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Today Marks Steve Jobs' 66th Birthday as MacRumors Turns 21
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Happy Birthday Steve and MacRumors!
Still miss the Apple of old led by Steve Jobs. Hasn’t been the same since.
Although the rumours on future Mac products has reignited a bit of that excitement that had gone missing for the last 5-6 years. The Mac has always been my favourite Apple product. Hopefully some of the rumours come to fruition.
Still miss the Apple of old led by Steve Jobs. Hasn’t been the same since.
Although the rumours on future Mac products has reignited a bit of that excitement that had gone missing for the last 5-6 years. The Mac has always been my favourite Apple product. Hopefully some of the rumours come to fruition.
No, it's actually not "very easy". The 5-year survival rate for pancreatic NET is about 54% on average. Not bad but hardly a guaranteed cure. Steve actually ended up making it 8 years. It's not clear that a 9 month delay in treatment at the very beginning, out of 8 years, would have made the difference between life and death. It might have, but we'll never know; and it certainly doesn't warrant 99% confidence.
When Apple adopted Unix, I abandoned Microsoft. I remember in the mid 1980's Apple was a novelty when "'grownups were using IBM DOS and IBM PC's. Man, I'm old and older than Jobs. I remember using COBOL, tapes, punch cards and Fortran. Basic was for hobbyists. I still have my IBM PC with a self installed 10Mb hard drive. LOL
How cute that the person who's culture made Apple what it is is being marked by a man who's nearly single-handedly demolished all that the first man did.
I missed having to use punch cards in my college programming classes by one semester. Glad I missed them.
I did take Fortran programming in college, though.
Never had to use COBOL or tapes, but COBOL was used at some of the companies I worked for.
Same here, I really like the community here. Before I started posting regularly, I also would visit Cult of Mac, 9 to 5 Mac and AppleInsider. I still visit those sites, but no where near as much as MacRumors.
And I have not had any desire to register for those sites and post in the forums - either the forums / posts seemed to be low volume, or I just didn't care for the general tone of most of the posts / posters. Sure, I don't agree with everything everyone says here in the MacRumors forum, but:
A) I doubt everyone agrees with what I say
B) There are a lot of smart/funny/good people posting here
C) I learn a lot about technical matters that are deeper than what I have worked with as a developer and BA in IT (especially @cmaier, but not just him).
I don't participate in a lot of forums because there is a lot of toxic behavior, but I don't see that much at all here at MacRumors.
Happy Birthday! Man I've been coming to this site since 2001 and joined in 2002. Lots and lots of memories here. This site was my salvation for help when OS X first came out. I would have spent hours and hours trying to play a dvd on OS X 1.0 if someone here hadn't told me it didn't have a dvd reader program lol.
I wonder if Cook gets sick of living under Jobs' shadow...
I mean - it's not every job you take that every time the previous, now dead person would have had a birthday, you have to publically write some inspiring dross.
I mean - it's not every job you take that every time the previous, now dead person would have had a birthday, you have to publically write some inspiring dross.
I think Tim got over that long ago, if the shadow you can't escape belongs to THE Steve Jobs it isn't really much to be ashamed about. I think things would have been different if Steve was still here for sure, of course, it has to but I think Steve would be proud of how well Tim's looked after the company, lets not forget he hand picked Tim. Carrying the company he left behind to be the most valuable company in history is amazing regardless of how many try to spin that into a negative
I'd love to hear how Musk is a "scamming conman". Childish at times and with a big ego sure, but then again Jobs had a big ego as well.
Yeah this board has always been a mainstay for me. Check it every day even though I no longer own anything Apple
Belated B day greetings to MacRumors. Enjoy this forum and site so much. 🥳
And without Steve Jobs, I wouldn’t be a member or as creative.
And without Steve Jobs, I wouldn’t be a member or as creative.
Seeing as though they were friends and highly respected Jobs, I doubt it. He doesn't strike me as being petty. Similarly, I suspect Jobs would be very proud of Cook's leadership at Apple over the years.
Cook's very focused on his work and seeing that Apple excels in the midst of a devastating once in a hundred years pandemic, and looking after Apple's 140,000+ employees.