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Tim Cook Asks Apple Employees to Remember Steve Jobs on Third Anniversary of His Death

CarlosQG said:
There's nothing wrong with remembering your beloved ones on the anniversary of their death y'know... Perhaps you haven't lose a friend or a family member.
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Yes, a friend or a family member. He was a friend of some people working for Apple, but that would a very few of them. So, again, a friend or family member, not one of the creators of the company you work for.


The current leader asking Apple employees to take some time to 'remember the "many ways Steve made our world better." '...

Maybe Tim Cook wants to start a cult?
 
vrDrew said:
I'd hope, at some point, they change that.

Certainly someone like Steve Jobs should always be remembered in a special way at a company like Apple. Photos, portraits, sculptures, awards, building names, scholarships, etc. are all ways to accomplish that.

But an office kept in a perpetual state of suspended animation strikes me as just a little bit creepy. And frankly at odds with Steve Jobs philosophy (at least as I understand it.) There is going to come a day that the iMac on the desk and the other office accoutrements are going to look as clunky and outdated as something from a Mad Men set looks to us.

Perhaps when Apple's new "Spaceship" campus opens and they move the executive offices it will be time to repurpose the Steve Jobs office space. Maybe pack it up, and move it whole to a museum some place.

But Steve Jobs would hate the idea of Apple becoming a "museum" or any sort of a "shrine."
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I actually thought that was the most touching part of the article, because it's something I've never heard in the 3 years since his passing.

I'd guess that at some anniversary (maybe 5 or 10 years after his passing) they will end up taking all sorts of documentation photos, packing up his office, and moving it to more of a tribute place, wherever that ends up being - something like Disney, where Walt's office is on display.

I'd like to see that space. I think it's interesting. It's a little bit of insight that we'd usually never get to see otherwise. If it were kept for historical reasons, it would be about as close as people can get to seeing what Steve's place would look like in a building not many people go in on a campus some people can't even get to. Long story short, I think it's cool. :)
 
joshwenke said:
So is this gonna be an annual thing now??
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Not that I care - I don't work there - but for the company's future sake, I hope not.

Forgetting (at least a little) has also big advantages. Plus, it's only natural - and the best way to better deal with the future.
 
CarlosQG said:
There's nothing wrong with remembering your beloved ones on the anniversary of their death y'know... Perhaps you haven't lose a friend or a family member.
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Steve jobs is a special example, this is not about individuals paying their respects, this is an event the whole company is in involved in. Cook addressed all the employees, hence the reference to him having a religious / cult status within apple. Which he does, and will continue to have.

Everyone mourns the passing of their friends and family members , this is far far bigger than that, as in not about individual mourning but he company itself.

It seems it will be an annual event, which is great.
 
yaxomoxay said:
He wasn't wrong. Back before 2011, that was the correct size. 2014 is different.
1984 Mac was the perfect product for 1984. That doesn't mean that we should still have a b/w display and up to 512k of RAM. Things change, and
Steve's ability was to know where to put his money on.
Even "perfection" evolves.
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On ething I notice when it comes android and PC Manufacturers:

1)Apple creates or is rumored to be creating a new standard/feature.
2)Every manufacturer copies and tries out do Apple by taking Apple's product/feature and shoving as many useless specs of said feature as possible.
3)Fandriods claim Apple is behind when Apple created the standard in the first place.

Screen resolution is the biggest example of this. Apple creates retina iPhone 4 and Retina iPad 3 -> every android phone all of a sudden tries to cram 1920x1080 or QHD resolution into a 5" screen.

Apple creates retina macbook pro -> now all of sudden every PC manufacturer is trying to cram 4K into 14" screen.

And look at Samsung''s Galaxy Alpha. Looks exactly like an iPhone, has a 720p 4.7" screen(Isn't the iPhone 6 4.7" with 750p?), and no sd card expansion slot. Clearly the all mighty Samsung could not create a superior phone in the same form factor.
 
AaronEdwards said:
Yes, a friend or a family member. He was a friend of some people working for Apple, but that would a very few of them. So, again, a friend or family member, not one of the creators of the company you work for.


The current leader asking Apple employees to take some time to 'remember the "many ways Steve made our world better." '...

Maybe Tim Cook wants to start a cult?
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Oh, for pete's sake...

