Steve Jobs Has Passed Away

[davelanger]

RIP and not sure if this has been shown yet but

 

[benhughes]

Thanks for posting my image! I don't mind it being used here, but here's a link to the original just for crediting purposes.
http://obh.me/pmz6QT

 

[zweigand]

Rest in peace, Steve.

I only made it to one Macworld …the launch of the iPhone.

http://cl.ly/0o2g2Q2J3H3y2p111J1C

That's the closest I ever came to meeting the man who shaped the tech/professional part of my life.

I revere that experience.

 

[0dev]

All these tributes and images are making me emotional again.

Steve, you have touched the world and you will be missed.

You will never be gone in spirit; you'll live on in Apple forever.

R.I.P.

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Even IMDB has a link on their home page that links to Apple's website...

Amazon are paying their tributes on the homepage too.

 

[sgosine]

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.

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.

Thats the best you could come up with? Your short sightedness and ignorance are both sad and alarming. I feel sorry for you...

 

[0dev]

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.

Scientists and doctors both use Apple technology to help with their work. Apple demonstrated such uses of the iPad before they announced the iPad 2.

What has Catholicism got to do with anything? Steve was a Buddhist.

 

[hardcoreapple]

hero,icon,trendsetter I salute Steve Jobs

as he was and always everyone in this world are agree since d birth of imac there's gonna have a big revolution are coming, I personally begin using apple product for the first time in this year, yet it really give me 0% of trouble compare to windows....... without Steve Jobs in this millennium life won't be easier....... yet he press hard enough for others competitors to make this world a better place....... if he not the trendsetter there will no one want to follow his footsteps.... others are not genius as him so I sees a lot of competitors are truly copycat that lazy enough to use brains to think...... what they know is to make more money for themselves only is what I call selfish act...... Steve Jobs do contribute a lots to the this world, I agree nobody is perfect ....... Steve Jobs will always be an hero of IT an Icon will always be remember..... thanx for all the creation that in this world peoples has enjoy....... as for Apple company I wish you all the best n always surprise us in this world make life easier thanx

 

[jesswebster]

RIP Steve. Thanks for all you gave to the world.

Legend.

 

[Holly Gray]

Steve Jobs was one of the most brilliant innovators, visionaries, and human beings of recent years. Many men with upper-class backgrounds, nuclear families, and Ivy alma maters have failed to make as profound an impact on the world as one adopted college dropout. Vale, and think different in heaven.

I must admit, I'm disgusted by the reactions of certain members of the open-source community. I don't believe that Steve Jobs was a saint. I don't believe he was a god. I don't believe he was perfect. But, whether or not you approve of his business ethics, whether or not you like his products, no human being, save those in the vein of Hitler or bin Laden, is better gone.

 

[KingCrimson]

Steve Jobs was one of the most brilliant innovators, visionaries, and human beings of recent years. Many men with upper-class backgrounds, nuclear families, and Ivy alma maters have failed to make as profound an impact on the world as one adopted college dropout. Vale, and think different in heaven.

I must admit, I'm disgusted by the reactions of certain members of the open-source community. I don't believe that Steve Jobs was a saint. I don't believe he was a god. I don't believe he was perfect. But, whether or not you approve of his business ethics, whether or not you like his products, no human being, save those in the vein of Hitler or bin Laden, is better gone.

Or maybe people are disgusted by the idol-worship.

 

[Holly Gray]

Or maybe people are disgusted by the idol-worship.

Oh, I've never worshipped Steve Jobs. I don't believe in worshipping people. Some of the deification that has been going on disturbs me, too. However, can't that be expressed with words to the effect of "Steve Jobs was not a god" rather than "Steve Jobs is better gone"? The latter sentiment bears no resemblance to the former, and I don't see how you equate them.

 

[KingCrimson]

Oh, I've never worshipped Steve Jobs. I don't believe in worshipping people. Some of the deification that has been going on disturbs me, too. However, can't that be expressed with words to the effect of "Steve Jobs was not a god" rather than "Steve Jobs is better gone"? The latter sentiment bears no resemblance to the former, and I don't see how you equate them.

More of what you said is fine. But so many of the comments here are just OTT. Like the guy who said he never cried for a celebrity until now. *GROAN*

 

[uaecasher]

Here is a list of my fav quotes of steve jobs, may he rest in peace.

Fav Steve Jobs Quotes

 

[Savor]

Steve Jobs was a such a cool, badass in the tech industry.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/07/noah-wyle-steve-jobs/?section=magazines_fortune

Noah Wyle on playing Steve Jobs
October 7, 2011: 3:49 PM ET

Actor Noah Wyle, best-known for playing Dr. John Carter on television's "E.R," also played Steve Jobs in TNT's "Pirates of Silicon Valley" in 1999, a cult hit among the technorati.

