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Steve Jobs Has Passed Away

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I only got into Apple products less than two years ago with an iMac 27". Until then, I had been a rabid PC user for over 2 decades. Within the week of having bought my iMac, I realized the brilliance in Jobs' creation: how intuitive it is, how user-friendly, how pretty, how efficient, etc.

Ever since I've purchased a few more Apple products, and I will remain as a customer for many years to come.

Thank you Steve for your brilliance. You shaped the technology industry and we all benefited from it.
 
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RIP Steve!!
 
vlug said:
What planet do you live on?

Yes Steve was the visionary and face of Apple but its a business with share holders a board of directors and obligations. The same goes for Samsung, no business that takes another to court which could costs millions of dollars is going to drop such actions out of sympathy or in your eyes guilt/respect for any one person that passes away, even if its Steve Jobs, Bill Gates whoever.

Analogy
2 countries at war, one leader dies the other says lets call it quits eh?

Whatever!
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Dreadful analogy too, Steve was loved and revered throughout the world, a leader of a country is popular with enough members of that country to get elected and that is it
 
By accident I was watching the keynotes from the past years last night(European time).

Even though it was about the first Iphone, I couldn't stop watching it. Steve was such an intelligent, funny and down to earth guy.

When the keynote was over I felt that he wouldn't be around for much longer now and I said to myself: "May you live forever"

With the news from this morning I was really shocked about it.

May you find the rest that you deserve, you will indeed live forever in our minds.

Take care
 
spiderman0616 said:
Steve did a really amazing thing before he died--he made me love Apple again.

I grew up on a mix of Apple and IBM computers, depending on which school I was attending. (Grade school/middle school used PCs, high school/college used Macs.) I didn't really care either way which one I was on, as long as it got the job done. In college, I majored in music. The music department and all of its labs were very Mac oriented, and I had to do a lot of homework in those labs, because I couldn't afford my own computer. (This was during the first part of the non-Jobs years). I always found Mac OS to be a little bit more wonky and weird, but I would use one if that was what was in front of me. When one of the Macs in the lab ate one of my projects that I had spent a week+ working on, I swore off Macs for good. I'm not sure if I didn't save the project correctly, if something went wrong in the lab to cause the failure, or if the Mac just freaked out, but I blamed Apple and continued to blame Apple up until about a year and a half ago.

After college I swore off Macs, iPods, and any other product they made. I discouraged friends and family from buying them. I berated people who bought them anyway. I looked down on people who used and loved their products. I admit this. They were all sheep. They were all followers. Idiots. People who didn't know any better and were living under Steve Jobs' iron fist.

But looking back, I think my basis for this was that under Jobs' return, the Mac was again becoming the better platform for PCs, and that was threatening my livelihood as an IT/tech support person. What will I do for a living if everyone switches to Mac and I have no broken PCs to fix anymore? What are these iPods doing to my beloved music industry? What device is Apple going to come out with next to completely disrupt my life? As Jobs himself put it, my PC based world was crumbling.

Summer of 2010, I was looking for a smartphone. I was still an Apple detractor at the time, but a few months prior had seen the unveiling of the first iPad. Secretly, I wanted one, but would not admit it to anyone. I started shopping for Android smartphones. This would be my first smartphone purchase, and I wanted to get the perfect one for me. I tried a Droid X, a Droid Incredible, a Motorola Droid, an EVO 4G, and couldn't decide on one. But we were in the AT&T store one day to get something taken care of for my wife's phone, and I picked up an iPhone 4. My decision suddenly became clear, as I was now holding in my hand the most solid, sophisticated piece of phone hardware I had ever seen. Screen swipes were fast and fluid. The display was brilliant. Apps loaded instantly. The phone itself was a piece of art. (none of these were behaviors I had seen on any of the Android phones I tried). Sold. Bought one that day, and waited for the backorder for about a month.

My iPhone had some issues that prompted some exchanges at the beginning. I was well taken care of at the Apple stores, and blown away by their customer care. I had the same incident with my iPad--some cosmetic issues that prompted some exchanges. I have voiced frustration about that on these forums, and it still is frustrating. One thing I hope Apple can eventually fix is being able to give me a mint condition unit out of the box, and these cosmetic problems seem to come from their growing business and massive manufacturing operation. But they have always more or less taken care of me. I have an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2 both of which I am very happy with and use every day.

