Every once in a while it's worth re-watching his Stanford commencement speech, one of my all-time favorites. His stories underscore the improbable nature of his life & career, despite abandonment (in my opinion) by his biological parents, a failed attempt at college, and later getting fired from his own company.
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Steve Jobs Would Have Been 62 Today While MacRumors Turns 17
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Happy Birthday, to Steve and MacRumors! Both have played kickass roles in my life.
Gratitude back at you, arn, the admins and moderators. The organization has enabled me to get answers about what was a new to me OS. Happy Birthday and Thank You.
And thank you to the many members who've posted useful information. You've added value to who knows how many lives.
The only thing weirder than the fact that MacRumors is 17 is that I've visiting the website for at least 12 of those years.
My dad has been following the website since before the iPod... so probably since the first year. Weird. I wonder how he heard about it/found it. I found it from him, obviously.
(I didn't become a member of the forums until when I started thinking about buying my own iMac... said iMac, mentioned in my signature, can no longer boot into OS X as of ~December... a patch update was screwed up somehow and now the computer refuses to safe boot, nevermind normal boot... I can put it in recovery mode, but have been too busy to actually try much in that mode...)
My dad has been following the website since before the iPod... so probably since the first year. Weird. I wonder how he heard about it/found it. I found it from him, obviously.
(I didn't become a member of the forums until when I started thinking about buying my own iMac... said iMac, mentioned in my signature, can no longer boot into OS X as of ~December... a patch update was screwed up somehow and now the computer refuses to safe boot, nevermind normal boot... I can put it in recovery mode, but have been too busy to actually try much in that mode...)
So much hate. A real shame it rears its head today of all days.
To the site with the best comments section ever, happy birthday!
Get over it. Before he died SJ knowingly appointed Cook as his successor.
No one will ever replace Steve Jobs, even Cook understands that.
You can make incremental updates that increase profitability/market capitalization without having the strategic vision to fight future out-of-the-blue competitors that come once every 10-15 years and change everything. Apple faces larger existential risk today than it did when Jobs was still alive. Much, much more risk. Why? Lack of vision and inability to execute on technical points (Siri being wholly inferior to Google's voice dictation because Apple silos data due to 'privacy' concerns (intellectual dishonest excuse - there are cryptographic methods of ensuring privacy yet still leveraging all the data they have ) and won't use machine learning against the entirety of their voice data.
Conveniently forgetting Steve Jobs personally chose him for the job.
Me and my wife are going to watch the keynote for the original iPhone together.
Neither of us has watched it.
I was the "proud" owner of a Palm Treo in 2008 and was looking for another "smartphone". Was even reading ebooks on it
It was November and while browsing the internet for my next "smartphone" my wife kept asking me:
"What does this do different than an iPhone?"
After the nth time she did that, I responded:
"Why the sudden interest?" and jokingly "Did you buy me an iPhone for X-Mas? Haha" ... She did look a bit peeved and unsure at that and finally told me "It's waiting at the post office for pickup."
Man! I would never have guessed how that turned out.
I used to be a strictly Windows guy, but that opened my eyes to a whole different level of usability and re-introduced me to programming.
Nowadays, we are macOS - albeit HackMac i5-2500k on NVMe Samsung 960 EVO, R9 390 and LG UW - and iOS.
Only the server - Gen8 Xeon ZFS on LUKS and dockerized - is Linux and an old Samsung 850 is host to a Win gaming install on the Hacky which I really dislike to boot. I rather have the performance penalty of Steam on macOS than endure W-Insecurity.
All in all:
Thank you, Sir Steve Jobs!
I know, but he really should have been knighted! You most definitely were no easy personality to work with but one that really left his mark on the tech side of mankind!
Without him the tech world would have been a pale shadow of what it is today.
Neither of us has watched it.
I was the "proud" owner of a Palm Treo in 2008 and was looking for another "smartphone". Was even reading ebooks on it
It was November and while browsing the internet for my next "smartphone" my wife kept asking me:
"What does this do different than an iPhone?"
After the nth time she did that, I responded:
"Why the sudden interest?" and jokingly "Did you buy me an iPhone for X-Mas? Haha" ... She did look a bit peeved and unsure at that and finally told me "It's waiting at the post office for pickup."
Man! I would never have guessed how that turned out.
I used to be a strictly Windows guy, but that opened my eyes to a whole different level of usability and re-introduced me to programming.
