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Steve Jobs Has Passed Away
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Thats completely out of context. He was young, denied it for a short period of time, and then made it right. He made a mistake... and you are telling me you have never made a mistake?
So unless you personally knew him... be careful what you say about him or anyone.
We are all fallible to the human condition... so don't go pointing fingers.
Honestly very upset i will miss his vision and his remarkable keynotes that will never be matched. R.I.P Mr. Jobs.
Thank you Steve for sharing your spirit and vision with the world. You've changed the way we work, communicate, play, create, live, and even dream. When I think back many years ago to the day I first turned on my 1MB Mac Plus, I remember magic coming out of that little beige box. Who knew through all these years, that technology could become even more magical and beautiful? Here's to the crazy ones
I was a dedicated Windows PC girl for years. Macs were nothing but overpriced colourful toys, not serious machines, just for show. When the iPod touch was introduced my daughter asked for one for her birthday. I went to the store with the intention of getting her one, but I really didn't want to give my hard earned money to Apple. At the store the salesperson actually steered me to another MP3 player, it was cheaper, had better sound and if she wasn't into surfing the web on the player then I would be better off with the cheaper one. I bought the other one, she said it was fine, this player fit better in her pocket and sounded great. A year and half later she could get 2 hours of playtime for every 8 hours of charge time and was more frustrated with it then anything else.
Then in 2009 I started thinking about the touch again, but for me this time. It was right before the September event so I checked out Steve's keynote. I was really impressed with what I saw. The man had great stage presence and I was captivated from start to finish. Bought the touch the day it was available and I was instantly blown away with the quality of this little gadget from the build to the software. And the App store, Wow!
Christmas that year saw my son with his own touch and my daughter finally got her iPod, the new nano. I have owned many computers and other gadgets over the years, but I had never been so impressed with a gadget as I was with the iPod.
In early 2010 I decided that it was time to replace that POS Vista PC that was taking up space on my desk and causing me more frustration then anything else. If the iPod was great then maybe the Mac computers were good too. Bought my first iMac, brought it home and within 10 minutes it was registered, updated and ready to go. And I only had one chord hanging out the back, and no box on the floor. For the first three days I was pretty sure I was going to take it back. It was a gorgeous machine and that screen was amazing but Snow Leopard? How was I going to get used to that? By the fourth day it clicked and seemed like second nature, I was in love and questioned what had taken me so long to try one of these amazing computers. The best part was that everything just worked!
Couple of months later my daughters 18 month old POS laptop bit the dust. Replaced it with a Macbook. She hadn't really liked the iMac and didn't use it but after a week with the Macbook she was fully converted as well. 18 months later that Macbook works just as well as the day she got it and it's one of her most prized possessions. Then my son needed his first machine and opted for the mac mini.
Since introducing Macs into the family everyone is so much more creative. I've always made the home movies and kept the digital library but with the kids working on Macs they now put together their own slideshows, movies, digital graphics, you name it, they do it and need very little help in the process. My son now wants to pursue a career in digital graphic design.
Last year I decided to get my first smart phone. I did my research, and checked out all the options but in the end it was a no brainer. After seeing the iPhone 4 presentation the decision was made.
Bottom line, I'm so glad I decided to take a chance with Apple and Steve Jobs. His vision and drive have given us so much and made such huge differences in so many of our lives. I realize he didn't do it all on his own, he surrounded himself with wonderful, talented and creative people who share his vision and are now left to carry it forward into the future. For our sakes I hope they don't loose track of what Apple is and what it stands for.
My heart and prayers go out to his family. These last few years must have been so hard for them, and their loss must cut very deep.
RIP Steve Jobs and thank you.
Then in 2009 I started thinking about the touch again, but for me this time. It was right before the September event so I checked out Steve's keynote. I was really impressed with what I saw. The man had great stage presence and I was captivated from start to finish. Bought the touch the day it was available and I was instantly blown away with the quality of this little gadget from the build to the software. And the App store, Wow!
Christmas that year saw my son with his own touch and my daughter finally got her iPod, the new nano. I have owned many computers and other gadgets over the years, but I had never been so impressed with a gadget as I was with the iPod.
In early 2010 I decided that it was time to replace that POS Vista PC that was taking up space on my desk and causing me more frustration then anything else. If the iPod was great then maybe the Mac computers were good too. Bought my first iMac, brought it home and within 10 minutes it was registered, updated and ready to go. And I only had one chord hanging out the back, and no box on the floor. For the first three days I was pretty sure I was going to take it back. It was a gorgeous machine and that screen was amazing but Snow Leopard? How was I going to get used to that? By the fourth day it clicked and seemed like second nature, I was in love and questioned what had taken me so long to try one of these amazing computers. The best part was that everything just worked!
