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Eight years ago today, Steve Jobs passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 56, one day after somewhat subdued Apple executives introduced the iPhone 4s at a media event on the company's Infinite Loop headquarters campus.

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As he traditionally does, Apple CEO Tim Cook today marked the anniversary of Jobs' death with a tweet, sharing a Jobs quote and a photo of him at the iconic cube at Apple's Fifth Avenue retail store in New York City.


Apple continues to maintain its "Remembering Steve" page highlighting a few of the over one million submissions from people around the world who "shared their memories, thoughts, and feelings about Steve."

Article Link: Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs on 8th Anniversary of His Death
The best way to honor him would be to release a small flagship iPhone, Steve would be disgusted that we don’t have one
 
Apple died with him, unfortunately

Then why are you here? Really, why are you here? Please explain. Are you still an Apple customer? If so, why?
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Steve Jobs had time to plan for his untimely exit including a forward roadmap for Apple to enable his vision to endure for some time after his death. It may be interesting for some to speculate where that roadmap ends and the next iteration takes over the journey. Wherever the road leads, its creator may be out sight, but never forgotten.

And that’s precisely why he hand picked Tim Cook to take the helm.
 
The absolute chutzpah of Timmy is unreal. Honoring a guy whose company you've singlehandedly destroyed and turned into your own political soapbox.

Piss off Cook
Calm down, geez. Apple is almost 4X the size has more satisfied customers, and is shipping more devices than when Jobs was alive. The company is literally the farthest away from destroyed as any company in the world.
 
Then why are you here? Really, why are you here? Please explain. Are you still an Apple customer? If so, why?

Nobody owes you any explanation. People are free to be where they want, buy from whom they want and do not have to answer to anyone, particularly to someone with an attitude as you exhibit.
 
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Apple is growing in ways now that they just couldn't under Jobs. They are also losing in areas they would never if Jobs were still around. Is it a push? That's the question.
 
Timing & Luck were very important in his Life (+ being in a position where Luck matters):

1.) Relationship with Woz.

2.) Relationship with John Lasseter.

3.) The rise of Napster & Kaaza, & the fear that they created (to those who ran the Music Industry).

Without #3, Apple has NO cash flow mechanism to craft the iPhone ! ... Apple would probably have a Market Cap today of less than $50B USD w/o #3 !

#2 got Jobs most of his Coin.

#1 obviously got him early Fame & Fortune, & ALL doors would (subsequently) open for him !

Jobs was talented, driven, had rare insight, but ALSO was rough around the edges.

I grew up NOT far from where Jobs grew up & even closer to where established Apple.
 
The absolute chutzpah of Timmy is unreal. Honoring a guy whose company you've singlehandedly destroyed and turned into your own political soapbox.

Piss off Cook

Completely wrong. Apple doing well under Mr. Cook and the executive team. They really are committed to privacy. Putting out great products. Making their own silicon, advancing their chips in ways their competitors will never be able to -- which is why their devices operate so well. No major missteps or scandals. Apple is superior to Windozeland in many, many ways (things like Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iMovie, PDF viewers and maker, all included with OSX, plus iCloud, whereas you have to pay a pretty penny for MSOffice; Keynote is way better than PowerPoint). Apple even issued a credit card with Goldman Sachs that has no late fees, no annual fees, no transaction fees -- that's damn good for a nice credit card you can use with Apple pay.

I'm very happy with Apple in 2019 under Cook and company (excepting the butterflop keyboard, come on Apple, retire that damn keyboard, everyone hates it). Best ecosystem, period. Longest-lasting products with longest support/software timelines, period. Thank you Apple, keep it up.
 
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I sencond this; also don't forget that Tim got rid of the MagSafe concept so more people tripped over their laptop cord to break the laptops and have to pay for repair which equals more money for investors.
I always thought it was the USB-C connector and the possibility to charge on every port on both sides that led to the loss of MagSafe. Stupid me!
What you state there really does make a lot more sense! After all, everybody knows that Tim decides every single detail on every product himself.
 
I can only imagine what Apple would be today if Steve hadn't been taken so early.

I think that it would be similar to today's Apple but some of it would have happened sooner. Steve Jobs' gift was in his ability to look ahead and anticipate where things were headed way before anybody else.

Getting the big differences out of the way, Apple would still be a far more secretive company, holding its cards close to its chest and giving few to no outside interviews with vague answers when contacted by the media. I actually think that Tim Cook's open Apple was an improvement over Steve's handling of the company. Also, I'm not sure Steve's priority would have been user privacy, a Tim Cook bet that has been paying off in spades because their primary competition — Google — cannot ever match it because their business model depends on profiting on user data. Non product business decisions like these weren't Steve Jobs' strength, though Tim Cook or others under him would have probably steered him in that direction anyway.

The Apple Watch would have still been the next big thing after the iPhone. I just think that Steve would have gotten to where we are sooner, skipping over the Watch Edition fumble, sold as a computer on your wrist rather than so much of a focus on fashion and absolutely not releasing the Apple Watch 0 which in retrospect was unusable. It just would not have been released in that state, even if it had to come out a year later.

