MP3 portable player?- this one is trickier, not because Apple was first but there were a lot of products out at roughly the same time. Sony, Creative with their Nomad, Diamond's Rio player. Apple's genius here wasn't the device, but providing a legal and easy place to download from, iTunes.
None of the smart systems we have would be the same. But they would exist, and they would be similar to what we are using now.
Look at this websites Forums, and scroll back to look at posts from the early 2000's. They're still there. See what people at the time thought of a lot of Steve Job's decisions. Not all of them are favorable.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburstag SJ und MR!
Happy Birthday SJ and MR.
Happy Birthday SJ and MR.
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And you what’s really ironic about people of your ilk? You have absolutely NO place to go. Even if you think Apple has gone to “sh*t” there is no other company in existence that you can go to and claim they have what you say Apple used to have under Jobs. If Apple has gone to “sh*t” then everybody else is even worse, much worse.