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Happy Birthdays 2007: Steve Jobs and MacRumors
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To get to the PowerBook G5 on the other side...
Anyway Happy Birthday Steve, MacRumors, ghall's Mom and Samurai's Wife!
Just wrote an article to celebrate it~
Hey guys, I'm a 19 years old Mac fans from the faraway China, and im just so excited that i wrote an article.. A few minutes ago I made up my courage to post it on here
. Anyone who spends your time on it please accept my sincere thank-you. Feel free to correct me of any mistakes (it's quite naive i know..) and thanks for your time of devotion!
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Well it's a few hours later here in Beijing time, but it's the right time in your own timezone - February 24th.
So, just cut to the chase. To the great
Steve, here's my most sincere wish: Happy 52th Birthday! You know 52 years ago you came to this human world and demonstrated why it were no longer the same. You have changed the world around us so much, since the Mac in 1984 and the iPod in 2001. And I'm sure you will continue to do so with your iPhone.
The world's been a better place. Without you and your Apple ][, the PC industry wouldn't hv taken off as is, at least not so elegantly. Without you and your Macintosh (perhaps plus Xerox Parc), we'd still stuck in the command line user interface, no window, no mouse, and with clunky in-consisitent keyboard shortcuts (aka "amazing UI" as in NeXTSTEP 3 Demo). Bill and Microsoft would've nowhere to copy Windows from, Ballmer'd have no one to shout "Developers Developers.." to. Tho the big brother is still watching almost everyone, the revolution hasn't been succeeded, there's more and more Switchers just as the 12 Disciples following Jesus and Washington and Jefferson, who "switched" and led others switching to the American belief. The Macintosh is a dream and a belief. A dream where computers is easy to use, great to look at and elegantly to feel. A dream where there weren't no hassle dealing with Viruses, Malwares, BSoDs, DLLs and Registries. A belief where no IT person and Encyclopedia-like thick User Manuals (plus, aftersale support calls to India) are needed. We Evangelists swear to slowly take people back from confuses and panics and unneccessary pains. We live in this Windows world and we ought to be good citizens, but time will prove why this Troy will forever alter the Windows world, because "Once you switched to Mac, you never look back."
Without you and your iPod+iTunes, Rock and Roll wouldn't have reborned and we won't be listening to music this easy and as-like. Without your struggle and continued efforts with the Big Five, no one would be able to own the music. Windows Media DRM plus the greedy Record Lables would've forever locked people out from the world of justice and right and jail everyone in this new digital music world. Tortured UI would've ruled every single Music Player out there, with tiny screens and awkward nipple-like buttons. "128MB with 30 songs in your pocket" would've been our wildest dream. And no one wants more because merely those 30 songs would've taken well over an hour to "sync" to the players without Firewire (Intel'd never invent USB2.0 were there not have been Firewire), which could and were even worse because the success rate of a sync were well below 50% (remember that Yepp?), and after which or halfway thru the battery died out and you had to buy some new AAAs and let out some more Leads the environment to even begin listening to these 30 songs.
Without you and your Pixar (Now assets of Disney), CG and computer animation would not be seen in movies and less laugh could've been observed in the cinema. Toy Story? Finding Nemo? The Incredibles? Cars? Well why "serious people" would even want it!
Without you and your Apple (Now Apple Inc.), beige boxes would still be the symbol of a computer with cords and wires dangling around like . Industrial design and elegance would never be relevance to a machine. Passion, Stevenote, RDM, Wow factor, "Boom", "blow away", "amazing", "mere mortal", rocket concert would be far away from the computer industry. No one around the world would camp out the night before in a cold winter day, fly to or across America, or stay up until 2 o'clock late in the morning (in other countries of other continents) just for a better seat for the next day's keynote of a CEO or simply to watch it; no multi-hundred people would line up stretching out a few blocks just to wait for the opening of a Computer Store; no one would cut or shave or paint his hair to mimic a company logo; no one would create a community with countless rumor sites having various "sources" claiming a new tech products were on the horizon, and thousands of people follow up immediately to piping up their dreams. No one
We are seen as the crazy ones from time to time, but we like the umbrella. Since the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. It's 2007 and the first 30 years were just the beginning. For Apple, and for us all.
Happy Birthday, Steve. From Beijing.
Hey guys, I'm a 19 years old Mac fans from the faraway China, and im just so excited that i wrote an article.. A few minutes ago I made up my courage to post it on here
. Anyone who spends your time on it please accept my sincere thank-you. Feel free to correct me of any mistakes (it's quite naive i know..) and thanks for your time of devotion!-------------------------
Well it's a few hours later here in Beijing time, but it's the right time in your own timezone - February 24th.
