Remembering Steve Jobs

[I7guy]

So is money the ultimate measure of achievement? Pretty sad..

Why is it sad? A for profit, publicly traded corporation provides a service and if successful services revenue from said service. Ask intel, Enron and blackberry.

 

[Starfia]

Didn't we name some kind of a theatre after him for presentations broadcast and recorded with live audiences?

Probably not – I don't know.

 

[ZipZilla]

I feel like if Steve arrived in 2025 in a Time Machine, his impressions would be:

-He would love the spaceship campus, built just as he designed it
-He would be impressed with the Apple Watch and Apple silicon

He would wonder why there were 10 iPad models

He would take one look at the current state of iOS and Mac OS and want to fire everyone

 

[garranhado]

Apple and all community needs Steve.

 

[iFishishh]

RIP Steve Jobs
and honorary mention of Theyayarealiving who was cornerstone member of the MR community.
Moment of silence for those who accounts are no longer with us here at MR

 

[Dark_Omen]

I have been waiting to make the switch. Making Pixel 10 officially available in more locations which Google doesn't seems to give a xxxx, and taking video should be as good on Android as on iOS.

If Tim Cook could just tell the team, no software features for the next release. You are going to fix all the UI problems as well as optimise / refactor and improve your software.

They have an entire year to fix bugs. That’s more than enough time.

They need to POLISH the features that are there, though. For example, the translucency that isn’t able to be read because it doesn’t have the proper contrast in place. They also need to come up with something different for phone to phone transfers on new phones, the current setup is buggy and terrible.

They also need to nix Siri and just have Gemini AI as an assistant, or at least some kind of Apple interface that’s not Siri over Gemini.

 

[segfaultdotorg]

"You're remembering it wrong!"

 

[Selena Agna]

It’s so sad Steve Jobs died of ligma, even if he was a terrible man.

Who's Steve Jobs?

 

[bushman4]

Steve Jobs a true visionary. R I P

 

[Naraxus]

Steve would approve of where Apple is. The YouTube video is clickbait. Apple has been doomed since 2011. Maybe the prophecy is true. Eh?

Apple's been "doomed" since 1976

 

[Naraxus]

So is money the ultimate measure of achievement? Pretty sad..

Did I say it was?

 

[Naraxus]

There are other metrics that many users care far more about.

Oil companies are worth a lot too. 🤮

No you're right there are other metrics that people care more about than a company's overall value. However to make a blanket statement that it's "disgusting what Apple's become" without quantifing why is a bit disingenuous imo.

 

[svish]

Rest in Peace. Only Steve could have founded Apple.

 

[gmillhauser]

I would like to believe that, if Jobs were alive, he would stand up to trump's bullying and not capitulate like the other so called tech titans. Including Cook.

 

[JohannesO]

Siri Siri Siri !!!​

 

[Powerbooky]

It’s funny how every Apple thread like this turns into Steve Jobs would’ve never let this happen, or Apple died with Steve Jobs. Look, no doubt Steve was a genius and set the bar for product vision and design. But Apple’s strength was never just one man. Jobs himself famously said, “I hire people smarter than me so they can tell me what to do.” Tim Cook was handpicked by Steve, not by accident, but because he knew Apple needed operational excellence to scale the kind of innovation he started. And guess what? Under Cook, Apple became a multi-trillion-dollar company that now builds its own chips and redefined wearables while still making massive impacts in the iPhone category.

So yeah, Steve made an impact but pretending Apple’s a mess now because he’s gone is like saying Disney stopped being creative after Walt died. The founder laid the blueprint the company built the empire.

So true. But I have to say... it's hard for any founder to spot the right people. Very few can. Years ago one colleague of mine, retired now, said to me: "Upper management still doesn't know how to recognise the capacity and talent of their employees." He was right then and still is today. It takes more than having a "employee of the month award".

 

[@Brett]

I have been waiting to make the switch. Making Pixel 10 officially available in more locations which Google doesn't seems to give a xxxx, and taking video should be as good on Android as on iOS.

If Tim Cook could just tell the team, no software features for the next release. You are going to fix all the UI problems as well as optimise / refactor and improve your software.

Doubt it will be much better in Pixel land. Plus with Android you are the product.

 

[mxrider88]

Did I say it was?

Clearly implied by your answer

 

[wahit]

Steve Jobs was a visionaire and one of the most important people in tech EVER. Yet, looking at the "homage website" it almost looks like he was a good person. He was not. Anyone that worked with him saw that. At least when he was around Apple stuff was exciting and new. These days Apple is just 1999 Microsoft. No ideas. No excitement. Nothing. That's what you get when you put a woke Excel guy on the helm.

 

[zkap]

What I miss most from him is the way he could speak so passionately about Apple products. His passion felt really genuine

Indeed. The way he spoke is missed not just because of his passion, but also because he could be honest about what Apple did or was doing. There were instances where Jobs admitted Apple's mistake on stage during a presentation (like saying "Why should you believe us, this is coming from the guys who gave you MobileMe?"). This matters because not only is there an extra degree of sincerity (and often humor), which we always appreciate, but you also get the feeling that the mistake has been recognized and they're going to do better.

As opposed to that, Apple now cannot admit to anything that they did wrong, and there was a lot of it. When CSAM didn't exactly fill people with enthusiasm, Apple released a statement saying they were moving forward with it, but they need time to make it even better than it already was. That was years ago.
AirPower? FineWoven? Just come out and admit a mistake every once in a while, just to balance things out.

 

[freezelighter]

Steve is dead.

Apple is dead.

Siri is dead.

Switched to Android.

 

[biziclop]

Who's Steve Jobs?

And what's a computer?

 

[Steve121178]

The reason Jobs was so impactful wasn’t because he was doing it for the money, he did it because he wanted to bring computing to everyone.

???

He was a salesman. A great one. He made you want to buy the product he was talking about.

He was absolutely doing it for the money. To suggest otherwise is just ridiculous.

 

[thiscatisfat]

I feel like if Steve arrived in 2025 in a Time Machine, his impressions would be:

-He would love the spaceship campus, built just as he designed it
-He would be impressed with the Apple Watch and Apple silicon

He would wonder why there were 10 iPad models

He would take one look at the current state of iOS and Mac OS and want to fire everyone

Not to mention the glass served on gold to a convicted pedo rapist.

 

[wanha]

Man, I miss Steve for a lot of reasons, but in particular I'd love to see if he'd bend the knee to Trump the way every other tech CEO has.

I highly suspect he wouldn't, mainly because he had this rare condition in his body called... a spine