Couple of months later my daughters 18 month old POS laptop bit the dust. Replaced it with a Macbook. She hadn't really liked the iMac and didn't use it but after a week with the Macbook she was fully converted as well. 18 months later that Macbook works just as well as the day she got it and it's one of her most prized possessions. Then my son needed his first machine and opted for the mac mini.
Since introducing Macs into the family everyone is so much more creative. I've always made the home movies and kept the digital library but with the kids working on Macs they now put together their own slideshows, movies, digital graphics, you name it, they do it and need very little help in the process. My son now wants to pursue a career in digital graphic design.
Last year I decided to get my first smart phone. I did my research, and checked out all the options but in the end it was a no brainer. After seeing the iPhone 4 presentation the decision was made.
Bottom line, I'm so glad I decided to take a chance with Apple and Steve Jobs. His vision and drive have given us so much and made such huge differences in so many of our lives. I realize he didn't do it all on his own, he surrounded himself with wonderful, talented and creative people who share his vision and are now left to carry it forward into the future. For our sakes I hope they don't loose track of what Apple is and what it stands for.
My heart and prayers go out to his family. These last few years must have been so hard for them, and their loss must cut very deep.
RIP Steve Jobs and thank you.
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Lost...
I feel like I have lost a companion on a fantastic journey over the last 30 years.
I've been with you from the very early days and am more proud than ever of one of my most prized processions. My 1984 Macintosh.
It's very strange feeling such a great loss over a man I never met.
Thank you so much Steve. For everything....
I feel like I have lost a companion on a fantastic journey over the last 30 years.
I've been with you from the very early days and am more proud than ever of one of my most prized processions. My 1984 Macintosh.
It's very strange feeling such a great loss over a man I never met.
Thank you so much Steve. For everything....
Personally, I always thought that Steve Jobs could have been a better human being because of the way he treated others, especially his eldest child and the child's mother until it was proven that he was indeed her father as well as his birth parents even though he reconciled with his mother and sisters, but it's not known if he ever reconciled with his father even though it wasn't his fault, but rather his maternal grandfather's fault in the first place. I also thought that he came across as arrogant, self-centered and downright rude towards people, especially people who bought his products.
To be honest, I never thought of him as a visionary or a creative genius (or God as some people would think of him as, and those who think of him that way are in serious need of help!), but I do have to admit, if grudgingly, that he was a damn good businessman and marketer at the end of the day (even if I wasn't persuaded to buy a MacBook because they're way too expensive or an iPhone because I could get a much better phone on an upgrade than I could with an iPhone).
Also, I guess that if it wasn't for him and the Woz (who deserves just as much respect as Jobs), technology would be a lot more different than it is now, especially where rival OSes are concerned for both phones and computers.
Article about Steve Jobs' birth father; Abdulfattah John Jandali
The linked article makes for VERY interesting reading concerning Jobs' birth father.
I truly, sincerely hope that he made his peace with his father before the end as it would have been a shame if he was too bitter not to forgive him, even though he didn't know at the time that he had been born and the mother was forced into giving Steve up for adoption because of her tyrant of a father who actually died a few months later.
Some people would actually say it was Karma that Jobs got what he deserved with being struck down with cancer because of the way he treated others, but it's just a twist of fate that it happened and I know how his family felt as my grandmother who I was very close to as she was more like a mother to me than my own mother died of cancer as well (although it wasn't revealed that she had cancer until after they had down tests on her body).
At the end of the day, whether you're an Apple fanboy/girl (or one who's a bit TOO overenthusiastic about their products) or someone who doesn't have an Apple product but has respect for Jobs', no matter how big or small or someone who owns at least one Apple product but at the same time doesn't like how Apple operates, at least we should be united in saying RIP to a guy who was too controversial for his own good, but at the same time he gave a lot of people what they wanted, even if they didn't know that they wanted it or that he knew best, even if it wasn't what they wanted.
RIP Steve Jobs - Marketing and Business Genius.
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The guy who said that Jobs' was a crappy human being has a very valid point about Jobs' past in that he wasn't willing to support his daughter until he was made to take a DNA test.
We've all made mistakes. Don't tell me that YOU haven't made any mistakes in your life that you've regretted.
The one thing that really scares me is that a lot of people in various threads and on sites like Facebook are practically calling Jobs' a saint, which to me as a Catholic is a very bad thing when there are people out there who truly deserve to be called saints, especially those who work their hardest out there for the good of Humanity, especially scientists and doctors.
To be honest, I never thought of him as a visionary or a creative genius (or God as some people would think of him as, and those who think of him that way are in serious need of help!), but I do have to admit, if grudgingly, that he was a damn good businessman and marketer at the end of the day (even if I wasn't persuaded to buy a MacBook because they're way too expensive or an iPhone because I could get a much better phone on an upgrade than I could with an iPhone).
