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Remembering Steve Jobs
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Steve would be proud of the Apple Silicon chips, but disappointed in today's software (OS) quality.
We would have seen another Mini if Steve Jobs was still there.
Sadly, one of the poorest decisions Steve Jobs made was to delay surgery for his neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer, opting for alternative therapy. Had he not done so, he might have lived considerably longer or even be alive today.
Interestingly, the co-creator of Siri, Dag Kittlaus, was diagnosed with the same rare cancer in 2016. He had surgery the day after and is still around.
Interestingly, the co-creator of Siri, Dag Kittlaus, was diagnosed with the same rare cancer in 2016. He had surgery the day after and is still around.
Psychopath. Also his love for quackery cut his life short for at least few months. I wish he wouldn't be remembered as "great visionary", "apple guy", "iphone guy", "mac guy" but as symbol that quackery can make our lives shorter or even kill us.
Are we really doing this every year?
That’s no disrespect to Jobs or those who were connected to him, but there surely has to be a point at where the line is drawn with these anniversaries. What is Apple, if not a business?
Yes Jobs was highly influential to Apple’s successes, but equally he was a human being who drove others to create their best works, and I’m sure if he were still here he would laugh at the idea of people idolising him in these manners.
After all, do we highlight the anniversary of Henry Ford’s passing? Albert Einstein? Alan Turing? Or other geniuses that have come and gone?
Just some perspective, we shouldn’t forget that this was a CEO who sold consumer electronics, not a Demi-god.
That’s no disrespect to Jobs or those who were connected to him, but there surely has to be a point at where the line is drawn with these anniversaries. What is Apple, if not a business?
Yes Jobs was highly influential to Apple’s successes, but equally he was a human being who drove others to create their best works, and I’m sure if he were still here he would laugh at the idea of people idolising him in these manners.
After all, do we highlight the anniversary of Henry Ford’s passing? Albert Einstein? Alan Turing? Or other geniuses that have come and gone?
Just some perspective, we shouldn’t forget that this was a CEO who sold consumer electronics, not a Demi-god.
I hear this every year. And yet iPhone installed base keeps growing and Apple sells countless millions of iPhones. 🤷♂️
Apple today doesn’t have any soul, and I think that’s what I miss most about Steve’s passing. I’m still in the game and have been since 1983, but I definitely don’t have the same enthusiasm or passion I once had. 😕
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It's wild how many people who never met Steve Jobs act like they know exactly what he'd think or do today.
Some of us are, yeah.
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The Apple that many of us love (and increasingly miss) was all about Steve, including all the idiosyncrasies.
It's just one day a year .. one post ...one comment area.
Bless us with the grace to allow for that. 🙏
There is a duopoly of smartphones with effectively insurmountable moats; it’s not like there’s a lot of choice.
Steve would have been horrified by the dystopian reality his utopian vision created. Phone addiction, mass disinformation, mass surveillance, and bottomless loneliness, divisiveness, outrage, anger, and hate that is shattering society.
I'd like to hope that some of this, at least on the Apple side, would have been mitigated along the way.
The iPhone being this addictive slot machine in the pocket, that has now also hamstrung all Apple business direction decisions (overly concerned about protecting their iOS App Store revenue cut at ALL costs) happened via choices that were made since his passing.
I do get where you're coming from on the original post, though, for sure.
Increasingly this feels like a shot of nostalgia I need every year (remembering Apple under Steve).
Oh I totally get that, and what's interesting is how each passing year more and more of us are lamenting the Apple of current compared to that of Jobs' day. We can be grateful that we lived those days.
Sadly there is no going back to them as the company is a victim of its own successes with mobile devices, combined with Cook's relentless virtue signalling that, if we're being honest, has little integrity. This was only reinforced recently with the whole 'carbon neutral' saga, that from what we can tell was just quietly brushed under the rug with little fight.
So much of what ails me on the Mac could be solved for if they'd empower a deep ability to theme the OS.
The features are wonderful!
It's their design direction that has really started to polarize folks.
On iOS I care less and less as I use it reluctantly due to my vast preference for smaller (I'd argue, "normal") sized devices that are increasingly rare.
I'm not the biggest fan of Steve, but real recognizes real. He would have kept a small phone option around.
And would've killed the Liquid Glass team.
It was quite a shock when I read he had died. I bought an iPhone 4S later, with my own money. Same as Steve, my iPhone 4S suffered a bad fate and felt out of my pocket in between the stairs. I haven’t broke single iPhone since.
In the summer of 2010 I went to another country and lived on my own. I bought an iPad in New York and was using it for learning Java, reading Dark Knight Rises, Scott Pilgrim and playing Monkey Island.
In the summer of 2010 I went to another country and lived on my own. I bought an iPad in New York and was using it for learning Java, reading Dark Knight Rises, Scott Pilgrim and playing Monkey Island.
No one can give a keynote like him, but I wish Apple would still try again.
Live demos felt so much more exciting than sanitized and pre-approved corporate videos for their events.
Live demos felt so much more exciting than sanitized and pre-approved corporate videos for their events.
RIP Steve, thank you for making the world a better place.
Probably the same way he felt about the iPod when three years after it was introduced it split off into the iPod Mini/Color/Photo/Shuffle/Nano/Touch/Classic.
By the end of the 2000s Apple literally had three different coexisting MacBook lines and four different desktop lines, four iPod lines and two iPhones, this idea that he was against the diversifying markets is just so, so dumb.
The four quadrant computer grid only existed for about 11 months before it didn’t and there was a cube and an eMac and a Mac Mini and all sorts of computers that would have never ended up in the four quadrant grid.
Also, there are emails from jobs showing that he was interested in diversifying the iPhone line…
2010 Email From Steve Jobs Confirms Apple Had Considered Launching an 'iPhone Nano'
An email from Steve Jobs surfaced as part of evidence of Apple's ongoing legal battle with Epic Games, has confirmed that in 2010, the company...
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And of course, one of his last moves at the company was approving the development of the first iPad mini…
Eddy Cue Worked to Convince Steve Jobs of Need for 7-Inch iPad in Early 2011
Back in October 2010, Steve Jobs appeared on an Apple earnings conference call to address the Android-based iPad competitors that were just then...
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If the market said make bigger screens, you bet he would have made bigger screens. If the market demanded phones at different price points, you bet he would have made phones at different price points.
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