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Steve Jobs Has Passed Away

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iPhone 4S... (For Steve)

Can't seem to wrap my brain around all this, the empty seat that said. "Reserved" during Keynote on Tuesday, his death occurring a mere day after the Keynote... he was truly an inspiration with an amazing work ethic. I'm sure his vision and influence will continue to be seen, felt and experienced in future Apple products. Sad day indeed :(
 
Another great mind, lost for eternity, with a new entry for historical figures to be admired, despised, scrutinized and analyzed.

I believe SJ is one of the last great American icons, with things now as they are, the next innovative powerhouse won't be grown here, but we will watch from across the globe.

Insane how every corner of the media and internet has this news / tribute - when Amazon, Microsoft even Adobe have this on their front pages - difficult making a case that he wasn't an innovator. Especially when acknowledged by competitors...
 
The world seems less bright today. It's amazing how much influence a person I never met had on my life.

Rest in peace, Steve. You touched millions of lives and made the world a better place. You will be missed.
 
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My son is 2. He uses a touch screen and swipe gestures. Steve jobs achieved this so that generations can grow up and create whatever the next revolution is. Only war has previously created such advancements in the same space of time.
 
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Thanks Steve, you are inspirational.
 
Damn, this is hard...
While I do want to go out there, move on and conquer the world at the same time I have this empty feeling in my chest.

Steve had so much influence in the last 20 years of my life. I feel like I lost my brother.

RIP bro, I'll miss you....:apple:
 
Thank you for allowing so many of us to realize just how creative we can be by not having to think about the technology behind what we were using, allowing us to free our minds. You were one of the few CEOs who recognized how important creativity and design was to the whole process. If there were more Steve Jobs on the planet, the world would be such a better place.

Thank you for everything you've done for us.
 
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This is what haunts me. The leap he made over the last decade was immense. My mind cant even wrap around what 20 more years of Steve would accomplish
 
Yesterday, words failed me. Today, I'm still reflecting on a computing world without his unique presence.

So I say just a simple "Thank you... thank you, Mr Steven Paul Jobs".
 
CWT1965 said:
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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If you want to limit your point to CEO's, you have an (arguable) point. I think it's wrong - Ray Kroc, Sam Walton, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison were not modern celebrities, but they had a larger effect on the US and the world than Jobs did. But, as I said, that can be argued.

I wouldn't argue that no CEO in the past 10 years has been nearly as influential as Jobs, though - I think that can't be disputed. And of course it's not just that his company was successful; it was that he stamped his vision on Apple's products and they were successful because of his single-minded vision.


It's the "not since Jesus" bit in your post that is laughably incorrect.
 
Goodbye

Thank you Steve for all the great tools and inspiration you and the Apple team have given us over the years.

I used Apple IIs in high school. I typed my first resume on a Mac SE in college. I was the only non-computer science major (I was MIS) to get a special account for one of the NeXTstations we had a Penn State. I can still remember the Welcome email on the NeXT, complete with an audio message from Steve.

The Mac has truely inspired me and made me more creative. I am able to share and create memories with family and friends via iMovie and iPhoto.

You have enriched the lives of so many and I am eternally grateful.

Rest in Peace.
 
Man...

So young... but of course the battle with cancer was long.

He will be missed for sure :(

Sucks. Now he's in peace though. Best wishes for his family :(
 
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"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

I will remember you in your prime Steve i hope you didn't suffer. I for one will keep your memory alive, you are still my hero.
 
alhedges said:
If you want to limit your point to CEO's, you have an (arguable) point. I think it's wrong - Ray Kroc, Sam Walton, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison were not modern celebrities, but they had a larger effect on the US and the world than Jobs did. But, as I said, that can be argued.

I wouldn't argue that no CEO in the past 10 years has been nearly as influential as Jobs, though - I think that can't be disputed. And of course it's not just that his company was successful; it was that he stamped his vision on Apple's products and they were successful because of his single-minded vision.


It's the "not since Jesus" bit in your post that is laughably incorrect.
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The not since Jesus bit was because of the devotion from followers (Apple fans) that Steve enjoyed, I can't think of such devotion towards a businessman before, Steve could inspire and reach out to Apple fans like probably no one since Jesus could inspire the devotion, I don't think it is a totally ridiculous comparison.
 
Kevenly said:
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.
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I think you're mistaking his vision for a kind of blindness to the company he co-founded. You seriously can't believe that he didn't foresee the need to ensure Apple's future after he was no longer part of it? That he didn't embed the creative spirit and the forward drive into the very DNA of the company he quite clearly loved? You can't possibly believe that in every forward step, Apple's designers, engineers and product teams won't always be asking themselves and each other 'what would Steve say about this?'?

If you believe Steve was the heart and soul of Apple, then you can't help but believe he left it with the best chance of thriving and continuing to grow that it was possible to leave it. It won't be the same, but it will continue to be what he made it to be.
 
Woz needs to return to put some excitement into keynotes.

People talk about the future of Apple. I'm not too worried. It will be "ok."

I just want to feel sad right now.
 
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RIP Mr. Jobs. We lost a visionary yesterday who had the confidence to trust his gut and do whatever he thought was best for the task at hand. You changed how people interact with technology and I cannot thank you enough for all the joy you have brought to my life and many others. I hope for apples continued success but without you around I have my doubts on what is in store for the companies future. I hope a lot of your techniques and style have rubbed off onto your fantastic management team you put into place over the years.
 
Patriot24 said:
No wonder Tim and Phil looked horrible yesterday. I'm sure they knew then.

Imagine having to get up on stage and present knowing that your best friend and founder of the company was on his deathbed.
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In hindsight, i totally agree. Was a very sombre presentation. :apple:
 
kendrid said:
Yes, we would still have the world wide web. Berners-Lee would have used a UNIX box instead.
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Tim Berners-Lee on building the first web browser:

"I wrote the program using a NeXT computer. This had the advantage that there were some great tools available -it was a great computing environment in general. In fact, I could do in a couple of months what would take more like a year on other platforms, because on the NeXT, a lot of it was done for me already. There was an application builder to make all the menus as quickly as you could dream them up. there were all the software parts to make a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get - in other words direct manipulation of text on screen as on the printed - or browsed page) word processor. I just had to add hypertext"

So maybe not.

We'll never truly understand the full impact Steve Jobs had on computing, but no one can deny it was HUGE. If you look on the web there are memorials in all big tech companies.
 
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