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Steve Jobs Has Passed Away

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Sad, sad day. Steve, thanks for all that you have done to contribute to our lives. You will be missed. My heart truly goes out to your family...
 
Not since Jesus has a man been able to reach out and touch to the masses and inspire people like Steve did, like Jesus he was taken from us in a painful way and at a ridiculously early age.

We will not see another Steve or a man have an effect on the world like Steve did for centuries if ever.
 
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RIP Steve.

The world lost a true visionary, innovator, thinker, creator, inventor, countless of other great things. :\ Thank you Steve and you will be missed.
 
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KPOM said:
We still have a few days of tributes remaining, and it will be very interesting to see what the scene is like tomorrow morning at the stores (will it be buzzing with a new product launch, somber, both, or something in between?). But that said, Apple will need to move on. What's the best way the company can do so while paying tribute to Steve's vision?

It's in good hands operationally with Tim Cook at the helm. While Steve Jobs' is obviously irreplaceable as a visionary, there were others (some of whom have come and gone) who were a big part of that success. Apple will need that kind of vision to avoid going through the rough times that other companies (e.g. Ford, Disney, HP) experienced when their founders moved on.

Does that vision currently reside in Cupertino? Should Apple seek someone outside the company, such as Jon Rubenstein (designer of the original iPod) to assume a Chief Strategy Officer or similar role?
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No one can replace Steve, Cook will do a great job with the finances and Jonny Ive will design great looking products but there is no one who can replace Steve's passion and vision, there is not even any point trying.

Apple will survive, indirectly this might boost sales short term because of people buying Apple products out of sympathy but as long as they keep churning out good products they will survive
 
My condolences

My condolences to Steve's family, friends and co-workers.

Steve helped to push our technology beyond what most people thought was possible within a mere decade. Let's not forget his vision and continue pushing forward for the next ten years and beyond.
 
EvillYoda said:
Would we even have the internet if it wasn't for Jobs? After all the WWW was invented by a man using a NEXT computer.

The first consumer available digital camera!
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Yes, we would still have the world wide web. Berners-Lee would have used a UNIX box instead.

The iCamera was 'one of the first available', not the first. Kodak was in the market a full year before it was released. There would have been digital cameras without Steve.

He did some good things but lets not go crazy.
 
I have had only Apple computers for over 30 years.

Apple will continue on Steve's momentum for a little while and then I think it will go the way that it did in the 90's; hardly distinguishable from the Windows market. You can't train vision, and Apple was Steve's. Although The Woz is the one that started the whole thing off from the engineering angle, Steve is the one with this persistent vision of the future he was trying to get the public to go along with one step at a time. Sometimes he took one step forward too many and the people threw a fit so he'd have to backtrack a little. The world just didn't move fast enough for him.

Apple was only ever doing right when Steve Jobs was at the helm, and without him I have no faith in it because he was the writer, the author, the head, the one focused on a vision, an individual on a mission that nobody can replace. Now there'll be too many cook's in the kitchen, and all the people who thought they could do better than Steve will be fighting to get to the top. They'd be better off starting their own company and doing their own thing. Apple was Steve's creation. He didn't do a whole lot; he was the idea man, but he assembled the teams to make his ideas a reality. He saw the potential in other people's creations all over the world and hijacked them as vehicles in the furtherance of his vision. Nobody knows exactly what the future he was heading for looked like, but my guess is that it looked a lot like ST:TNG.

This is a sad day. It's not just the end of an influential life, it's also the end of the source of almost all the tech industry's innovation. For many years now, everyone else just watches for the release of new Apple products. They try to copy them as close as they can without jeopardizing litigation. At first they were frustrated that no new idea could compete with Apple. Then they became lazy and just waited for Apple to do their designing for them. Now they won't know what to do, and the public will long for things that will never come. I realize of course that Steve Jobs didn't actual DO the work himself as far as engineering and design, but he said exactly what he wanted, and he nitpicked down to the finest detail. He won every time.

Goodbye :apple:
 
Steve was great. He brought the advantages of Unix to the masses, when no one else would or could, or were hobbled by licensing issues. He broke through barriers again and again. He gave me good reasons to switch away from Linux & Windows and return to Mac.

Requiscat in pace.
 
CWT1965 said:
Not since Jesus has a man been able to reach out and touch to the masses and inspire people like Steve did, like Jesus he was taken from us in a painful way and at a ridiculously early age.

We will not see another Steve or a man have an effect on the world like Steve did for centuries if ever.
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Okay, now we are trolling. :D
 
kendrid said:
Okay, now we are trolling. :D
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Not trolling at all, he was the first "celebrity" CEO, think of a CEO you think of a man in a grey suit, faceless corporate number cruncher, but Steve was a CEO that reached out to people, he was a tech enthusiast and a fan you could tell by his products and his passion, I can't think of anyone in business who has ever inspired people the way Jobs has, how many people have queued up all night outside a store for a gadget ? Steve made being a geek fashionable.

Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Edison were great inventors but they were not inspirational people with great charisma, the only one I suppose close to Jobs was Howard Hughes but even then Jobs achieved more than Hughes
 
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