So, just cut to the chase. To the great
Steve, here's my most sincere wish: Happy 52th Birthday! You know 52 years ago you came to this human world and demonstrated why it were no longer the same. You have changed the world around us so much, since the Mac in 1984 and the iPod in 2001. And I'm sure you will continue to do so with your iPhone.The world's been a better place. Without you and your Apple ][, the PC industry wouldn't hv taken off as is, at least not so elegantly. Without you and your Macintosh (perhaps plus Xerox Parc), we'd still stuck in the command line user interface, no window, no mouse, and with clunky in-consisitent keyboard shortcuts (aka "amazing UI" as in NeXTSTEP 3 Demo). Bill and Microsoft would've nowhere to copy Windows from, Ballmer'd have no one to shout "Developers Developers.." to. Tho the big brother is still watching almost everyone, the revolution hasn't been succeeded, there's more and more Switchers just as the 12 Disciples following Jesus and Washington and Jefferson, who "switched" and led others switching to the American belief. The Macintosh is a dream and a belief. A dream where computers is easy to use, great to look at and elegantly to feel. A dream where there weren't no hassle dealing with Viruses, Malwares, BSoDs, DLLs and Registries. A belief where no IT person and Encyclopedia-like thick User Manuals (plus, aftersale support calls to India) are needed. We Evangelists swear to slowly take people back from confuses and panics and unneccessary pains. We live in this Windows world and we ought to be good citizens, but time will prove why this Troy will forever alter the Windows world, because "Once you switched to Mac, you never look back."
Without you and your iPod+iTunes, Rock and Roll wouldn't have reborned and we won't be listening to music this easy and as-like. Without your struggle and continued efforts with the Big Five, no one would be able to own the music. Windows Media DRM plus the greedy Record Lables would've forever locked people out from the world of justice and right and jail everyone in this new digital music world. Tortured UI would've ruled every single Music Player out there, with tiny screens and awkward nipple-like buttons. "128MB with 30 songs in your pocket" would've been our wildest dream. And no one wants more because merely those 30 songs would've taken well over an hour to "sync" to the players without Firewire (Intel'd never invent USB2.0 were there not have been Firewire), which could and were even worse because the success rate of a sync were well below 50% (remember that Yepp?), and after which or halfway thru the battery died out and you had to buy some new AAAs and let out some more Leads the environment to even begin listening to these 30 songs.
Without you and your Pixar (Now assets of Disney), CG and computer animation would not be seen in movies and less laugh could've been observed in the cinema. Toy Story? Finding Nemo? The Incredibles? Cars? Well why "serious people" would even want it!
Without you and your Apple (Now Apple Inc.), beige boxes would still be the symbol of a computer with cords and wires dangling around like . Industrial design and elegance would never be relevance to a machine. Passion, Stevenote, RDM, Wow factor, "Boom", "blow away", "amazing", "mere mortal", rocket concert would be far away from the computer industry. No one around the world would camp out the night before in a cold winter day, fly to or across America, or stay up until 2 o'clock late in the morning (in other countries of other continents) just for a better seat for the next day's keynote of a CEO or simply to watch it; no multi-hundred people would line up stretching out a few blocks just to wait for the opening of a Computer Store; no one would cut or shave or paint his hair to mimic a company logo; no one would create a community with countless rumor sites having various "sources" claiming a new tech products were on the horizon, and thousands of people follow up immediately to piping up their dreams. No one
We are seen as the crazy ones from time to time, but we like the umbrella. Since the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. It's 2007 and the first 30 years were just the beginning. For Apple, and for us all.
Happy Birthday, Steve. From Beijing.
wow... 52 and he still hosts those keynotes... gotta hand it to him, hes got one hell of a work ethic.
happy birthday!
happy birthday!
I'm about four hours late, but...
Happy birthday, Steve Jobs and MacRumors!!! I find it amazing how both their birthdays fall on the same day.
That... is called fate.
Happy birthday, Steve Jobs and MacRumors!!! I find it amazing how both their birthdays fall on the same day.
That... is called fate.
OOOppps Five hours late -
Haapppy Birrrthdaaaay to His Steveness and Arn's baby
And to all you youngsters - easy on the old man cracks. I know 52 sounded old to me 30 years ago too, but now it seems so "last year" to me.
Best Birthday I've had yet was when I turned 50.
May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future - Irish toast.
Z
Haapppy Birrrthdaaaay to His Steveness and Arn's baby
And to all you youngsters - easy on the old man cracks. I know 52 sounded old to me 30 years ago too, but now it seems so "last year" to me.
Best Birthday I've had yet was when I turned 50.
May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future - Irish toast.
Z
Events, births and deaths on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_24#Births
Steve Jobs is already there. Maybe someone should add MacRumors to the events section
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_24#Births
Steve Jobs is already there. Maybe someone should add MacRumors to the events section