In the last year and 4 months, I have done a 180 and become one of the biggest Apple evangelists you'll meet. I'm currently lobbying my wife for an iMac--I'm ready to make the full switch. There is only one non-Apple device in our house now, and that is my old Windows tower. I'm on my iPad more than any other device I own, and when that's not handy, I'm on my iPhone. I wait for every Apple launch like a kid at Christmas. I encourage friends and family to get on the train with me. I'm an Apple guy. And it's because Steve Jobs' attention to detail and no compromise attitude. He made the hardware so good that I just had to buy it. And I don't regret it.

I'm in it for the long haul. I still believe in Apple, and I still believe they can carry on in his spirit, because Apple itself is his greatest invention.
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I can relate to the second half of this story,

From the start I was an Amiga guy ( loved my A1200+ ) Windows/PC guy who's first comps were rebuilt out of outdated towers that crawled and crashed...

Then after a few years of learning the ropes and becoming part owner of Appetite For Tech I started building higher spec Gaming rigs, Still on Windows and still flustered at the amount of maintenance involved.

Then my Fiance got an iPod followed swiftly by an iPhone. at the time I thought she was just falling for the design and indeed being a 'sheep'

After a few hours with both, I was 'slightly' swayed. And wanted to try the Mac thing out for myself...
My brother was selling his upgraded eMac G4 at the time so I jumped on it - £80 didn't hit the wallet that bad.
Then I bought my oh's iPhone 3Gs when she got her iPhone 4.

After just an hour with my new eMac & the iPhone, I was hooked! And in under a year I now have an iMac 20" And absolutely, Utterly and completely love it, The hardware, The software, The design, Everything!
So Yep, Im another Convert come Evangelist that will never go back to a PC

The thing I love the most is all my Mac stuff just WORKS! No need to open the case and check for hardware faults, Overheating etc...

I also love the way my iMac runs windows for me in bootcamp, Just incase I need it, And it runs smoother than it does on my higher spec pc lol!
Funnely enough though, Ive booted into it like twice, Just to see how it effects the hardware, For an hour tops.

I really can see Windows eventually vanishing my household never to return.

So on a personal note, I am thankful to Steve Jobs for making my computing and AV experience a much nicer, Warmer, Fluid and flawless one!

I too believe in Apple and I feel they will survive this! :)
 
iBug2 said:
I remember buying a phone in 2006, motorola. Don't remember the model, but it was one of the most expensive phones in the store. It was the first time I was actually paying decent money for a mobile phone, before that one I always took the cheapest thing the store gave me.

Anyway, I got that phone, walked home, opened up and saw that the clock was not set correctly.

It took me half an hour to figure out how to set date/time. And I'm a techie.

So it really doesn't take a long time to realize, how much this guy changed the world of phones, and that was just one more thing. :)
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I remember a few months before the iPhone launch I paid a fortune on eBay for one of the Sony Ericsson phones. the P990i I think it was. Colour screen, and the front would flip down to reveal a tiny little plastic qwerty keyboard....had the dreaded stylus as well.

Just a few months apart from the iPhone hitting the world but it was few decades apart. I still have that Sony phone and to look at it now is amazing. The terrible Wap browser, the lousy email client, the incoherent settings page. Just awful, awful stuff.

Steve's launch presentation of the iPhone was his greatest ever performance. In the space of an hour or so, he completely changed the market in a way no other company could have. By the end of that presentation, Nokia, SE, Palm..all those smartphones were completely and totally obsolete. Amazing. Nokia still has not recovered.

I still remember getting my iPhone in late autumn 2007 and being totally blown away by what it could do in a way that nothing I've seen before or since has. The whole multi-touch, the typing, the pinch and manipulate, the browser, the SMS client, everything.

if you want to see Jobs and his brilliance look at that presentation on Youtube. The way he dismisses the stylus and everything that was current then was sheer class. That first time he slid his finger across the screen to open the phone and the audiences intake of breath!!:D

That presentation, the switch to Intel chips at WWDC and the interview with Jobs and Gates at All Things D in 2007, stand out for me and I've watched them over and over the past few years. It's a master at work.

Apple is in good hands, Steve's illness has not been sudden and the company have been planning the transition for some time. There is a defined Apple Way that Fortune magazine described brilliantly in an in depth article earlier in the year. The meeting structure, the flat hierarchy, the concentration on just a very small amount of products. it's all there. Of course they will miss the genius of Jobs, the guidance. But the iPhone, iPad have been game changers, the Mac just gets better and OSX is the rock that will drive the company for many more years to come.

I agree with what someone said, would be a lovely touch if at the next bog presentation, maybe at WWDC, they brought out Woz to introduce things, even just to be on stage for a few minutes to rally the troops etc
 
Yrr81 said:
By accident I was watching the keynotes from the past years last night(European time).

