Sure looks like his wife Laurene in the background. And perhaps his kids on the left.
Posted on 10/05/2011 4:50:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
Steve Jobs, the mastermind behind Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes, has died in California. Jobs was 56.
His death was reported by The Associated Press, citing Apple.
Jobs co-founded Apple Computer in 1976 and, with his childhood friend Steve Wozniak, marketed what was considered the world's first personal computer, the Apple II.
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And my friend Woz? Markula?
Sheesh
RoundRects define Apple products just as surely as do plain white boxes and minimalist industrial design.
Not just all over the user interface of the MacOS and OS-X; the outline of the iPod/iPhone/iPad, MacBook, MacMini, iMac, and MacPro enclosures, their keyboard keys, even the video adapters; all are RoundRects of essentially (if not identically) the same style and form.
Sure! stripes and polka dots are the same.
What’s with people like that guy?
That’s almost exactly what he says about his initial diagnosis in the Stanford commencement speech from 2005.
On life, what life hands you, connecting the dots and on death.
Well worth watching. Thanks!
Memory Eternal!
“What if Xerox acted on the vision?”
Actually, the biggest problem was hardware. The Xerox machine was the size of a card table and so powerless as to be useless. Even the Lisa failed because of the high cost and low performance. Nothing could really happen until cheaper more powerful microprocessors came along.
While Jobs did have brains and innovation, the biggest thing he had going for him was guts.
Rest In Peace and condolences to his family.
What a miserable day; prayers for his wife and kids.
"Almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. "
- Steve Jobs
The Xerox of that day (and indeed, the Xerox of today) would NEVER have allowed Jobs to get into management.
Jobs didn’t have a degree, much less an Ivy League degree or a Harvard MBA on top of an undergrad degree.
That’s one thing we can see consistently across the tech industry: The really ground-breaking companies of the last 30 years or so have a lot of management or founders who have no degrees at all. Gates doesn’t. Jobs doesn’t. Woz didn’t have a degree until he went back to get one, and by then he had to register under a false name at Cal Berkeley.
One of the reasons why you see so many startups in the tech business is because once a company gets big and they bring in “professional” management, they get stupid, bloated and ossified. Right about then, they quit hiring anyone who doesn’t have a degree (even if they’re hiring someone with an EngLit degree to write code, and the EngLit degree has *nothing* to do with writing good code, they’ll take the EngLit major over some young guy who has no degree but who can write a kernel in his sleep...), they start worshipping credentials instead of rewarding ideas, and things generally start going forward and down.
While I am no Apple fan by any stretch of the imagination, all I can say is this. Risk and innovation gave us Apple. Hope and change gave us Solyndra. Steve Jobs had a radical, revolutionary view of technology that has literally set the standard for this century.
I, personally, found computers from Atari and Commodore far more intriguing than those from Apple growing up, but I’d be a complete liar if I said that I didn’t feel a similar sentiment looking at Apple products today.
RIP Mr. Jobs ... you had a skill that very view engineers on this planet have ... and thank you for sharing that with this world.
“I still don’t know what ailed him. “
Metastatic neuroendocrine cancer of the pancreas. Possibly an islet cell tumor. These frequently spread to the liver, and there are rumors he had a liver transplant.
A slow cancer, so chemo and radiation don’t work.
I think his diagnosis-to-death path was about six years give or take.
Sure looks like his wife Laurene in the background. And perhaps his kids on the left.
Sad news. RIP....
A hater? That’s idiotic.
You stated he was ‘involved in the creative design’, that’s not ‘inventing’.
I said he hung out with smart people and I mentioned Andy Hertzfeld in my post.
Maybe you’re confusing me with someone else.
It’s a fact that Jon Rubenstein brought together the technology that was needed for the ipod, not Jobs.
And like I said, the GridPad and the EO were much earlier than the ipad. Those are facts, not ‘hate’.
Rest in Peace, Mr. Jobs. You have been a great innovator, a genius of sorts on this earth.
““professional” management, they get stupid, bloated and ossified”
Mainly because management doesn’t know what it is that is being done. Quite frankly, managers are like daycare supervisors and companies at some point shoudl realize that management really isn’t needed if in fact the workers know what they’re doing. Do you really need a manager in a tech company, if the person knows code and is doing it correctly. The most successful companies always have a close relationship with the people who are doing the actual work, not supervising. Managers are in all honestly just nannies and people who are hired because they are too stupid to know how to do anything and are too stupid to create a company. I do not think that Steve needed anyone to successfully tell him how to run his business and how to code his programs. He didn’t need a manager keeping him on track.
“RoundRects define Apple products just as surely as do plain white boxes and minimalist industrial design. “
I picked this story because it illustrates the passion he had for the smallest detail, in order to make the computer experience even just this much more natural and intuitive.
You have a problem.
That’s a nice pic of him, Bunny. Must have been taken before he got sick. He doesn’t seem at gaunt there.
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