Today Marks Steve Jobs' 64th Birthday as MacRumors Turns 19

[newtman]

Your annual reminder that even though Steve Jobs built a great business, he was by almost all accounts a terrible human being

 

[Will do good]

Don't call him an inventor. That's what.

Little bitter?

 

[Mr Dobey]

Thank you Steve!

 

[341328]

Don't call him an inventor. That's what.

Sounds like you’re jealous of his success?

 

[inkswamp]

And you know this how? Did you know him personally and interacted with him often? Or are you just going by the usual lying media reports?

I suspect it has less to do with the media and more to do with the commenter's own biases.

 

[groove-agent]

Happy Birthday Steve. You are missed. Apple isn't the same without you.

Imagine what he could have accomplished if he was still around.

 

[28monkeys]

I don't think Apple can take the big risks like the small Chinese knock-offs can. The resulting PR media onslaught could do irreparable harm to Apple, mores than any sluggish economy ever could. Apple has to be calculating. Steve was willing to gamble big buck then. Don't think the same should be done today.

Chinese aren't small now. Fundamentally they took a lot of physical ideas from Apple but right now, they had moved on with new design features. Apple has the strength of software, they need to utilize it further with more WOW physical factors.

 

[Virinprew]

You’re hurt.

That’s ok.

presumptive. That is the flaw in your thinking.

 

[Wando64]

... SJ is dead, and none of it matters or has any enduring effect on any future stories here.

Nobody can deny that SJ played a significant role in making Apple one of the most successful technological companies ever.
It would be incredibly shortsighted to ignore his contribution and fail to learn any lesson from it.
That is why we study history. All dead people, but the lessons that we can learn are very important indeed.

 

[Steve686]

Nobody can deny that SJ played a significant role in making Apple one of the most successful technological companies ever.
It would be incredibly shortsighted to ignore his contribution and fail to learn any lesson from it.
That is why we study history. All dead people, but the lessons that we can learn are very important indeed.

What lessons did Apple, after SJ’s death, learn?? Bent iPads are OK? Innovation is secondary?

What did “we” learn and how did it directly help “us”?

 

[Wando64]

What lessons did Apple, after SJ’s death, learn?? Bent iPads are OK? Innovation is secondary?

What did “we” learn and how did it directly help “us”?

Have YOU been instrumental in shaping the success of a number of trailblazing companies such as Apple, Next and Pixar?

As for the lessons that Apple should have learnt... I rest my case.

 

[Steve686]

Have YOU been instrumental in shaping the success of a number of trailblazing companies such as Apple, Next and Pixar?

As for the lessons that Apple should have learnt... I rest my case.

Rest nothing. Apple is going to get steamrolled by these Asian competitors because of their business model.

Still didn’t answer the question of the post you are replying to.

Better reopen that case you ‘rested’.