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Steve Jobs Leaves Apple's Pipeline with Four Years of Products

KingCrimson said:
Not anymore. Steve Jobs failed to anticipate MSFT's Metro UI approach at all. In fact he never made one comment about it. I suspect it burned him up that Microsoft of all companies created a UI that is so classy and tasteful! :D
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Yep, just like he failed to comment on Zune. Why comment on anything from Microsoft? Waste of time for Steve.
 
The more prescient among us already knew this. Apple had (and does have) the next several years mapped out. The industry is theirs to direct.

KingCrimson said:
Not anymore. Steve Jobs failed to anticipate MSFT's Metro UI approach at all. In fact he never made one comment about it. I suspect it burned him up that Microsoft of all companies created a UI that is so classy and tasteful! :D
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You mean a failed UI from a failed device? Why on earth would Apple want anything to do with that? What is there to anticipate about several years' worth of bumbling design?

Classy and tasteful?? Sure, if you're Flava Flav on a bender.

Nearly everything MS does outside of gaming and the enterprise is third-rate. Always has been. And the jury is still out on that enterprise bit.
 
Not sure if or when Apple would move in this direction -- especially since it would compete with two of their most popular products -- but I would love to see a combination MacBook Air and iPad (with a removable keyboard, for example.) Count me as one the many people that love both of these devices (well, at least a MacBook Pro, haven't bought an MBA yet but that's next), and am always wondering which one to carry around.
 
appleguy123 said:
How can he predict four years into the future? I mean, Steve Jobs was totally brilliant, but who knows where technology will go in that time?
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For Steve Jobs, technology are just means to implement an idea. And that 4 years product pipeline he left was probably in form of design ideas, discussing general ways of how devices should interact with users. So if there some unexpected technology comes up, then it will only help Apple, because maybe it will allow those ideas to be implemented sooner, so that we will get our new revolutionary Apple devices ahead of the schedule.
 
appleguy123 said:
How can he predict four years into the future? I mean, Steve Jobs was totally brilliant, but who knows where technology will go in that time?
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we're probably using Apple products now that have been in development for over 4 years. Steve once said that Apple was developing the iPad in the early 2000's (way before the iPhone) ;)
 
Apple may still have his vision for the next four years, but who can replace his CHARISMA?

One of the best things about Apple is their marketing. "The Crazy Ones" 1997 ad narrated by Steve is probably the greatest commercial I have ever seen even if it was unaired. Much better than when Richard Dreyfuss narrated it.

I always admired Steve Jobs because he had ancient Asian beliefs in him. From his choice of Buddhism to how the Japanese can see the finest details in anything. His outlook in life was similar to mines. My dad is an engineering wizard who loves to take things apart and then fix them. A tinkerer, but he can simplify it if he wanted to. But mom grew up business-oriented and posh. Elegant and classy. That's why Apple products have appealed to me. Simple and classy.

I am going to miss Steve when he gets on-stage for a keynote. Apple lost its voice and marketing appeal. He goes up there and anything he says is so convincing because he is so CONFIDENT at himself and the product he is going to introduce to us. The magnetic force field and that Jedi mind trick that once the keynote is done, you are already marking your calender for the preorder. Such a confident man. Apple lost its SWAGGER. It is like Michael Jordan when he left the Bulls for nearly two years. When he comes back for a full season in 1995-1996, they go on record 72-10 run and they win three more titles.
 
I really agree with @Asclepio and especially with @KingCrimson !

It's all about people to buy the next gen idevices only because they would this steve jobs made them !



miss you steve
 
I sure hope it's true. Apple's the only place that values this kind of design anymore, and one of the only places that sees the arts as equal to the sciences. I always loved that; it'd be a shame if it died with Steve, and it would also take Apple with it if they didn't honour the philosophy.

Jury's still out in my head about Tim Cook's ability to appreciate arts and design. I'm glad Jony is still there.
 
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SJ has ensured that Apple success will go on for many more years. It's like Don Corleone telling Michael exactly what would happen after his death, how to prepare for the betrayal that Don Corleone saw coming for years.
 
