Steve Jobs Passed Away 11 Years Ago Today

[JKAussieSkater]

No more “Remembering Steve” on the Apple homepage, I guess 10yrs was enough?

Once a decade is *definitely* frequent enough.

However, *maybe* Steve's birthday and commemoration is a permissible exception and warrants annual recognition on an Apple fan-site such as this one.

It's annoying that MacRumors articles recognises any kind of anniversary more frequently than once a decade with *other* products/events, though.

 

[EdT]

Hmm I remember these threads, mostly likely in the archive section.

I do recall apple being the first to offer ssd in laptops, even if proprietary, in the 2nd gen MBA 11/13” Intel models.

Still offering hybrid drives or “fusion” was an asinine move and penny pinching to be honest, never agreed to that.

No Blu-ray wasn’t really needed much beyond those that used blue-ray players but pirating movies was difficult for the platform very easily back in BitTorrent days (crap quality or messed up audio like MP3’s). PS3/4/5 used Bali-Ray while XBox took a long time to do the same.

Just because a feature is pointless didn’t mean that there weren’t people complaining that Apple didn’t offer it.

 

[Mike WA4D]

Looks like you went all out with the reaction magnet on this post. Steve Jobs was known to be a particularly unpleasant chap, but no need to celebrate someone dying of cancer. It’s crass and unnecessary.

I feel it is necessary TRD. The man is lauded and slobbered over in Apple related media. The reality is he was killed by his own hubris and arrogance. That which made him “insanely great” also took his life. In my opinion Apple’s trajectory was enhanced by Jobs departing the scene. The products and numbers make that a hard argument to refute.

 

[EdT]

I feel it is necessary TRD. The man is lauded and slobbered over in Apple related media. The reality is he was killed by his own hubris and arrogance. That which made him “insanely great” also took his life. In my opinion Apple’s trajectory was enhanced by Jobs departing the scene. The products and numbers make that a hard argument to refute.

Well, he had pancreatic cancer which is usually quickly fatal….except his was the kind that if treated most people survived for 10-15 years or more. But he went new-age juice therapy instead, so having a type that wasn’t quickly fatal meant he had long enough to find out that his self treatments didn’t work but it was now too late to start conventional treatments. In his authorized biography he admitted that it was pretty stupid of him. The Guardian

 

[Mike WA4D]

Well, he had pancreatic cancer which is usually quickly fatal….except his was the kind that if treated most people survived for 10-15 years or more. But he went new-age juice therapy instead, so having a type that wasn’t quickly fatal meant he had long enough to find out that his self treatments didn’t work but it was now too late to start conventional treatments. In his authorized biography he admitted that it was pretty stupid of him. The Guardian

Yes —- I’m aware of all of that. No matterl. He’s gone and the right man is running Apple..