Apple and Disney would have been much closer than they are now and rather than creating an AppleTV service, Steve would have worked in tandem with Disney to release what's now becoming Disney+ and it would have been tied to Apple products, maybe even an exclusive to AppleTV as Steve wasn't a fan of working with competitors. Recall that Steve protested allowing iPod+iTunes on Windows. He had to be convinced and of course it paid off and was instrumental in making the iPod, then the iPhone the worldwide phenomenon they became. While a Disney + Apple partnership would have been massive, I think that Tim Cook's lack of emotional attachment has allowed AirPlay and TV+ on competitors' TVs and other devices, and this is going to be the right choice in the long term by making an Apple service widely available, leading to future hardware purchases.

Steve was obsessed with quality control and in the few times Apple slipped up under his watch (i.e. mobileMe), he's brought the company in line and back on track. The butterfly keyboard issue would have caused Steve to go thermonuclear. I don't think it would have gotten this bad nor would it have gone on for this long.

Scott Forstall and Jony Ive would have both had a long future ahead of them at Apple. Other executives who hated Forstall might've left. Jony's obsession with thinness would have prevailed and we might have had a paper thin iPhone by now at the cost of battery life. I think that skeuomorphism would still be around but iOS would still have been redesigned and more modern. Steve's primary directive was always in making things dead stupid to use and skeuomorphism was the way it was accomplished.

Finally, the big one that never happened: Steve Jobs was hyper focused on making conversational computing a reality. He would never have let his eye off the ball on Siri in the way Apple under Tim Cook allowed it to happen. Siri had an enormous head start over the competition and Tim Cook let not only Google, but Amazon take the lead and then become entrenched with consumers. Tim now realizes this and has been investing heavily into AI, ML and Siri itself. Siri will eventually get to where Steve would have taken it but I think that we'd all be having full fledged, natural conversations with Siri through our Watches and AirPods by now.

Ultimately, Tim Cook was the right CEO at a time of huge growth for Apple, guiding it to being more of a mass market company than a niche, though Steve Jobs' vision for what was around the corner and obsession with getting things right would have been valuable.
 
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As Steve himself pointed out lifting your arm up to point at the screen of an iMac or MacBook is tiring for long periods of time and terribly unergonomic.
If you’re only going to do it a few times an hour you may as well not bother at all.
cough cough iPad pro cough
 
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These people don't care about Apple or Steve Jobs. They are just riding on the coat tails of history. Here's the evidence.

Apple under Steve Jobs
Laptops and desktops as fast or faster than PCs
Laptops and desktops becoming more affordable and competitively priced
OS X faster and more bug free than Windows
Bugs fixed quickly
Updates to Power Mac/Mac Pro regularly
Operating systems not called 'GM' when they are rough beta
Wide choice of industry standard and third party hardware upgrades
Slower and high quality release cycles
Industry standard graphics APIs with similar performance as PCs
Serve users first and then shareholders

Apple after Steve Jobs
Throttling **** badly designed laptops
T2 disaster controller /sound chip with bugs that Apple won't even acknowledge
macOS slower than Windows in every possible way
Bugs fixed after 10000 complaints from users
Almost impossible to upgrade anything
Much slower graphics APIs and GPU performance than PCs
New operating systems released in poor condition
Updates to Mac Pro after 6 years and it is massively slow crap compared to even a $2000 PC
Apps and services worse than the competition
Serve shareholders first and screw users

They won't change until we stop buying. The problem isn't just Apple. The tech industry is abusive. They don't care if their services make life expensive and hard for common working people. If Uber slows traffics and increases pollution or if AirBNB or WeWork makes rent unaffordable, they don't give a damn. They just want to fill their pockets up. Then politicians see the tech industry getting away with these abuses and think....hey we can do that too.
It’s called capitalism, Steve got it and obviously didn’t thrust it front and centre and down your throats. Cool gets it and shoves it as far as he can down your throat, he’s nearly there to serve those shareholders first and foremost even if it includes bare faced lying, regularly to his customers.

Privacy issues, battery scan does, poor quality both software and hardware.. all means profit first. As you said, but it is capitalism at the end of the day, more and more people are also disliking it as you see with Apple it’s now geared to make the rich richer. But no one else gets richer only poorer...

meh Jons had his many flaws and failed products, but he was IMO a Damon sure better then Cook, still he’s been dead for 8 years so I don’t really care anymore, not that I cares when he died in the first place as I didn’t know him.
This is Cooks Apple and we either buy his products or jump ship and eco system. But I don’t think everything they make is bad.
 
The bottom line is...without Steve the world wouldn't be the same. He will go down in history as one of the greatest inventors of all time. He transformed so many industries and so many lives. That smartphone we all enjoy in our pocket would not have been the same without Steve. The iPhone may be the single greatest invention of our generation.
There is so much wrong with this I dont even know where to start...

Small hint, jobs didnt invent anything.. ever!!!!!
 
Once Steve's roadmap petered out five years ago there was nothing left and nobody knew what to do. Then we get things like 18 hour battery life watches and keyboards that don't work. Apple hasn't recovered from Steve's passing.
 
There is so much wrong with this I dont even know where to start...

Small hint, jobs didnt invent anything.. ever!!!!!
Perhaps 'invented' is the wrong word but there is no denying he developed a device that people wanted to use and that changed the way we interact with each other and the world. The guy that put together the first automobile didn't 'invent' the engine or the wheel but look at how putting the two together changed everything.
 
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