Enjoyed the few times I met and talked with him over the years. Seems the vast majority (99.9%) of those that have bad things to say are simply hearsay.
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Tim Cook Commemorates Steve Jobs on Fourth Anniversary of His Death
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I remember 4 years ago, it was a beautiful sunny day and I was having lunch with my wife (g/f at the time) when I found out from my iPhone. Today was another one of those sunny days and we were at lunch and I had forgotten about the date, checked my iPhone and was reminded.
RIP Steve
RIP Steve
R.I.P. Steve
Apple isn't the same without you.
It's not very often someone comes along with the dedication of a perfectionist, the vision of a revolutionary, and the tenacity and laser focus to see things thru to completion, no matter the roadblocks. Add to that the many inventions and co-inventions to his name, his uncanny ability to hand-pick the right people for his team, his ability to coerce others to do their absolute best work for the project at hand, and his ability to charm others into seeing things the way he envisioned them. How on earth could all these beautiful products not have happened?
I don't know why but during that exciting time in Apple's history after SJ's return in 1998, beginning with those translucent, colorful iMac G3s and then those successively sleeker, smaller and more powerful iPods, the iTunes Store, the iPhone, the App Store and the iPad to the time of Steve's passing, whenever my thoughts wandered, and I used to think of Steve working on exciting new products, that old line always came to mind: "The impossible we do right away; the miraculous takes a bit longer".
A remarkable human being indeed! Thanks Steve, all is well ....... may you rest in peace.
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I thought that is exactly what he did with the original MacBook Air.
Exactly this! Considering that Steve Jobs was the only CEO to really make Apple thrive and innovate. Tim Cook is just in a lucky position because he inherited the success from Jobs. Had Tim Cook been the CEO of Apple in 1997, the company would've gone completely under considering he's doing pretty much what every non-Jobs Apple CEO has done: overwhelm and bloat up a previously simple and streamlined product lineup, releasing poorly designed and half-assed products and services and just an overall lack of focus on what matters.
Apple today is too ambitious for their own good and they really should dial it back and focus on perfecting their existing products and software instead of trying to do everything under the sun.
I remember the 4S release keynote lead by Cook, and how flat and tired he looked, we were all kind of ripping on him for it. Turns out that Steve was on his deathbed and Cook knew it. Poor guy must have just willed himself through that presentation.
It seems that Cook is overemphasizing Steve's family devotion, but perhaps the biographies and movies are overemphasizing the other side of that story. In any case, it really shouldn't matter to those of us who watched his career, since his work is his legacy.
As older people know, work is meaningless compared to family.
Who on their deathbed would say, "Gosh I wish I had spent more time at the office instead of watching my kids grow up, or talking to my parents!"
PS. Yeah I know. You meant as an outside observer.