FORTUNE -- The actor Noah Wyle, best-known for playing Dr. John Carter on television's "E.R," also played Steve Jobs in TNT's "Pirates of Silicon Valley" in 1999, a cult hit among the technorati. Fortune contributor David A. Kaplan spoke with Wyle exclusively in April 2009 on the day ER taped its series finale. Here is an edited transcript of their conversation. Asterisks indicate breaks of time in the interview. A trailer for the film appears below.

I had apprehensions of playing Jobs in "Pirates of Silicon Valley." TNT was really excited about me taking the part, but I had worries I usually didn't have as an actor. I knew something about him and I had the script, but I couldn't really get a beat on the guy until they sent me the documentary, "Revenge of the Nerds." Then it was "Ohmigod! I've never seen anything like this. I have to play this guy." I was so taken by his presence, his confidence, smugness, smartness, ego, and his story's trajectory. He seemed to be the most Shakespearean figure in American culture in the last 50 years I could think of – the rise of, the fall of, and the return of. The truest definition of a tragic hero—but you get the 'bonus round' that F. Scott Fitzgerald said didn't exist. Jobs has had one hell of a second act.

* * *

We were under a very strict directive not to contact the people we were playing for fear that they would find something libelous in the script and shut the production down. So I didn't. The day after the movie aired [in 1999], I was sitting in my living room and my phone with what I thought was my unlisted phone number rang.

"Noah?" said the voice.

"Yes," I said.

"This is Steve Jobs."

My heart started beating through my shirt. And he said—and I've memorized this—"I'm just calling to tell you I thought you did a good job. I hated the movie, I hated the script, I think if you had spent a little more time and a little more money and maybe a little more attention to detail, you could have had something there. But you were good."

And all I could say was, "Thank you. Sir."

"Listen, we do this thing every year called the Macworld convention. It's in New York, at the Javits Center. There will be about 10,000 people there. And I think it would be hilarious if you came out on stage dressed as me and did the first five minutes of my keynote address. Are you interested?"

"Absolutely!"

So he bought me a plane ticket to New York the next month and I went over to the Four Seasons Hotel, went up to his room, knocked on his door, and there I was staring face-to-face with Steve Jobs, and he looked me up and down from my toes to the top of my head, and smiled, "Yeah, you do look like me."

He invited me into his room. It was just he and I. He had been shopping that day and bought me a matching pair of blue jeans and a black turtleneck sweater and matching round eyeglasses. He'd written a sketch for us to perform the next day at Macworld. I'd put my hands together in a kind of Jobs-like silent-prayer pose and then launch into his keynote. And then a few minutes into the address he'd come storming onto the stage and say, "Wyle, you don't have me at all! What the hell are you doing? First I pick up my slide-clicker and then I put my hands together." He'd say, "Ladies and gentlemen, Noah Wyle!" And then he'd kick me off the stage and take over, introducing the latest piece of Apple technology.

And that's exactly how we did it. The first few rows, I think, could obviously tell it wasn't him, but most others didn't know at all. And there was this growing ripple of laughter throughout the auditorium when people got what was happening. I honestly had had no idea what to expect: I thought the whole thing might be an ambush—that he'd get me to his event and that what he said we were going to do in fact wasn't what we were going to do, and I would somehow be humiliated. But he stayed on script and was very kind to me. You realized this is why he's so successful. He realized very quickly he either could come out with a paragraph in a newspaper disavowing the movie or co-opt it and get me to his event and use the movie to get his own publicity. Once a week I still hear from somebody that they saw that keynote address on YouTube. Punch in my name in YouTube and this pops up immediately.

Anyway, when the event was over, he invited me to have dinner with him at a soba-noodle shop in downtown Manhattan. My wife was invited, too, along with his executive-design team. And I kick myself over what happened next. They all—I don't want to say they live in fear of him—are certainly are subservient to his will and whim. But I had no dog in the race I felt much freer to crack jokes and engage him in conversation, which surprised them a bit. At a certain point in the meal, out of nowhere, he turned to his designers and said, "You know what I want to make?" And they all snapped their heads around and replied, What, Steve? What, Steve?"

"You know those picture frames that has my kid in his baseball cap and uniform?"

"Yeah, Steve! Yeah, Steve! We know picture frames!"

"Well, I want to make a picture frame where the picture's not a picture, but a little movie of the kid swinging the bat and hitting the ball. Can we do that?"

"We can do that, Steve!" said the designers in unison.

"I'll show you what I mean."

And he took his napkin and started sketching out the schematics and he passed the napkin around the table. They all approved the design – nobody touched it, there were no changes or suggestions. The check soon came and we started to get up the leave—and the napkin just sat there on the table. I thought to myself, "I got to take that napkin" and my hand was on it, but Steve called from the door and asked, "Noah, you want to share a cab with me?" So I put the napkin down. I could have had an Edison original.

