They have moved on. Just showing respect where it is due. Apple wouldn’t be what it is today without Steve so why is it bad to remember him on the day he died?
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Tim Cook Tweets in Memory of Steve Jobs, Who Passed Away Seven Years Ago Today
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It's crazy when you look back to that first iPhone Keynote in 2007 and the impact that it had for smartphone tech. i still think Apple carries that same momentum from that day. Even though their keynotes are relatively the same every year..I think people tune in to relive that moment of Steve Jobs introducing the first iPhone to the world.
We and Apple miss you so much Steve!!
in 7 Years, not a single groundbraking computer upgrade...what a shame...
Mac Mini, Mac Pro, iMac, All stuck in time outdated and overpriced.
Sadly, this is how the new Apple honors your innovation legacy. How sad...
in 7 Years, not a single groundbraking computer upgrade...what a shame...
Mac Mini, Mac Pro, iMac, All stuck in time outdated and overpriced.
Sadly, this is how the new Apple honors your innovation legacy. How sad...
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Well, considering there would be no Apple TWICE (its founding in 1976, and it's saving in 1997), I think briefly honoring Steve yearly is a small price to pay. Don't you?
This should be mandatory viewing for every MBA. There are no more educational 3 minutes about how not to run a company than these 3 minutes. Please take a minute to watch this right now.
Running a company using fear and intimidation tactics, like Steve did, is not a good way to run a company either. He was a jerk, and there are special worms that eat jerks when they die.
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I got chills all over. Some time ago I saw that. Thanks.
Felt like he was talking to the present Apple, from some timeless place.
We would have never heard of Woz but for Jobs. As it is, Woz became wealthy beyond his wildest dreams.
You seem to think everyone is unfamiliar with Jobs' *famous* visit to Xerox PARC, but it's an integral part of the story. Jobs is credited with recognizing the potential of the revolutionary user interface, and bringing it to the world; not with inventing it.
Running a company using fear and intimidation tactics is morally wrong. However Jobs, Bezos, and many others have proven that those tactics work when running financially profitable companies. Profit at the expense of morality are rewarded in our society. They should not be honored and called positive roll-models, yet that is what keeps happening.
Just a regular reminder to keep buying into the legacy of Steve Jobs when Tim Cook has nothing to offer.
RIP Steven Paul Jobs. We miss you and thanks for everything.
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Yeah and they'll probably do it until we're long forgotten!
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Yeah and they'll probably do it until we're long forgotten!
Think Different.
I miss the good old days when Apple had a soul.
I miss the good old days when Apple had a soul.
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Maybe because the Apple of today is very different from the Apple of yesteryear, which in turn necessitates a brand new business strategy?
For example, Apple today deals more heavily with strategic challenges such as breaking into new markets. In this regard, a steady hand like Tim Cook is infinitely better suited to navigating these challenges than Steve Jobs. Either way, I’m not convinced Apple would be better off with Jobs still at the helm with the company at its current size and trajectory anyway. I dareday he would have stepped aside anyway by now.
To me, Steve Job's legacy was instilling a design-led culture at Apple, and from what I can see, it's still every bit as alive today as it was back when he was around. Wait and see. We are merely bearing witness to the start of Apple's ascent. All the way to the top.
I am going to add the words: “to you” to the end of your post.
iow, Tim Cook has nothing to offer to you. Obviously at 1T the company has something to offer its 200M+ customers.
Say what you want about Steve Jobs, we will remember him as among the greatest business titans in American history, warts and all. His vision of "humanizing" the experience of buying and using computing devices has literally changed the world. And the iPhone--unlike the Palm Treo or Windows Mobile devices that required a small physical pointer to use--literally changed the way we all communicate, fulfilling the science fiction vision of a personal communication device many decades before science fiction writers envisioned its arrival.
Jobs wouldn't have released the watch the way it was, an unfinished product.
Jobs wouldn't have released an iPhone that was WAY out of people's price ranges with the EXCESS, much less having a store with 4 different versions of the iPhone for sale at the same time.
Jobs wouldn't have released an iPhone that was WAY out of people's price ranges with the EXCESS, much less having a store with 4 different versions of the iPhone for sale at the same time.