Posted on 10/05/2011 8:31:25 PM PDT by FiddlePig
Tonight we learned of the passing of Apple magnate Steve Jobs… a mega-entrepreneur and developer of a myriad of useful and fun products, concepts and gadgets. Some argue he ranks among such greats as Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and Henry Ford in his contributions to the lives of us all. But we must also remind ourselves he was also a mega-billionaire, and as such (taking account my “progressive” President’s recent arguments) we must also ask did Steve Jobs pay his “fair share”, and maybe since he was a billionaire… we should just hate him?
Steve Jobs took an idea, made it work, marketed and made millions. And now he's dead. All in my life-span. Hat-tip to SJ.
/johnny
You mean the guy that was a WW I ace?
/johnny
And you still dance on their strings whether you respect them or not.
/johnny
Oh, yes. Which is why when Torvalds put the first kernel out on the newsgroups (who remembers them?) I slowly downloaded them.
Sick to death of Apple and Windows 3.1. Those were the days.
Let me just access the hardware.
I did say I wasn't here to praise Jobs. Just offer him a hat-tip for what he actually accomplished.
Funny thing, when Torvalds finally dies, I may not notice for years. The kernel wars will continue unabated.
/johnny
Steve Jobs started everything software and hardware manufacturing in Silicon Valley with American employees and contractors.
He didn’t want to move jobs overseas. He had to remain in existence, to compete and keep Apple alive.
If American tax and regulation policy were half as innovative as Steve Jobs least successful innovation, then we would not have seen the jobs flee to offshore locations.
One brilliant political change that would revive American manufacturing is right here:
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_faq
Why Steve Jobs was a liberal is I believe because the Republican Party, their establishment is retarded. The Stupid Party is an embarrassment. I remember being in California during Reagan. People came around to the Conservative brand during Reagan. They started to understand the political philosophy of Reagan. Because Reagan was not from the Republican establishment; Reagan was smart, brilliant, passionate and wise. Both Jobs and Wozniak received medals from President Reagan.
I own an iPhone and an iPod. They both work well and as represented. With all due respect, and in terms of insignificance, I am unaware of purchasing anything you produced but thanks for your thoughts on the passing of a man.
You would not of found Steve wandering around Wall Street looking for a hand out. He ran a very tight ship. He was the anti liberal in business.
Why download garbage? I recently downloaded “The Hallelujia Chorus” by the London Philharmonic from iTunes. I heard the song on tv and realized I had to have it in my collection. I was able to get it instantly. Its majestic.
It must sad living your life....a life totally devoid of music (”garbage”).
A Bug’s Life was Pixar. Antz was Dreamworks.
Add Steve to the list of Jobs lost under the 0bama administration.
LOL
you’re full of it!
the PC was around way before apple, and was quite successful before apple.
“Before Jobs (and he screwed things up, in my book), computers were for guys with soldering irons, paper tape readers, and lots free time on the weekends.”
I think you are not remembering all of history. There were many computers out at the time the first Apple was released in 1976. The first apple was also not a complete computer and needed additional parts to be a usable computer. Apple was no doubt part of that history but it is not accurate to claim they were the first, the best, or anything better than the rest.
You do realize the “99%” guy in that was being satirical?
Um... No. You obviously didn't live through that era.
/johnny
They did have the first complete slick cased PERSONAL computer with a wide appeal. I had the PET and an old S-100 bus, but those were hardly personal computers. Computers, yes. But not PCs.
/johnny
wiki:
“The first successfully mass marketed personal computer was the Commodore PET introduced in January 1977”
BTW, I did live through those years...and my memory is that the apple was way over priced even back then. When the Apple II came out, it was the best looking computer you could buy, just as today...but definitely not the best bang for the buck, just as today.
And not the first.
The current value of Apple and Commodore put that wiki statement to bed as false.
Commodore wasn't sucessful, in the long run.
And I owned the PET, back when they were kits.
/johnny
Are you for real? They are talking about the first successful PC, not comparing which company lived the longest and got the richest.
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