FattyMembrane said:
Just watched his keynote at the '97 WWDC yesterday and it almost makes me think there could be 10 years of plans in the pipe line. Early on, he basically lays out iCloud and the MacBook Air. My impression is that things like iPod and iPhone spent less time between concept and reality, but he clearly had an idea of where the hardware and storage were moving a full decade in advance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnO7D5UaDig
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...i felt the same way a few months ago -- he clearly had the cloud vision 10 years back. and when he spoke about the Newton being useless due to tethered sync, that what he wanted was a real computer in his pocket. here we are, ten years later and those visions are reality.
 
kind of morbid

wish they could hire woz as honorary engineer just to keep the spirit alive

ives' minimalism and aesthetics are key to the future of apple
 
Four years of designs in the pipeline..... Seems we are going to get those "previously unreleased tracks" from Steve Jobs. :)
 
corrado7 said:
That good to know but it will be interesting to see if the new CEO will adhere to those plans. Still cant believe he passed away.
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I hope and pray every day that we forget about this 4 year date because even after this period of 4 years, if the experience of apple products doesn't change enough that we notice, we will know that apple will forever and always be there. I'm so terribly afraid that after steve's ideas are all implemented, apple may lose direction, but I pray each day that we can't tell where steve's plans leave off because it would mean apple continues to hold up the tradition of excellence. :apple:
 
appleguy123 said:
How can he predict four years into the future? I mean, Steve Jobs was totally brilliant, but who knows where technology will go in that time?
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"the best way to predict the future is to invent it"

- Alan C. Kay, Apple Computers fellow


And I believe that was what Steve Jobs did and encouraged others to ... instead of trying to predict the future, he builds the future piece by piece.



another quote by Kay (after the unveiling of the iPhone in 2007):


"When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world."
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I hope he put a new mouse design that use gesture just like kinect's basic concept!! imagine that the trackpad moved into the air and you can just use your hand to do anything you want!!

~Dream~

You are unpredictable!! A $1/year salary employee who cares so much about the company..
 
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I still can't believe he's not alive. I got into apple in 2008 and have never looked back. He had 20 years of products ahead of him. :( so sad.
 
So am I the first person to point out the dangers in basing an article on a Daily Fail report?!
 
As one whose time at NeXT and Apple I made sure I knew the upcoming projects, directly and trusted fellow colleagues I can only ask:

``Only 4 years? Really? I find that hard to swallow.''
 
In the "Crazy Ones" ad, alot of them were brilliant people. Many of them legends. But not all of them had the same charisma of Steve Jobs. He was a badass in tech. Imagine if Star Wars never had its Darth Vader and Han Solo? Boring. Maybe that's why most of the prequels sucked. How can you replace Steve Jobs? You can't. Everybody who follows him will look like a cheap stand-in like trying to replace Ozzy in Black Sabbath and Steve Perry in Journey. You don't watch John Lennon leave the group he helped started and then still call your band The Beatles, do you?

Apple can have his vision and DNA going forward, but they no longer have his intuition, charisma, and swag. Keynotes will never be the same without him.
 
You gotta feel for Tim Cook right now. He is now in the sole position of keeping Apple steered in the right direction, and must have unimaginable pressure on him to not only maintain Apple's reputation, and satisfy shareholders and customers, but also in upholding the legacy of Steve Jobs and staying true to his vision. Everyone will be scrutinizing Cook's every decision, and judging it against the thought: "What would Steve have done?"

Cue song by Freddy Mercury and David Bowie "Under Pressure".
 
Savor said:
In the "Crazy Ones" ad, alot of them were brilliant people. Many of them legends. But not all of them had the same charisma of Steve Jobs. He was a badass in tech. Imagine if Star Wars never had its Darth Vader and Han Solo? Boring. Maybe that's why most of the prequels sucked. How can you replace Steve Jobs? You can't. Everybody who follows him will look like a cheap stand-in like trying to replace Ozzy in Black Sabbath and Steve Perry in Journey. You don't watch John Lennon leave the group he helped started and then still call your band The Beatles, do you?

Apple can have his vision and DNA going forward, but they no longer have his intuition, charisma, and swag. Keynotes will never be the same without him.
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I think Apple soon will look boring just like when Jobs left Apple by the first time in the 80's. Microsoft had an "evil" image when it had Bill Gates as its CEO, but we all agree that MS became more boring after Bill left his manager role in the company. CEOs bring a human representation of an institution and customers like to identify themselves with people and not with companies.
 
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