Nowadays, we are macOS - albeit HackMac i5-2500k on NVMe Samsung 960 EVO, R9 390 and LG UW
- and iOS.Only the server - Gen8 Xeon ZFS on LUKS and dockerized - is Linux and an old Samsung 850 is host to a Win gaming install on the Hacky which I really dislike to boot. I rather have the performance penalty of Steam on macOS than endure W-Insecurity.
All in all:
Thank you, Sir Steve Jobs!
I know, but he really should have been knighted! You most definitely were no easy personality to work with but one that really left his mark on the tech side of mankind!
Without him the tech world would have been a pale shadow of what it is today.
Isn't it time to maybe move on? I fee that Tim in every interview talks about Steve. Every single time I see him or the colleagues on an interview, it's always talking about Steve.
*I know this post is about his birthday, that I can understand. But I feel that in every single interview he does, something about Steve comes up. How he thinks about him and JFK and MLK every day..
*I know this post is about his birthday, that I can understand. But I feel that in every single interview he does, something about Steve comes up. How he thinks about him and JFK and MLK every day..
I have no idea how accurate this is since I'm not an engineer, developer, programmer but I have no idea why folks trash Siri so much. It works fine for me and my voice, accent, inflection don't make it easy.
Regardless, that's not the point of this thread.
Jobs was a visionary. There aren't truly a lot of those. Every company is at risk of some new innovation that comes out of the blue. It happened to IBM, Microsoft, Blackberry, Kodak and beyond. It particularly happens at large, successful companies. I recently read where Google should have been the market leader in web services (cloud) but Amazon beat everyone to the punch. Was Google asleep at the wheel or had they gotten "fat and happy".
No one knows what Apple is working on at present. Perhaps they will one day lose their place as the most successful tech company. Who knows? The point is that we celebrate what Steve Jobs did in his lifetime to create the Apple we know today which is still doing ok.
Steve Jobs not only revolutionized the personal computer industry, he also was a transformational leader in entertainment. From Pixar to ending music piracy, he changed the way we use and consume entertainment products and services. Within a short period, CDs and DVDs will go the way of the floppy drive and CDROM reader in your laptop. Steve Jobs drove the innovation. He was mocked when he introduce iCloud. Now look at Microsoft's revenues.... its cloud licensing is keeping the company profitable. I no longer have DVDs or CDs. All of my entertainment is on-line via iTunes and available when I need it where I need it. Who has purchased a digital camera lately? Again, Steve Jobs' vision changed the way we compute, communicate, entertain ourselves and brought humanity closer together as was we record life and share it with the world.
I imagine you're not a fan of the new MacBook Pros, so we'll stick with things you hopefully agree with.
In-house designed mobile chips with double the per-core performance of the nearest competitor. Exclusive business partnership with IBM. Next gen open source programming language and new file system. Ubiquitous services such as iCloud and iMessage. Over 100 new Apple Stores. Just really consider the larger picture and how much Apple have changed.
Where you see incremental updates because you lived through the curve, others see incredible growth and products that would not have been imagined in 2011. What you see as lack of vision because of a few belated hardware updates, others see a larger long-term vision because of the foundations Apple are laying.
And these are just things in the public eye. Apple have been known to be secretive from time to time.
So although you're entitled to disagree with these points, I don't think it's fair to say Tim has only ridden the coattails of Jobs' success. Regardless, I'm happy to end this debate here if you are.
I suppose for Tim Cook it's difficult not too, Steve was so embedded in Apple that for Tim Cook every time he probably walks into the building he's reminded of Steve, also lets not forget they were friends and it was Jobs who personally hired Tim Cook and hand picked him to be C.E.O so it's not unreasonable that Tim probably thinks about Steve everyday.
Its interesting that this flashback was posted on MR today. I was just reflecting yesterday on how messed up, ugly and backwards the Mac OS has become since, well... starting around 2012.
To the point that I've lost all enthusiasm for it.
I was thinking about if this mess would have occurred if Steve Jobs were still here today. The answer I know is ... No.
I of course didn't know Mr Jobs, but I knew his mac. And Apple wasted no time trashing it after his death. Pity.
To the point that I've lost all enthusiasm for it.
I was thinking about if this mess would have occurred if Steve Jobs were still here today. The answer I know is ... No.
I of course didn't know Mr Jobs, but I knew his mac. And Apple wasted no time trashing it after his death. Pity.
