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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.
 
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.
 
Steve, Timmy made iOS so bad now that I am switching to Android.

You guys used to make iPhone so impressive that I felt addictive to it. Now Timmy has worked hard on making users hard to leave rather than tempt them to stay.

I hear this every year. And yet iPhone installed base keeps growing and Apple sells countless millions of iPhones. 🤷‍♂️
 
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.

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. 🙏
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
I wonder how Steve would’ve felt about the eventual tiering of the iPhone line from one flagship to SE/Pro/Pro Max/Air
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…
And this wasn’t going to be a “new” iPhone, the email literally describes that the lower cost phone would have just used recycled iPod touch and 3GS parts, literally the Tim Cook method.
And of course, one of his last moves at the company was approving the development of the first iPad mini…
The guy wasn’t dumb, and contrary to most of what this thread would make you believe, he liked money.
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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