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Today Marks Steve Jobs' 64th Birthday as MacRumors Turns 19
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Arn, congratulations on building a successful tech journalism platform from such humble beginnings.
Steve played the orchestra. That was his job. And not everyone who can design, engineer, or whatever can do that.
Jobs competitive advantage was that he knew how to utilise technology for the benefit and use of the average consumer. This is why Apple has such loyal customers you don't see for Dell or Microsoft.
Tim on the other hand utilises Apple brand name to milk customers for the shareholders.
Tim on the other hand utilises Apple brand name to milk customers for the shareholders.
Apple fan boys, and girls, have their quasi religious icons in the form of the deceased becoming beatified and plenty of virtual platforms for the cult to express their faith. Alas they’re an anachronism, the real world is beyond their grasp, their voice a wail in the void of a bygone age. Meanwhile Apple marches on, a modern company with a competent CEO. The cult is ignored and irrelevant, incapable of forming themselves into a meaningful pressure group and making themselves heard, which given their mentality, is probably a good thing overall.
I wish Mr. Jobs were still at Apple. No doubt he would have already invented "one more thing" or rather several more things that no one saw coming, and turned the industry on it's head again, as he seemed to enjoy doing so much.
Not God level.... far from it. Then again, who is "God" level except for the big guy himself!
But Jobs was a person obviously gifted in the idea, management, and presentation department, who pulled Apple Computer out of their sometimes nonsensical 90's slumber, some VERY bad ideas and decisions, brought them back from the edge of extinction, and made Apple what it is today.
I see hints of Apple going back to the same near-fatal choices they made before Mr. Jobs return with their plans for apparent proprietary isolationism in quite a few areas, and I hope they will look back carefully on what NOT to do and what Jobs did to make them the idea and marketing behemoth they became, again, AFTER Mr. Jobs return.
In my opinion, Apple is trying to put themselves on that "Isolation Island" once again as it relates to the Mac world... away from the majority of the business and creative world's professionals, and hoping people will once again paddle to their island for a completely new architecture change and all of the headaches and expense associated with those type of changes. Like someone recently posted regarding such, "I will not follow Apple through yet another processor/platform change." ARM procs are fine for iPhones and iPads, but leave my Intel processors alone if you wish me to continue buying iMacs or other Mac systems.
I don't think Mr. Jobs would agree with those types of changes at Apple again, either. After all, he was smart enough to finally put Apple on par with the rest of the computing world by switching to Intel processors, and allow Apple's professional users to be able to boot into Windows when needed. And those changes alone put Apple's Mac sales through the roof in comparison to it's past.
I miss you, Mr. Jobs... and I wish you could somehow place some sensible bugs in the ears of the "powers that be" at Apple now. They need world class advice, once again!
BTW... Happy Birthday, MacRumors!
Only my personal $.02 cents... for what it's worth!
Not God level.... far from it. Then again, who is "God" level except for the big guy himself!
But Jobs was a person obviously gifted in the idea, management, and presentation department, who pulled Apple Computer out of their sometimes nonsensical 90's slumber, some VERY bad ideas and decisions, brought them back from the edge of extinction, and made Apple what it is today.
I see hints of Apple going back to the same near-fatal choices they made before Mr. Jobs return with their plans for apparent proprietary isolationism in quite a few areas, and I hope they will look back carefully on what NOT to do and what Jobs did to make them the idea and marketing behemoth they became, again, AFTER Mr. Jobs return.
In my opinion, Apple is trying to put themselves on that "Isolation Island" once again as it relates to the Mac world... away from the majority of the business and creative world's professionals, and hoping people will once again paddle to their island for a completely new architecture change and all of the headaches and expense associated with those type of changes. Like someone recently posted regarding such, "I will not follow Apple through yet another processor/platform change." ARM procs are fine for iPhones and iPads, but leave my Intel processors alone if you wish me to continue buying iMacs or other Mac systems.
I don't think Mr. Jobs would agree with those types of changes at Apple again, either. After all, he was smart enough to finally put Apple on par with the rest of the computing world by switching to Intel processors, and allow Apple's professional users to be able to boot into Windows when needed. And those changes alone put Apple's Mac sales through the roof in comparison to it's past.
I miss you, Mr. Jobs... and I wish you could somehow place some sensible bugs in the ears of the "powers that be" at Apple now. They need world class advice, once again!
BTW... Happy Birthday, MacRumors!
Only my personal $.02 cents... for what it's worth!
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Yeah but, the problem is it was almost always Jobs himself who had the idea of that next great thing to begin with... FACT!
I am a musician... so I'll use this analogy:
"Engineers may route signals and manage most of the mixing and technical feats in the studio. But if it weren't for the Producer and his ideas the song would never have been worked, nurtured and developed the way it did. Even the mix itself is almost solely guided by the Producer. Who cares who twists the knobs and raises/lowers faders if it's being done mechanically and without feel and purpose."
So no, I disagree with your assumption regarding Mr. Jobs... he "invented" quite a bit with that visionary brain of his! Ask yourself this, how many "Great New Ideas" have we seen from Apple since Mr. Jobs left us?
Silence? I humbly rest my case! :¬)
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It’s cooks fault not wall streets.
Cook could make apple a great company, many shareholders are apple fans, I mean Steve’s apple, they are more excited about greatness not greediness
All I Know, is that Steve Jobs was a visionary. He had his issues, but if he only going to be 64 today, that is way too soon to have left this planet years ago! Yes, the world thinks differently now, things have moved along, we have people 24/7 looking at the devices rather than looking at the real world of wonders around them, but some look at the real world around them via apps that show a beautiful, wonderful world! Sure there is fake news! and if people want to give up their privacy and ability to see the real world, that is sad. Or they can embrace their devices to record and show off Earth and their world 2019! The beauty of the seasons, the trees the birds the comments, the comedy! and so on! or they can get sucked into living IN a small device for it's approval, contacts and social interaction... or maybe leave the at home or off sometimes! The news replies, emails, FB Comments, instagram etc etc will still be there tomorrow! BUT TODAY WOULKD HAVE GONE FOREVER! I am sure Steve Jobs would have said something like , "Live for today!, use your devices when you have finished appreciating the beauty, the life, the love of those around you... "Live For Today" LFT!
Steve Jobs died of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, which is different than the more common type of pancreatic cancer. It has considerably higher survival rates, particularly for people with local or regional disease. It's possible, even likely, that Mr. Jobs would have lived longer had his therapy not been delayed while he pursued alternative medicine.
SJ’s participation in the engineering discussions certainly varied, but he was absolutely key to numerous inventions. You are completely ignorant of how Apple worked under him. Your claim is junk.