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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Steve Jobs is who I think of whenever I hear some ignorant punk decrying the high pay of CEOs.
You are simply making stuff up.
You need to take a chill pill.
RIP. May his family be comforted.
A great man taken too young. Now his mind is free.
Yes, I agree. (I’ve owned the stock and haven’t used the products, though my family members and close friends have.)
I was first a programmer, then programmer/analyst, later a ‘systems programmer’, and then ‘support engineer’ (whipping boy for frustrated customers, really), and lastly a systems (as opposed to applications) programmer and systems configurer with the title of ‘software engineer’, but I’m still not sure that programmers deserve to be called ‘engineers’, like bridge builder, and computer hardware engineers. It never made me feel any better, anyway.
I don’t make things up, I lived them. What are you, ten?
Name your projects, then.
True story.
Woz has always said so, as has Markula and Kawasaki
I’m done with you, just let Steve RIP without denigrating him. Oh, my last project I worked on with an Apple product, was to help integrate ia wireless Newton into a ticket writing machine for SFPD motorcycle cops, in the late 1990s. It accessed state-wide criminal databases for potential wanted suspects before writing a ticket via a portable printer on the motorcycle.
Thanks Steve!
RIP
Posted from my (your) iPad.
He added so much to this world - we were blessed to have him for as long as we did. Prayers for his family and loved ones.
He was an innovator in that he innovated how technology was applied. He also was a genius in the area of industrial design selection - he "knew" which design to use, which to toss and how to guide a team to make them.
A true visionary and leader.
He also brought Apple back from the abyss.
One thing I have always found interesting is the free walk Apple gets for its labor practices while Walmart can do no right. Not sure if Jobs had anything to do with that besides produce a quality product.
> 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.
I first read that story elsewhere, a few months ago. What was funny and coincidental, was that one evening while FReeping, shortly before my first encounter with the story and thus not knowing anything about RoundRects, I suddenly had the realization that the shape of the keys of my MacBook, and the trackpad, were perfectly echoed in the outer perimeter shape of the overall enclosure, not just in one, but in all three dimensions. I was entranced, and in that moment I "knew" that rounded rectangles were in some sense the defining "Apple figure/shape". (No, I wasn't high. But I was as if enlightened.)
Suddenly the rectangles-with-rounded-corners were visible to me in every Apple product. It was as if I had stumbled onto a great joyous secret.
Then shortly after that experience, I first read the story of Bill Atkinson and Steve Jobs and the RoundRects. Steve's statement: “Rectangles with rounded corners are everywhere! Just look around this room!” was exactly how I had felt.
I firmly believe that the undeniable effect of Apple products on people ("Oh, that must be an Apple product!") comes in part from that consistency in product shape. I don't know if the RoundRect, as applied to the industrial design of Apple products, is trademarked, but I would not be surprised if it were.
I guess I misread what you said :) ... I screw up all of the time. Maybe if I used OSX, I wouldn’t make mistakes like that :).
As for the definition of “engineer” and how it *should* be applied, well, if one can effectively flip 1s and 0s for a living, they’re an engineer in this day and age :) ... key word is “effective” :).
I am not sure that the name had not been picked for this model up to a year ago, but I wonder if his failing health was part of the “transition” warning in the last earnings report.
A the time I thought they gave us the 'engineer' titles in lieu of salary raises.
What is so striking, and makes me so sad about Steve Jobs passing, is that he was only 56, and had the world at his finger tips.
He worked hard all his life, had all the money he would ever need, and he was doing good things with it.
Despite that, he was unable to survive cancer.
It is a wake up call to make sure that we are right spiritually, that we focus every minute on God and family, and the things that are important.
Best.
I immediately thought: That's why you are a waitress at 30...you don't know who the Thomas Edison of our generation is...even though you have one of his iPhone's.
The misfit. The rebel. The troublemaker. The round peg in the square hole.
The One Who Saw Things Differently.
He wasn't fond of rules. And he had no respect for the status quo.
You can quote him, disagree with him, glorify or vilify him. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore him. Because he changed things.
He pushed the human race forward. And while some may have seen him as the crazy one, we saw genius.
Because the man who was crazy enough to think he could change the world, was the one who did.
These lines from an Apple commercial should be on his tombstone as his epitaph.
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