If you read his official autobiography he says he was basically terrified of getting cut open and undergoing surgery. Fear messes with your mind and can make you do stupid things.
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If you read his official autobiography he says he was basically terrified of getting cut open and undergoing surgery. Fear messes with your mind and can make you do stupid things.
Well even today Google maps - in Toronto, ON , Canada there are roads, in person views that STILL show snow on the ground at 1 specific site. And then another just 1 to 10fewt away pure sunny summer day! It's more annoying than confusing today IF you know the streets and intersections, yet for those that don't really confusing.
I still say Forstall's lead on Apple Maps was undermined and with his VAST work, knowledge and expertise in what he brought to NeXT and Apple should've been heavily considered vs lack of kissing the ring/foot/ass of thr new CEO to see it wasn't HIM that crippled Maps, but the source company and lack of expertise of a TEAM (something Apple keeps pushing and re-arranging about every event) since the vectors was poorly understood and implemented showing turns off a bridge. Now look at how awesome it is when people DO THE WORK NEEDED!
THIS!
HOW THE FUNK did Jobs KNOW THIS soo close to visiting HP Parc and yet ONLY a decade later realize that him and his team ONLY focused on the GUI and completely missed the more important crucial part which was networking?!
I recall see a video of speech at Apple where he superficially stated this shortly after his return!
Just imagine for a moment if Apple didn't miss that. IBM and Windows wouldn't even exist today!
And I'd be going for my Apple programming an engineering courses not IT Professional + Cloud + Cyber Security fully based on Windows right now.
Would you be so kind to share the mp4 video for download please or the direct link to save As ?!
Thanks in advance.
Bro it takes 2 to make this thing go right! Each plays their part! Now the modern day Woz, evolved to Ave, then that bruiser looking dude whom engineered the MacBook and MacBook Pro back in 200i and stuck around to help lead and teach the new team until the Arm/Apple Silicon Mac Daddy Jony Srouji! Our M-Series addiction dealer lol
Thanks but still cannot download directly.
At least NOW we know WHO inspired Steve with New Balance kicks
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Tim is an absolute tool and ripped the heart out of Apple and just butchered the company.
You should read the book by Tripp Mickle, After Steve: How Apple Became A Trillion Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul.
Next, Analog Kid responds by saying you're insulting his/her freedom of speech. After about 20 rounds of this, the thread is completely derailed.
Anyway, sorry for sticking my nose in where it wasn't invited. I'm just trying to show off my prophetic abilities to compete with Steve Jobs. 😉
The survival rate of pancreatic cancer is about 10%. Think about that nonsense.
People forget how much Tim Cook is doing exactly what Jobs wanted him to do. Cook was Steve’s hand-picked replacement. Steve knew that supply line and optimization were key to growth and survival.
I simply disagree with the idea that Apple has “lost its soul.” Job’s was too big a figure to be replaced so soon by another visionary; the Vision of Steve will last 50 years or more. Nobody could have come in and been Steve. And Apple didn’t need it. I am confident that Steve left notebooks of ideas and that they are consulted and remembered by Apple Inc.
I write this on my AVP; Steve was calling for “headphones for the eyes” decades ago. Apple is on the right track. IMO. Your mileage will most certainly vary.
I simply disagree with the idea that Apple has “lost its soul.” Job’s was too big a figure to be replaced so soon by another visionary; the Vision of Steve will last 50 years or more. Nobody could have come in and been Steve. And Apple didn’t need it. I am confident that Steve left notebooks of ideas and that they are consulted and remembered by Apple Inc.
I write this on my AVP; Steve was calling for “headphones for the eyes” decades ago. Apple is on the right track. IMO. Your mileage will most certainly vary.
Ah, yes, "earthshaking advances" but no actual cure and no actual prevention despite virtually unlimited funding for decades. Millions of convenient lifetime patients, and zero actual fixes. But please, tell us more why Jobs shouldn't have trusted himself over "medical science."
Pancreatic cancer mostly always "wins", no matter what you do
Well he might have had one or two more years, wich is not bad, but at what price.
He lived the fullest he could, I think is better that than longer with suffering.
Thanks!
I had never seen this young Steve Jobs speech. I am very impressed. I could imagine Jeff Bridges playing the part of SJ in a movie; he's got that same high energy expressiveness and earnestness.
What are you basing that on?
"the form of pancreatic cancer from which Jobs suffered (a neuroendocrine islet tumor) was one of the 5% or so that are slow growing and most likely to be cured."
Steve Jobs' Cancer Treatment Regrets
Steve Jobs' "magical thinking" may have defined his business brilliance, but it could have been his downfall in his fight against cancer.
www.forbes.com
I still remember back in like 1999 or so, hearing some guy at Best Buy or Circuit City calling USB-A a "Mac connector" because it hadn't really made its way into many PCs yet.
Ha, I remember that as well. I used to have a box full of cables for the various peripherals I had, each seemingly with a different style connector. Even when the switch from 3.5” floppies to Zip Drives and finally to CD-Rom discs happened (with external drives), it was the slow connectors that ended up being the bottleneck, which is why Apple came to market with FireWire. It’s crazy to think about the vast amount of change over what was really a very short time period.
RIP. Makes you wonder what the market would look like today if he were around, instead we're gearing up for iPhone iteration 04.6748. Don't get me wrong, thanks Tim Cook for my stock prices, but there is certainly an intangible that Apple is missing without Jobs.
A very impressive overview of the future of computing by a 28 year old entrepreneur. He did get a couple of things wrong though. That was one of them. He didn't quite envision what adding a radio and an online database would add to the MIT demo even though those concepts were brought up separately. The other...
Steve downplayed the idea that companies would want to have large databases on individuals. Definitely wrong on that account. I think part of the disconnect is at the time there was a lot of distrust of computers based on many misunderstandings of what they were and what they could do (mainly due to science fictional computers on TV and in the movies). It was one of the reasons that DEC (mini-computers) CEO Kenneth Olsen was quoted as saying, "No one needs a computer in their home." Olsen thought he was reassuring people that computers weren't needed in a personal context and missing the whole revolution that they provided.
Jobs had an ethos that could be called hippy. He saw computers as a way to empower the individual. "A bicycle for the mind." Making money was for him the way to keep making more great products, not vice versa. Whatever his personal failings, you have to appreciate him for that. Contrast him to someone like Bezos, who had no particular care for books but saw a market for selling things online. He could've been selling shoes; it didn't matter.
There are many things to dislike about Apple, but whether you like them or use their products, they've been an indispensable company in personal computing. And Jobs was an indispensable part of that.
There are many things to dislike about Apple, but whether you like them or use their products, they've been an indispensable company in personal computing. And Jobs was an indispensable part of that.
Wonderful that it's written down and documented when Apple lost its Soul - good title.
But I lived through it, and honestly I don't want to read about it yet. I bought the book by Isacson and have it in my bookshelf, collecting some dust though.
I wanted to move on too during these years. As my father and brother died 2008, so I had enough to handle when Steve died, personally as well.
Right now I just wait eagerly to hear about the day when Tim resigns.I sincerly hope the next CEO can bring back some soul to Apple whomever that will be.
This article - https://www.businessinsider.com/ste...ily-nepo-baby-eve-reed-secret-daughter-2023-1 - states that:
"Steve Jobs told Isaacson he envisioned his youngest daughter running Apple someday or becoming president of the United States.
"She's a pistol and has the strongest will of any kid I've ever met," he told Isaacson."
Very interesting. I wonder what young Steve would have thought about the incredible amount of homelessness and joblessness we see today.