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I miss Steve Jobs.
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If people wanted, Tim Cook 💩 then it’s up to Apple to make that happen. Apple is no different than any other company in the sense they sell products that their customers want. That’s how you run a successful company. You figure out what your customers will buy then create it. People get upset when Apple doesn’t make exactly what they wanted. Sometimes exactly what I want isn’t what the majority of people want. Apple can’t make a special computer for me.
When was that? I’m pretty old although I wasn’t really on the Internet in its early days. As far back as I can remember, people posted stupid stuff 😂
At least we know he wouldn’t be up on stage with a chainsaw like an idiot.
Then it sounds like Jobs vision wasn't as "wildly successful" as you think. The iPhone, arguably the most successful Apple product of all time, may never have happened due to Jobs' resistance (lack of vision).
Haha, this hits home as a newly-middleaged-man.
"I miss Steve Jobs..."
"They don't make things like they used to..."
"Back in my day..."
"Get off my lawn..."
I think we all miss Steve Jobs.
Simply by sheer size, Apple would be a very different company today than it was when Steve died even if he had lived and been CEO this entire time, so I think it's hard to say what Apple would look like today with him at the helm.
Personally, what I miss most about Steve is that he was a rare man of vision, integrity, and courage.
He aspired to serve humanity, to create things of functionality and beauty, and he not only had the vision to do this, he had the courage to make into reality and to take on existing industries and massive competitors.
To me, he was an enlightened disruptor of the status quo that disrupted not through force and manipulation, but by the purity of his vision.
Steve wasn't perfect and Apple wasn't perfect under him, but the impact he left on the world will ripple for decades if not centuries.
Imagine Apple Silicon existing, and the disruptive effect it’s had on the existing PC market since its introduction in 2020, and then saying the Mac is an ‘afterthought’. Holy s—-!
I don’t know if you’re a troll, but this is genuinely one of the dumbest and most ill informed comments I’ve ever read on here, and that is a HUGE achievement.
Again, congratulations! Simply breathtaking.
"I miss Steve Jobs..."
"They don't make things like they used to..."
"Back in my day..."
"Get off my lawn..."
No but seriously get off my lawn.
I'm guessing the comment is somewhat because Macs remain a very small percentage (under 10%) of overall Apple revenues
In the golden age of contrarian hot takes, I gotta say, I never expected “Steve Jobs lacked vision and was kind of a failure” to be one of them. Truly impressive stuff.
Come now, with Steve Jobs around, would we have had such great and amazing inventions as the butterfly keyboard, Fine Woven, Apple (Un)Intelligence, and ever-expanding camera bumps?
Apple today is TEN TIMES larger than the "old, good Apple" was in 2011. Even the mighty Steve Jobs would have had to succumb to the realities of running a 3+ TRILLION dollar company. The current "as needed" release/update schedule is because Apple pushes human manufacturing capability to it's limit and, as fun as they were, the festive release announcements and big store parties that a scrappy small company was justly famous for just won't work now because of the stunningly complicated logistics of just MAKING that much STUFF.
Hlaf-baked beta versions? Ok, I'll give you that, but I've always the hated public betas. One thing I DO miss about the Steve Jobs era is the feeling that he was personally going through the operating systems and getting rid of bugs.
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P.S. Steve Jobs would have just turned 70 and I'm sure the day-to-day CEO responsibilities would have been handed over to someone else YEARS ago anyway.
Hlaf-baked beta versions? Ok, I'll give you that, but I've always the hated public betas. One thing I DO miss about the Steve Jobs era is the feeling that he was personally going through the operating systems and getting rid of bugs.
And finally... I, for one, find photo background removal magical and extremely useful.
P.S. Steve Jobs would have just turned 70 and I'm sure the day-to-day CEO responsibilities would have been handed over to someone else YEARS ago anyway.
"fascinating" is... a word to describe it, yes. Fundamentally maladjusted would be another.
Remember when the Mac Book air that fit into an envelope had all those performance problems, and tiny slow hard disk really bad battery life, only one USB port, bad screen quality? It didn't have a CD drive so you had to find another computer and view access it across a network? Remember Apple Hi-Fi without an aux input, no Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi? Remember iPod Socks? Remember the Apple III that overheated all the time because Jobs hated fans? Remember the PowerMac G4 Cube that cracked and whose performance was lackluster at best? Remember the Hockey Puck mouse that you could never quite get orientated and was just hard to hold? Remember MobileMe? Jobs actually apologized for that one. Remember the iPhone 4 that didn't work well as a phone if you held it wrong? It shows that Jobs focused on form over function almost all of the time, and that descision often bit him on the ass. If he wasn't so good at marketing his memory might not be quite as golden.
As I noted, there were plenty of "visions" Steve Jobs had that weren't accurate or "wildly successful." As far as the iPhone is concerned, it was actually others that had to convince Jobs of its potential. Steve's "vision" missed what would become Apple's most successful product to date. So yes, Steve Jobs absolutely lacked vision in various (although certainly not all) circumstances. I just don't feel it was as "wildly successful" as you seem to think.
Which means very little in terms of quality or fit and finish of products or software
Bigger ≠ Better
I get the sense you think vision means being Nostradamus, never needing input, never changing your mind, just seeing the future in perfect clarity. That’s just not how reality works. Vision isn’t about predicting every detail perfectly, it’s about recognizing potential, making bold bets, and executing at a level no one else can match.
Jobs didn’t invent the smartphone, just like he didn’t invent the MP3 player or the GUI. But he saw what they could be when no one else did. Needing convincing on the iPhone doesn’t mean he lacked vision, it means he had high standards and didn’t greenlight half-baked ideas. That’s literally what made him great.
If you’re out here arguing that Jobs somehow lacked vision because he wasn’t the first guy waving an iPhone prototype around, you’re not uncovering some grand insight, you’re just fundamentally misunderstanding how innovation works.
I feel like this is a very unfair take though.
They’re absolutely has been revisionist history regarding the Jobs era, if you developed a picture of Apple under Jobs via these comments he released computers for completely free and without a single bug.
But I think you illustrate part of what was so good about Steve, sure he thought his way was best, but he wasn’t above being convinced otherwise.
It wasn’t just the idea of Apple making a smart phone he was convinced about, the idea of third-party applications on the iPhone was something he had to be convinced about.
Video on the iPod, EBook readers, a smaller iPad, all of these things he had to be convinced of by someone else.
It was less that he always knew the right answer and more that he knew the right people.
Even something is simple and iconic as it is today with the name “iMac” Steve apparently pretty much had to be tricked into liking, he originally wanted to use the name “MacMan”. Could you imagine? If today we were talking about the release of the new M4 MacMan?
Actually people said stupid stuff before the internet and stupid stuff was written in newspapers like for example "Letters to the Editor". Oh well.