* * *

I think we've only spoken one time since then. He was going to be in L.A. and he wanted to visit the set of "E.R." But I never heard from it about it. Another time I e-mailed him that we were switching all the computers on the emergency-room set and did he want them to be Apples instead of the Gateways the producers were proposing. But I never heard back from him on that.

* * *

I use a G4 Powerbook. I bought it myself! I didn't even get the Mac they were debuting at that Macworld! [Wyle did the appearance for free.]

 

[ZimTheMan]

More of what you said is fine. But so many of the comments here are just OTT. Like the guy who said he never cried for a celebrity until now. *GROAN*

This is the problem I'm having. Does it reflect positively on our society that, instead of honoring those who dedicate their lives to service without anything in return, we weep for those who dedicate their lives to profit and providing high quality personal devices?

I don't think so.

 

[partyBoy]

Oh, I've never worshipped Steve Jobs. I don't believe in worshipping people. Some of the deification that has been going on disturbs me, too. However, can't that be expressed with words to the effect of "Steve Jobs was not a god" rather than "Steve Jobs is better gone"? The latter sentiment bears no resemblance to the former, and I don't see how you equate them.

Ohh no, not another noob...

 

[0229876]

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[vgjfelix]

http://youtu.be/A5tp56chD-g is all I have to say.

Felix

 

[toothpaste]

Wait a second im on your side, read carefully what i typed before posting criticism...

I did read what you wrote, but you correcting someone else is not appropriate at this time. There will always be people that say the most inappropriate things at the worst times. Ignoring is usually a better way to silence an instigator.

As for my comment, read it as well. I wasn't picking an argument I was stating say your peace for Steve and ignore the stupidity. That's all.

 

[ryanasimov]

Person of the year.

Every media outlet will step on each other to be the first to declare "Steve Jobs: Person of the Year".

 

[Kendo]

How is it possible that I miss a person so much and have never met him before?

In hindsight I now realize that I looked forward to seeing Steve just as much as I looked forward to the new products he was unveiling. Where else in the world would you see your favorite person in the world unveil your favorite products in the world, all at the same time?

 

[WilliamG]

Colbert just did a nice little section about him. Misted up at the end, too.

I'm actually aghast that people took Colbert's little segment on Steve Jobs as anything other than showmanship. If you watch the video here:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/07/steve-jobs-2/

You'll notice he hits "reply" (with one tap, which isn't possible in the Mail app) and types out a message without any trouble in very little time. Go try and do the same thing on your iPad. It'll be very different. "Send" was obviously at the top right, indicating it was the Mail app. Also, he couldn't type all that with barely any movement of his hands. I have large hands and even I can't do that.

Anyway, while I find Colbert very funny, his faux dedication to Jobs did not sit well with me...

 

[b166er]

Steve accomplished/influenced the world more in just the past 4 years than most will in a lifetime.

I know we haven't seen the last of his genius- I'm sure his legacy will continue on with the next few major releases.

It's a damn shame.

 

[RWinOR]

This is the problem I'm having. Does it reflect positively on our society that, instead of honoring those who dedicate their lives to service without anything in return, we weep for those who dedicate their lives to profit and providing high quality personal devices?

I don't think so.

We as civilized humans, will morn anyone who has touched or influenced our lives personally. Do we feel bad for the solders, police, and firefighters etc. Of coarse we do, we morn them collectively. However you will not see the same public demonstration, as most people do not have a connection with the solder or said firefighter. If you lived in a city that had a fallen Police Officer or FF, you would see that city morn, you would not see the same global demonstrations.

When each of us pass on, we will most likely not have this either, as most of us have only touched those closest to us, to any real level.

Steve had a direct impact on generations and millions, his innovations have helped to shape an entire industry which did not exist before he and several others came along.

He has had a positive affect on civilization, and humanity as a whole. No one is telling you to shed a tear if you do not want to. But do not belittle those who had respect, admiration and will miss him.

I for one am thankful he was here, that he helped shape an industry, and a way of life. Because of him and the other techno giants, I have a job and can feed my family, and buy a home.

I will miss him, and pray he will RIP.

 

[Mal]

I'm actually aghast that people took Colbert's little segment on Steve Jobs as anything other than showmanship. If you watch the video here:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/07/steve-jobs-2/

You'll notice he hits "reply" (with one tap, which isn't possible in the Mail app) and types out a message without any trouble in very little time. Go try and do the same thing on your iPad. It'll be very different. "Send" was obviously at the top right, indicating it was the Mail app. Also, he couldn't type all that with barely any movement of his hands. I have large hands and even I can't do that.

Anyway, while I find Colbert very funny, his faux dedication to Jobs did not sit well with me...

I watched that clip too, and I've seen a lot of Colbert. He was dead serious at the end, and the fact you think he couldn't have thumb-typed that only reveals ignorance. Please show some respect right now.

jW