Even though it was about the first Iphone, I couldn't stop watching it. Steve was such an intelligent, funny and down to earth guy.

When the keynote was over I felt that he wouldn't be around for much longer now and I said to myself: "May you live forever"

With the news from this morning I was really shocked about it.

May you find the rest that you deserve, you will indeed live forever in our minds.

Take care
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I think the first iPhone introduction at Macworld was him at his most excited.

I kept watching that 2 hour video so many times over the years, his enthusiasm was so apparent. If there's anything I envy about the guy is how much he loved what he did.
 
CWT1965 said:
I think it is a valid point tbh

I was not going to get the 4S was going to skip a release and get next years redesign but this changes everything and I feel I have to get it now as a tribute to Steve and I am sure I am not the only one that feels that way
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iPhone 4S.....
Steve, this one's for you......
 
Our humble tribute to Steve Jobs, RIP

Everyone here at the binary family is saddened by Steve Job's passing.

We are a very small independent iOS app development team. Without him, we would not exist: we earn our living solely from the App Store. His revolutionary approach allows us, as independent developers, to stand alongside the software giants and offer our creations directly to our fellow Apple users. For this we are truly grateful.

In tribute, we would like to give away our Apple quiz app, "iTrivia: All about Apple" to anyone who wants it for the next four days.

Hope it will bring back fond memories of Steve's history at Apple.
http://itunes.com/app/itriviaallaboutapple
 

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CWT1965 said:
If Bill Gates died tomorrow and Apple were in litigation about Windows 8 and trying to get it banned I am sure out of respect for Gates' memory that they would not wish to appear disrespectful and drop or at the very least suspend the litigation.
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That's an interesting view you have on business, but this is not 19th century Japan.
Business today is cut throat and while many companies share a mutual respect for each other, their bottom line is always priority one.

Steve was a brilliant engineer and CEO. For that he has earned much respect.
But it ends there.

Today is a new day and life as well as business goes on.
 
This may have been mentioned already but with the rate at which comments are being added I really have no way of checking.

As you watch the iPhone 4S announcement there are several times when the camera pans over the audience that you see a seat in the front row marked "reserved" but no one ever sits in it. I assumed that was saved for Steve and sadly we now know why it remained empty. It brings to mind the image of the riderless horse in processions or the Missing Man formation.
 
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I heard about this very late last night (about 1.30am). Happened to be on (I think) Mashable and saw a very small B&W pic of Steve on the front page with the text "Steve Jobs has died", and all I thought was "what sort of sick **** has hacked the site with a fake story like that?".

And then I thought, well, he *is* ill...so I headed over here and saw the worst, that it was true.

It's one of the times that you can be not surprised but still shocked. I mean sure, the signs were all there that Steve didn't have so much time left, but I know from bitter experience how hopes can rise and then be dashed. Cancer took my sister at almost the same age as Steve. It's a cruel, cruel killer no matter who you are and I've every sympathy for his family and friends.

I hope his legacy lives on and flourishes. My Apple journey started in 1993 trying to get used to Quark and Photoshop on, IIRC, a Quadra. Stayed in the business till about 97 and went away. Bought an iPod in 2004 and was later wowed by the iMac G5... by now I have quite a few Macs, assorted iPods and iPhones around the house, some of which actually earn me money again. Interestingly, it was the consumer "iToys" that brought me back into the fold.

Thanks, Steve. And rest in peace.
 
RIP Steve

thanks Steve for your great products and inspiration!!
its really sad to see you go so early :(

You will be missed!
 
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Apple Seeds

Steve has planted many apple seeds among us.
His legacy will live on.
Thank you Steve.
 
He will live on in technology. I'm using an iMac right now. He will always be remembered.

I'm not going to start crying because I didn't know him personally but it is a sad day for geeks.

I feel bad for his friends and family :(

:apple:
 
"Three Apples changed the World, 1st one seduced Eve, 2nd fell on Newton and the 3rd was offered to the World half bitten by Steve Jobs"
 
CWT1965 said:
The iPhone 4S is the last work released in Steve's life so in that sense it is a shrine to him, it is also the 4S as in (for Steve) so of all Apple products that have ever been released this is the most special one now even if it is not the most innovative so for Samsung to try and get it banned in some countries and issue lawsuits against Apple about the phone is now incredibly disrespectful and tasteless and if Samsung have a shred of honour they will tear up those lawsuits.
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As soon as Apple drops it's lawsuits against Samsung I'm sure they would do the same.
 
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