Also, I guess that if it wasn't for him and the Woz (who deserves just as much respect as Jobs), technology would be a lot more different than it is now, especially where rival OSes are concerned for both phones and computers.
Article about Steve Jobs' birth father; Abdulfattah John Jandali
The linked article makes for VERY interesting reading concerning Jobs' birth father.
I truly, sincerely hope that he made his peace with his father before the end as it would have been a shame if he was too bitter not to forgive him, even though he didn't know at the time that he had been born and the mother was forced into giving Steve up for adoption because of her tyrant of a father who actually died a few months later.
Some people would actually say it was Karma that Jobs got what he deserved with being struck down with cancer because of the way he treated others, but it's just a twist of fate that it happened and I know how his family felt as my grandmother who I was very close to as she was more like a mother to me than my own mother died of cancer as well (although it wasn't revealed that she had cancer until after they had down tests on her body).
At the end of the day, whether you're an Apple fanboy/girl (or one who's a bit TOO overenthusiastic about their products) or someone who doesn't have an Apple product but has respect for Jobs', no matter how big or small or someone who owns at least one Apple product but at the same time doesn't like how Apple operates, at least we should be united in saying RIP to a guy who was too controversial for his own good, but at the same time he gave a lot of people what they wanted, even if they didn't know that they wanted it or that he knew best, even if it wasn't what they wanted.
RIP Steve Jobs - Marketing and Business Genius.
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The guy who said that Jobs' was a crappy human being has a very valid point about Jobs' past in that he wasn't willing to support his daughter until he was made to take a DNA test.
We've all made mistakes. Don't tell me that YOU haven't made any mistakes in your life that you've regretted.
The one thing that really scares me is that a lot of people in various threads and on sites like Facebook are practically calling Jobs' a saint, which to me as a Catholic is a very bad thing when there are people out there who truly deserve to be called saints, especially those who work their hardest out there for the good of Humanity, especially scientists and doctors.
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I cried for a hero.
Deep sadness....Deep gratitude.
You touched the lives of millions.
Gave technology a soul and changed the world.
I see you walking around in all these iphones.
I'm expecting life on Earth to really start improving now
as you get busy on the new OS.
Eternally in our hearts.
Much ilove
Deep sadness....Deep gratitude.
You touched the lives of millions.
Gave technology a soul and changed the world.
I see you walking around in all these iphones.
I'm expecting life on Earth to really start improving now
as you get busy on the new OS.
Eternally in our hearts.
Much ilove
How can the passing of someone who doesn't know you be so painful?
I never met Steve Jobs, he has no idea of my name or who I am. Yet, It feels like I've lost a family member. As a teenager, the first computer I learned to program on was the Apple II's I used in my high school. To this day I can still remember writing a crude Breakout game in BASIC in the Apple II's LO-RES graphics. I remember a classmate who I used to argue with about home computers (he was a TRS-80 fan) coming back to our high school 6 months after starting his freshman year to show off his new Mac which was part of the tuition at Drexel University shortly after it was introduced. The entire classroom of high school computer geeks was astounded. It was as if cavemen had just been shown a flat screen TV. It wasn't just what it could do, but HOW it went about letting you do things. That was the first taste I got of how Steve Jobs envisioned things. The Mac was beautiful but was secondary to what you wanted to do. Steve wanted it to be an attractive interface that simply let you do what was in your imagination without having to think about HOW you did it. I used Macs for years until a job forced me to have a PC. It was the worst 3 years of my life, it was frustrating, slow, ugly. I switched back to an aluminum Powerbook and never looked at a PC again. The powerbook became an iMac, then the iPod and iTunes joined it. (Carrying EVERY song you own in your pocket??? That still makes me feel like Captain Picard) I added Macbook, I added other iPods...I bought them as presents for friends on Christmas and Birthdays. (NOTHING makes people smile like opening a gift with an Apple logo on it.) I got friends to try out Macs, I converted frustrated PC friends and watched their prejudices melt as they started to see the light. I have Apple TV (mostly to run my music through my home entertainment system while controlling from anywhere in the house.) I have a collection of different iPods including a color photo model that is in a car audio system and is now what?? 6 years old? This year I added an Ipad 2..I still giggle when i walk into the Apple store and see how quickly they put a paid for piece of electronics in your hand without every getting near a cash register...Every single memory and story I have with Apple products make me think of Steve and how focuses he was on what WE wanted to be able to do. The products get all of our attention but they are still just the gateway Steven's imagination has given us to be able to do, create and interact with the world without having to think about how we do it. They are the computer equivalent to a Toyota Camry or Honda Accord...a simple appliance that lets us get where we want to go without thinking much about it, ACCEPT they look and feel like Ferrari's. Steve somehow figured out what WE all wanted and imagined before WE even knew we were looking for it. That was his true gift, his insight for where we were all going and finding a way to help us get there. His inventions have made me smile more than any other product I've ever owned. I won't touch any of them again without a moment of sadness remembering that he isn't here anymore. I feel like I've lost an older brother that showed me the way.
