Steve Jobs Passed Away 11 Years Ago Today

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I think the last iPhone 4s or 5 was design by Steve Jobs.

You mean, it was the best design that he was involved with?

 

[Lalov001]

For many of us Steve was Apple and 11 years later we still miss him.

 

[MacWorld78]

You mean, it was the best design that he was involved with?

Yes with respect

 

[jonnyb]

It’s OK to say Steve Jobs died or that it’s the anniversary of his death. He was a direct talker, and I suspect wouldn’t have used euphemisms for dying.

 

[yaxomoxay]

Let's move on from worshipping just one guy. Yes, he was very important. But there are tens of thousands of employees who work at Apple.

Let's not turn cultish in worshipping Jobs.

I don’t think that a couple of articles a year qualify as worshipping

 

[1557750]

Thanks, Steve.

I’d say RIP, but we make too much of a ruckus up here for you to do that.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Once again I am thinking, the saying "If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all" was lost at some point. It is a shame.

 

[George Dawes]

They always said Steve had excellent taste , choosing Tim as his successor proves that to a tee

 

[syklee26]

If he was still alive, we might be living in a totally different world right now. It almost seems like blazing pace of innovation stalled once we lost Steve.

 

[SoldOnApple]

I wonder if there will ever be someone else at Apple who is just like Steve Jobs and rises through the ranks and becomes a charismatic CEO. Tim Cook is great and all, maybe even better than Jobs in making Apple thrive, but he's no replacement for Steve Jobs' charisma and genuine singular obsession with design. So one day will there be a "second coming" of Steve Jobs?

 

[Yabbie]

The day apple stopped innovating.

 

[I7guy]

It’s a stark reminder how fast time flies.

 

[WWPD]

RIP Steve Jobs, in retrospect lets laugh at the other moron Steve.

“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”-Steve Ballmer​

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Hard to believe. 11 years. Wow... Tempus fugit.

 

[lkrupp]

Apple wouldn't exist without a great many factors. Steve Wozniak's influence is probably the most understated, as he was the actual brains behind Apple's earliest products.

Typical response from a techie type. Woz wanted to give everything away. Jobs was the business genius, the visionary, the one who wanted to change the world. Woz was his Morlock, the guy in the back room toiling away. Yes, without Woz Apple wouldn’t have existed either but Jobs was the one who literally willed Apple into existence.

 

[StuBeck]

“No amount of money ever bought a second of time”

Slightly inaccurate. He bought time for himself by having planes in every metro area able to get him the liver he needed. Without his money, its likely he wouldn't have been able to get this transplant.

 

[lkrupp]

Steve Jobs was Apple’s savior from its pending demise… there is no more saviors to come back and save Apple… and their slow demise is starting to show more every day. The stuff that was in the pipeline when Steve passed has been flushed out and the coat tails ridden as long as they could be... Apple decided to allow the Wall Street based parasites run the show instead of the creative and innovative types and that decision is being reflected in low quality products instead of being the best in class, as it was in the past. How long can they continue without having a creative and innovative leader and executive team is the question i have.

RIP Steve Jobs - one of the last true visionaries of Silicon Valley!

Well, with no visionaries left and Apple on the decline with no one to take its place I guess we’re all doomed to mediocrity, right? Or, as I suspect, do you have a new claimant to the throne in mind? I might even have an idea of who that is. Care to share with us.

 

[rpmurray]

“No amount of money ever bought a second of time”

Doctors would like to have a word with you.

 

[gccumber]

Apple is never going to let Steve die, they‘re happy to let his ghost hover over that place… its kinda weird IMO

 

[supremedesigner]

I remembered Steve demonstrated the Halo on the mac platform one time... that was epic.

 

[lkrupp]

Once again I am thinking, the saying "If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all" was lost at some point. It is a shame.

Here’s one I’ll always remember. When Steve Jobs died the forums at C-net were filled with hateful and venomous comments, the usual ‘good riddance’ and ‘glad he’s dead’ stuff. But one thread was the worst. They wanted organize a posse to go and urinate on his grave. They wanted to know where and when and how many would participate. I sent an email to C-net asking them to delete the posts because they crossed the line. C-net never responded.

I suspect that some of those participants eventually wound up on Apple tech blogs when C-net shut down its comment sections a couple of years ago.

 

[captrlp]

Samsung should also have a tribute to Steve on this day. In fact, every tech company that has copied Apple should be honoring him.
Without Steve, Apple, Samsung and others would not be producing the technologies and products we enjoy today.

 

[votdfak]

I still watch the older Keynotes where Steve was part of and compared to the Keynotes since then Tim is nowhere close to Steve in my opinion... I just still can't help but think about will we see the products that we have now if Steve is still the CEO of Apple...

Tim lacks any charisma...

 

[Born Again]

Good reminder to go to a doctor. Steve Jobs self healed. Not to say he would have lived but may have extended his life so he could have fired Jonny Ive himself.

 

[chevyboy60013]

RIP Steve, you are still missed by many.