They do the same thing at Rogers in Canada, after Ted Rogers died a few years ago. It's common with companies where the founding person who had an enormous influence has died within recent memory. The only reason this is even being talked about is because it's Apple and everything they do is put under the microscope.
 
CarlosQG said:
There's nothing wrong with remembering your beloved ones on the anniversary of their death y'know... Perhaps you haven't lose a friend or a family member.
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Yeah... a friend or a family member... but for most people at Apple, he was neither. Not to mention that as a boss, there´s plenty of evidence he was kind of a jerk.

I don't have anything against him, but organizationally speaking, they have to let him go, instead of keep deifying him.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
He wasn't wrong. Back before 2011, that was the correct size. 2014 is different.
1984 Mac was the perfect product for 1984. That doesn't mean that we should still have a b/w display and up to 512k of RAM. Things change, and
Steve's ability was to know where to put his money on.
Even "perfection" evolves.
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Apples to oranges. The 1984 Mac was limited by technological ability at the time. Steve envisioned what we have now. He just didn't have an engineer who could make it happen.

Phablets are a fad. Like tattoos. Eventually people will regain their sanity. Or not. In which case, let me off this freaking planet.
 
fertilized-egg said:
Reality Distortion Field doesn't mean what you think it means. If you knew what it actually means, you'd wish it exists everywhere, unless you're a project manager.
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Serious much? I was making a joke. The guy I was quoting clearly had a distorted view of reality

I know both uses of the reality distortion field. It's true that Jobs was able to convince his subordinates that creating the impossible was indeed possible, and that's part of what made Apple great. But he also certainly had a knack for making people believe his version of reality (like how he convinced the world PPC was better than x86 up until the very moment they decided to switch).
 
iBlazed said:
No it wasn't, Steve just happened to be wrong on what he thought was the "perfect" screen size of an iPhone. It wouldn't have been the first thing he was wrong on.
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Just because Apple has started selling iPhones with a bigger screen doesn't mean that Jobs was wrong.
A lot of people wish Apple were still selling 3.5" iPhones.
 
To paraphrase Frankie Boyle: I love it when there is something to fap to on the internet. (I kid, I kid)
 
His thinking. His wit. His visions. His karma. His ability to cut the cake, his strategy and product positioning skills and his incredible showmanship when revealing new products. Even his 'declerations of war' on obsolete technologies and copy-cat competitors.

I miss it all. What a journey. What an incredible human being.
Miss you, Steve. You made a dent in the universe.
 
I sure miss the Steve Jobs Key notes.

Remembering him is a Great thing to do.

Tim and the rest of the Apple team are doing a great job. looking forward to the Apple watch and the bigger iPad PRO "with a keyboard".
 
kerrikins said:
Oh, for pete's sake...

They do the same thing at Rogers in Canada, after Ted Rogers died a few years ago. It's common with companies where the founding person who had an enormous influence has died within recent memory. The only reason this is even being talked about is because it's Apple and everything they do is put under the microscope.
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Difference being, outside of US/Canada people have no idea who Ted Rogers is. Steve jobs has a cult followng globally, and Tim will milk it for what's it's worth, and so he should , cause those are shoes that are all but impossible to fill, though Tim is trying hard.

When I think of apple, I think more Disney and Walt Disney , not companies like Rogers ;)
 
yaboyac29 said:
in 2000 years we'll have people worshipping harry potter.. srs.

they'll think that the book is the bible.
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Probably yes. But that also makes you think how the bible became "the bible" today, isn't it ?
 
Jobs' death should be a constant reminder that alternative medicine is nonsense and time is of the essence when dealing with cancer.
 
Chrjy said:
No!

Just because the company that Steve Jobs built wishes to honour his legacy does not suddenly mean the company sees him as some religious figure. The same way that most people honour a friend or a family members death, they don't suddenly see them as a religious figure.

Like or loathe him, the bottom line that no one can dispute is he brought a huge amount to the way society interacts and uses technology today.

Showing disrespect, irrelevant of one's opinions, is unnecessary and most people who display such behaviour are normally showing their own insecurities by putting others down.
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Amen to that brother! ;)

P.S. I wasn't referring to the company. Just take some time to read back the thousands of comments after his death. And you are already fiercely defending him....
 
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