I never met Steve Jobs, he has no idea of my name or who I am. Yet, It feels like I've lost a family member. As a teenager, the first computer I learned to program on was the Apple II's I used in my high school. To this day I can still remember writing a crude Breakout game in BASIC in the Apple II's LO-RES graphics. I remember a classmate who I used to argue with about home computers (he was a TRS-80 fan) coming back to our high school 6 months after starting his freshman year to show off his new Mac which was part of the tuition at Drexel University shortly after it was introduced. The entire classroom of high school computer geeks was astounded. It was as if cavemen had just been shown a flat screen TV. It wasn't just what it could do, but HOW it went about letting you do things. That was the first taste I got of how Steve Jobs envisioned things. The Mac was beautiful but was secondary to what you wanted to do. Steve wanted it to be an attractive interface that simply let you do what was in your imagination without having to think about HOW you did it. I used Macs for years until a job forced me to have a PC. It was the worst 3 years of my life, it was frustrating, slow, ugly. I switched back to an aluminum Powerbook and never looked at a PC again. The powerbook became an iMac, then the iPod and iTunes joined it. (Carrying EVERY song you own in your pocket??? That still makes me feel like Captain Picard) I added Macbook, I added other iPods...I bought them as presents for friends on Christmas and Birthdays. (NOTHING makes people smile like opening a gift with an Apple logo on it.) I got friends to try out Macs, I converted frustrated PC friends and watched their prejudices melt as they started to see the light. I have Apple TV (mostly to run my music through my home entertainment system while controlling from anywhere in the house.) I have a collection of different iPods including a color photo model that is in a car audio system and is now what?? 6 years old? This year I added an Ipad 2..I still giggle when i walk into the Apple store and see how quickly they put a paid for piece of electronics in your hand without every getting near a cash register...Every single memory and story I have with Apple products make me think of Steve and how focuses he was on what WE wanted to be able to do. The products get all of our attention but they are still just the gateway Steven's imagination has given us to be able to do, create and interact with the world without having to think about how we do it. They are the computer equivalent to a Toyota Camry or Honda Accord...a simple appliance that lets us get where we want to go without thinking much about it, ACCEPT they look and feel like Ferrari's. Steve somehow figured out what WE all wanted and imagined before WE even knew we were looking for it. That was his true gift, his insight for where we were all going and finding a way to help us get there. His inventions have made me smile more than any other product I've ever owned. I won't touch any of them again without a moment of sadness remembering that he isn't here anymore. I feel like I've lost an older brother that showed me the way.
You're definitely right there, my friend where Bill Gates is concerned. Even though he has his faults, he's done way more for Humanity in that he and his wife through their Foundation have donated billions to help find cures for things like Malaria (for example, they made a donation to Liverpool University a year or two back to help discover a cure for the condition , in fact the University was a pioneer in the discovery of Malaria) as well as end world hunger.
I'm sure Jobs' made donations to charity over the years, but at the same time, he came across as being an cold, uncaring man who worshipped at the altar of profit above all other things whereas Bill Gates was willing to use the majority of his fortune to help people genuinely, and that is why a lot of people will be really sad when his passing comes.
As one person in this thread said, this shouldn't be a pissing or ass-kissing contest about which man was better because in their own way, they were both pioneers. Jobs' when it came to business and marketing and Gates' when it comes to computers and allowing people to create their own custom computers.
I've been so down since I learned of Steve's passing Wednesday. I never met the man, yet I can't stop crying over his loss. Our loss really. What a great man. The world needs more leaders like him. Imagine what we could do if our politicians had his vision and principle?
I hope the pain and suffering he had to deal with for the last 8 years is truly over now and he's in a better place. For the rest of us, the world is a little smaller today. Smaller and sadder.
I hope the pain and suffering he had to deal with for the last 8 years is truly over now and he's in a better place. For the rest of us, the world is a little smaller today. Smaller and sadder.
I've noticed that there are a couple of Macrumors readers that have worked with him, or had the chance to know him personally.
Given that Macrumors is posting interesting articles about the relationship people had with Steve Jobs, maybe it would be just to set up a seperate forum discussion inviting those who knew him to post their thoughts and experiences.
Given that Macrumors is posting interesting articles about the relationship people had with Steve Jobs, maybe it would be just to set up a seperate forum discussion inviting those who knew him to post their thoughts and experiences.
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