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Remembering Steve Jobs
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No, not an order. I don’t know what you’re referring to. If you’d like to post it, that would be nice, and appreciated. Thank you.
Microsoft provides the default OS for the vast majority of corporate machines + corporate suites on top of that. I think being a more creative underdog yet still being a similar size is quite impressive.
That said Tesla's apparently the most valuable company in terms of market cap because investors still think it can dominate the entire EV market. I question why given the market's now over-crowded, they're no longer the default option and they've alienated their key demographic.
Things can flip very quickly! Intel's probably an example of that (as is Nvidia).
What I was trying to communicate: It is hard to imagine that SJ would have been impressed by any company's market cap whose products suck. Or maybe I'm just projecting.
Post after post, you sure want everyone to do the work for you. Rhetorical question after rhetorical question, demand of videos, etc. You found your way to the macrumors website, surely you can find the search bar your favorite browser.
Post after post? Really? I couldn't find the Ive interview referenced.
I simply give more credence when credible sources are provided. Rather than one's personal opinion.
That's perfectly fine with me if you're OK relying on someone's personal opinion.
To be fair I liked some of his 'flops'. For example the G4 Cube is one of my favourite computers and I still have an Apple TV (1st gen) in my den that I use regularly. I view them quite affectionately.
That's totally fine if you like it. I kind of liked it too (though I didn't own one). The market apparently didn't, along with his many other flops.
we're now using modern/pale imitations/homage's to the truly great products of Apple's recent past.
Who is “we”. I am using modern Apple products, some of which didn’t exist prior to 2011 and really enjoy using them.
It's often like that as time passes. Nostalgia sets in and some old flops get a cult following, whether they're devices, movies, songs… or even people (artists that were ignored during their lifetime and who become "geniuses" after death).
its not about intelligence. Its about vision. All corporates have smart people working for them, yet almost all have products that suck on hardware or software side of things. Steve had a talent to know what to make and HOW to make it.
OS X , iPod, iPhone, iPad were all visions of Steves. Even if competitors come with the product first its never as good as Steve's implementation (iPod vs Zune, iPad vs HP Compaq tablet , iPhone vs Nokia Navigator). More importantly on the software side of things, not hardware, because no matter how much higher specs Samsungs jams into their phones , Android will not be iOS (the reason people buy iPhones).
Steve jobs "humanized" computers, from machines to appliances. "it just works!"
It is but equally... I owned a cube for many years and loved it.
There was a myth that they overheated and I got mine cheaply as it was returned for 'overheating' issues. This is partly why it flopped. People did all sorta of things to stop it 'turning off' like storing it on its side and having industrial sized fans next to it. They had no fan so it was just assumed that this MUST be 'overheating'. MUST! (And that putting it on its side somehow improved heat efficiency rather than covering the power button with a shadow, more on that soon).
The fix? You can google it... slip a small square of baking paper on top of the light sensor used as the on button (inside the case so a 100% clean fix). The light sensor was too sensitive, so would register false 'off' signals. Baking paper reduced the sensitivity.
There's nostalgia and then there's lived experiences. I validly still think the G4 Cube (one of Steve's pet products) was an excellent computer. Pity Apple didn't just do a recall, fix the power button and release a 2.0 in my opinion.
Ritchie and Thompson get plenty of respect, but I don't think they really need a shout-out at a Job's memorial.
Jobs stood on a lot of shoulders so the list would be too long to even get into if you start doing that, and honestly I would think Steve Wozniak, Jef Raskin, Burrell Smith, Bill Atkinson, and Andy Hertzfeld (and I'm probably leaving out a multitude) should probably get the shout-out before Ritchie and Thompson, as those two didn't really become a large part of the equation of Apple until Jobs returned with NextStep 20 years into Apple's history, did they? Sure BSD is a huge part of Mac OS now, but to state "no great Apple technology" without UNIX or Objective C completely excludes Apple's hardware development that is at least equal to their software development.
Just my opinion on a tangential issue, but I found it sad to see the early Mac team that actually created the Mac's distinction from UNIX CLIs of the time forgotten in your post.
Last I checked Tesla's market cap was around 1.5T, which is less than half that of Apple (3.8T), Microsoft (3.9T) , or NVidia (4.5T, which is insane to me, and really makes me think there is an AI bubble as big as the tulip bubble!)
Hear hear!
Totally agree on all of this.
The upgrade price gouging is out of control.
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Exactly! IMO the term intelligence is pretty loaded anyway as it describes a person’s capacity to think rather than their actions.
Regardless of how “intelligent” he was, Jobs was clearly influential in the consumer tech space.
I’d argue he surrounded himself with highly capable people and pushed them to create products with genuine breakthrough appeal. This was timely as he did it during an era that was otherwise full of clever but often impractical designs. He was less the engineer and more the catalyst... the person who fused creativity, design and marketing into something that regular people actually wanted to use.
There are lucky people that land on places with the correct support.
Jobs was not able to hold a well, a job because of his antics.
When he was at Atari, they moved him to a separate area because of his actions.
Someone like that today would not be tolerated.
He was extremely lucky in meeting The Woz and yes, his salesman blood did help a lot in creating apple.
But if he was employee number 20, for example, chances are, nobody would had put up with his attitude and behavior, regardless of his salesman talents.
Anyways, all this panned this way, its done and we are all here.
Jobs was not able to hold a well, a job because of his antics.
When he was at Atari, they moved him to a separate area because of his actions.
Someone like that today would not be tolerated.
He was extremely lucky in meeting The Woz and yes, his salesman blood did help a lot in creating apple.
But if he was employee number 20, for example, chances are, nobody would had put up with his attitude and behavior, regardless of his salesman talents.
Anyways, all this panned this way, its done and we are all here.