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Steve Jobs Would Have Celebrated His 69th Birthday Today

“Thinking of my friend Steve on his birthday — the lives he touched, the Vision he shared…”

My emphasis. But I feel like Tim is trying to say, here: “Guys… gimme a break... I know Vision Pro hasn’t exactly set the world alight, but Steve actually put this on the roadmap before he passed. So I can’t take all the blame!”
 
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Steve's chatting with some friends in Heaven. A bunch of new folks have just arrived. One of them is unimpressed with the accommodations and mutters, "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

Steve nudges the guy next to him, "Is this the other place?"
 
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It's fun to dream about how different Apple would be if he were still here. I certainly don't think he would have allowed iCloud to die on the vine.
 
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sakurawa said:

Steve had live keynote presentations of Apple's newest products.
Now all we get is pre-recorded dull advertisements.
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This is risk mitigation... pre recorded presentations can have all sorts of effects added, be edited and nothing goes wrong

Live presentations can go wrong (something may not work as expected, or someone loses their train of thought) and can't have added in special effects (not to the same level as with pre recorded).

And that can really impact a product and tarnish it in today's ever more viral 24/7 news and social media cycles.

In any case... wasn't it the pandemic that moved us into what reveals are these days. And they kind of stuck there. Maybe a hybrid format would be better to add back that personal touch.
 
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Fuzzball84 said:
This is risk mitigation... pre recorded presentations can have all sorts of effects added, be edited and nothing goes wrong

Live presentations can go wrong (something may not work as expected, or someone loses their train of thought) and can't have added in special effects (not to the same level as with pre recorded).

And that can really impact a product and tarnish it in today's ever more viral 24/7 news and social media cycles.

In any case... wasn't it the pandemic that moved us into what reveals are these days. And they kind of stuck there. Maybe a hybrid format would be better to add back that personal touch.
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Maybe that's what makes it interesting to watch... the excitement and REAL WORLD connection.
Who needs "special effects" when you can show off great products in real time live to people worldwide?

That "pandemic" is over, so we can go back to genuine experiences again. No more fake advertisements.
 
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sakurawa said:
Maybe that's what makes it interesting to watch... the excitement and REAL WORLD connection.
Who needs "special effects" when you can show off great products in real time live to people worldwide?

That "pandemic" is over, so we can go back to genuine experiences again. No more fake advertisements.
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Yeah it sure makes it interesting...

Regarding 'the' pandemic.... it hasn't officially been declared over and will/or has be transitioning to endemic all over the world. People are still affected by the virus and like the regular cold/flu will just be there.. or mutate into other forms.
 
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kagharaht said:
The Mac, 1984 512k helped me start my career. It actually improved my future working in MKt/Ad. Now I'm 62 retired. Everything paid off, 2700 sqft house paid off, cars paid off, my combined retirement income is more than I make which is weird, but I'll take it. lol All because of that little 9" screen to get me started and SJ push to make that thing a reality. So thank you Mr. Jobs.
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Wow, the American dream. One day, one day.
 
AlexJaye said:
That's sad, RIP. I was just discussing how great Apple used to be with him in charge, and how - little by little - the QA and overall "It Just Works" mantra is no longer true by the year.

I'm glad I got to be an Apple customer when things DID just work the way they were supposed to. It feels like Apple is simply skating by on his success, but the more fragmented and buggy they become, the further away they go from the original vision.

Edit: AND got in before the egregious price gouging Apple does these days, especially with essentials like RAM. Still using my 2012 iMac on a regular basis because the RAM was upgradeable and didn't cost $500 to upgrade from the awful base 8gb they still use.
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Right there with you. I used my 2010 MacBook Pro for twelve years for the very same reason. I simply upgraded it as time went on. Truly a different era. But I guess people like us aren't really making Apple any money, are we? When I finally replaced my MacBook, I didn't replace it with a Mac. There's a multitude of reasons for that, but in many ways, Apple lost me as a customer, not the other way around.
 
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Its hard to wonder what Apple would look like today, or if I would even be an Apple user today.

Would it have been a 3 trillion dollar company like it is today?

Hard to wonder.

But Happy Birthday Steve Jobs
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AlexJaye said:
Honestly part of me really wonders if the petty ******* inside Steve groomed Tim Cook to be his replacement, knowing how bereft Tim is of any true inspiring vision. He had to have known Tim would turn the company into the steamy mess it is now. Sure, profit is still great, but the vision seems blurred.
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I think Steve left Apple to a group of people. Tim was meant to lead that group because he is an efficient leader. Steve never imagined that Tim's pursuit of efficiency will one day make Apple an unexciting mega corporation without a soul. The final nail in the coffin was when Jony left. After that period, people still buy Apple products but the brand is no longer aspirational to those who valued Steve's vision and his uncanny focus on detail to make products better. This is the reason Apple just plays catch up with other brands now, and is often only in the news for its incremental product launches. This is why Tim needs Vision Pro to be a success. He made a great product but we all know that Steve would have never agreed to that dangling battery pack.
 
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Why else we are being here, Tim asks?

It's not the dent. It's to find our way back home. It's to remember who we really are. It's about realisation. It's about to remember that we took a vacation from GOD. To forget. That's why we come into life as a wiped disk.
It's a game. It's a reflection. We are usually ONE. There is no TIME. It's all a show. It's a TrueMan show. It's Avatar. It's BabaJi and Steve and Terrence and... everyone else..

That's why Steve is never lost. Steve is an Archetype and a Role. Steve is the idea of a dent in universe that is full of dents. Or no dents at all and everything at the same time.

Fare well my friend. Life is fragile. Nobody has to stay forever. Your days are counted. I am just another YOU.

The idea of a repairable Mac that is upgradable with a long, usable lifecycle died with Steve.

Long live the programmed controlled product obsolescence. Just as the spike protein in your tissue of the average reader. Enjoy your shortened live expectancy for a faster turn around. Isn't this parallel interesting?
 
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MacRumors said:


Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, so today would have marked his 69th birthday had he not passed away in 2011 at the age of 56.

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Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in 1976 to produce the very first Apple computers, revolutionizing the personal computer and building up to one of the most famous commercial launches in history, the Macintosh, in 1984. He was ousted from the company just a year later, but returned in 1997 as a floundering Apple purchased Jobs' follow-up company NeXT to serve as the future basis of the Mac operating system.

Apple was reinvigorated with Jobs back at the helm and Jony Ive leading a team generating iconic design after iconic design. The duo oversaw not only a rebirth of the Mac but the creation of a number of other revolutionary products and services, most notably including the iPod and of course the iPhone. Under Jobs' leadership from 1997 until his 2011 death from cancer, Apple went from a company on the brink of failure to one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

As he always does, Apple CEO Tim Cook paid tribute to Jobs on Twitter today.



Article Link: Steve Jobs Would Have Celebrated His 69th Birthday Today
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I am still waiting for iBoard and iMat.
 
Yawn… nice…
Looking forward to what Steve Jobs would otherwise witness had he been alive to celebrate his 70th birthday.
Maybe we will have something more interesting coming, like Apple car, more affordable vr headsets and so on. Folding device maybe?
 
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