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Today Marks the Ninth Anniversary of Steve Jobs' Death
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I typically think this too, overall, but seeing someone else write it out makes me think of the exceptions. Compared to the product line a decade ago, we still have notebooks that work the same way as notebooks did then, imac which does too, a ridiculous Mac Pro that‘s just as odd as the previous one, iPads that do what iPads did, iPods are dead & gone, and have been replaced by the watch. Touch still hasn’t been implemented on an OS X machine, there’s still no viable AR, no Apple TV set, the display line is gone, the airport & time capsule line is gone, and we got a bunch of pay services to store our small files in the cloud instead. Hardware wise, the computers have less features and cost much more than they did, while pointing at an anorexia fetish and inevitable processor speed bumps (countered by software getting more & more heavy) as progress, taken to such an extreme that the era of intel/windows interoperability ends to support it.
So sure, it’s not an identical product line, but it’s full of changes that mostly immediately benefit shareholders in the short term. ...which not coincidentally, is the usual defense for the diminishment of Apple’s offerings. I can’t help but think Steve would have demanded a bit more big picture innovation and user-friendly features in the product line in a decades time. It could have been plenty worse, too though. Perhaps we’ll look back at this period as the era of austerity where Apple held it together to survive long enough til the next big innovation push. Too early to tell.
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We miss his brutal honesty that was at least coupled with intelligence - every day more.
There's no shortage of "brutally honest" people - just that most are also brutally dumb.
There's no shortage of "brutally honest" people - just that most are also brutally dumb.
If it was so superficial I clearly would like to see one of the critics do the same thing. I'll wait here a while to see what develops.
I can still go back to watch his old keynotes, the iPhone keynote is iconic and never gets old. When was the last time you went back to re-watch a Tim Cook keynote? Maybe if you have insomnia and need to sleep.
Normally I would not think twice about an iconic CEO's death nine years after the fact. However, I had a very good friend diagnosed and die of the same illness and within a month of Steve Jobs diagnosis and death. May they both Rest In Peace.
In 2010 the base model MacBook Pro cost $1199, adjusted for inflation that is $1429 in 2020. The current base model MacBook Pro is $1299.
You'll find the same sort of comparison across the range.
There is more than 1 type. He had the type that CAN be cured and didn't do the surgery in time.
Interesting photo of Steve Jobs. It very obviously has digital boca... something that didn't exist on the iPhone 4s. Notice the background is blurred but the section of his circular lens on his classes isn't... Wonder if this was a test photo of a tech that had not been released?
As a 37-year veteran of Apple products, I believe your comments are spot-on.
I think the day is memorable in a lot of people's minds because it came as kind of a shock. Plus, the day of death can be a time to remember a person's life.
I was only 13 when it happened, but I remember the moment vividly. Mainly because I had an Android phone then and shortly before I heard of Jobs' death, I dropped the phone and the glass shattered. I always took that as a sign that I needed to return to the iPhone (which I did).
RIP SJ - I remember being somewhat saddened by the news, as I had recently bought a Macbook Pro at the time.
I think you'll find that it was the cancer that killed him and beyond that is highly speculative and unscientific - running counterfactuals based on statistics is not useful post facto.
What can we learn from Steve Jobs about complementary and alternative therapies?
"Many journalists mentioned and even focused on Jobs’ initial decision to forego conventional treatments and instead use complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies, including acupuncture, botanicals, and dietary changes (Grady, 2011). This was chronicled in his biography and corroborated via interviews with his friends and colleagues (Isaacson, 2011). However, what many journalists failed to note is that the evidence supporting any specific conventional treatment approach (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy) for GEP-NETs comprises a slim literature, and the evidence base for use of CAM therapeutic approaches for GEP-NETs is virtually non-existent. After a delay of nine months after diagnosis, in 2004, Jobs opted for surgery. He died 7 years later."
It is unknown whether Jobs’ outcomes would have been different if he had pursued surgery at the time of his diagnosis, or if had followed a specific chemotherapy protocol. And it is unknown how effective any of his acupuncture, botanical and dietary approaches may have been before or after his surgery.