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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That National Review article has so many errors of fact in it that it is worthless as a historical review of Jobs' career or as a foundation for the opinion it espouses on Jobs' failures leading to his successes. To anyone who knows anything at all about the history of Apple, he shows he did absolutely NO fact checking at all before he published. . . and most of what he claims are facts, aren't. The comments following were an even more disturbing window into the Liberal thinking process, showing a lack of understanding of how the business world works. While Steve did have his failures, this writer's analysis is WAY off the mark!
No, Apple has been LARGER than Exxon Mobile Since August 9, 2011 and except for about 15 minutes one day, has remained number one since then. Steve lived to see that happen.
“Mr. Jobs didn’t invent things. He marketed things.”
Heh. I´d say the evidence is pretty thick on the ground that Jobs did much, much more than merely “marketing”, I.e. you are using a false dichotomy to make your point.
One of the great American entrepreneurs and visionaries. He will forever be associated with Apple. He made the Mac a household word and showed there is an alternative to Microsoft. He was really at his best as an industrial designer. His products were cool, innovative and timeless. Steve Jobs will be sadly missed.
No it should not read that, because that is not the headline
You’re thinking of Dieter Rams and Dietrich Lubs. Simple, timeless and elegant design. The German Braun and American Apple have much in common. Functional products that look good, work well and make a statement. I’ve always liked the spartan simplicity of the Bauhaus. Its fits in my conservative thinking. Keep it classical, like I always like to say. The simple is the beautiful and the beautiful is the simple.
Thanks, Steve Jobs!
Wow! Didn’t think of that. Bet you’re right though!
@THEHermanCain: This country is made great by those who personify the American Dream; Steve Jobs gave us new ways with which to dream
Not too many things bring me pause any more. But when I heard this last night, I had to stop and ponder. To me personally, Steve Jobs was instrumental in pioneering the technologies that I would master to build my present-day livelihood -- a fulfilling and lucrative career which is still ongoing.
Not too many men can claim to have changed the world; fewer still are those who are so recognized in their own lifetimes. Steve Jobs, a true leader and visionary, easily holds that honor.
Rest well, Steve.
I’m trying to understand something.
I’ve seen a lot of hard leftists mourn SJ.... Big technology innovator, etc and a “rich guy”. Seems surprising, contradictory to their usual crap.
I looked him up on wikipedia and he was no saint... lied to his friend for $$, and it looks like his friend did most of the real work, refused to acknowledge his daughter who briefly was on welfare until her mother took action, etc.
Somehow I get the impression that if Bill Gates died the same way the same leftists might grudgingly acknowledge his accomplishments, but they wouldn’t be too sorry he was gone.
Why do the leftists miss an “evil rich white man”? Was he a serious donor to left wing causes? What was his appeal to the left wing freaks who usually spend their day hating people like him?
Had this new little gadget called a "mouse" and one could open up applications in a "window".
Apparently, Apple didn't license "windows" and Bill Gates was able to grab them for his system.
RIP Steve.
I thought of Walt Disney also, and Fred Smith of FedEx. Men who had ideas and said, “Let’s do it!”.
I think it stands for ‘siri’.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/?cid=CDM-US-DM-P0010771-CONEDU&cp=em-P0010771-176984&sr=em#video-4s
Steve Jobs was a great man, and a terrific example of the American Dream in action.
I was a long-time Apple hater, but in the last decade or so I’ve made a complete turnaround on that front. As I got older I learned to appreciate simplicity and trouble-free devices. Apple’s attention to aesthetic detail and elegance also add to the experience. I hope Apple has absorbed enough of Steve’s ethos to carry on without him.
RIP Steve Jobs, and prayers for your family.
Jobs hired very smart people. They did the work.
Jobs gets the glory because he was the one behind the microphone demoing the product at the introduction.
That is not saying that he didn’t have a genius for choosing next big thing technologies to support, but once you get an idea and want to go for it, you can’t unless you have the team that can realize that technology for you. In the Silicon Valley, that is the way things work, and have worked since Apple Computer was founded.
Apple would never have come into being without Steve Wozniak. He said “So I was the designer, who could kind of design anything you could conceptualize and then Steve liked to always find ways to turn it into a business”
Their partnership started with a blue box that Woz designed, then progressed to the computer.
Woz also said, “Basically, from the time Steve left Apple to the time Steve came back, he really became an outstanding business manager, able to...trust people who thought well. And not just those who could maybe design products, but those who could design products and have a feel about what to make them a little more special, to have a little more meaning to the users.”
He said, Jobs became an outstanding business manager. He said Jobs learned to trust other people ‘who thought well’ and had a ‘feel’ about how to make products more meaningful to users.
By your comments, I’d say Job’s TEAM did an outstanding job on YOU.
New here. God Bless. RIP.
The Canadian navy invented the mouse in 1952.
Again you self-contradict. What you are describing here is not the activity of “marketing”. You should at least have a coherent line, it’s the least one can ask. Especially today.
Sorry, but you don’t, and I have personal knowledge.
Since I am under NDA, I can’t really prove that to you, without jeopardizing my legal standing with Apple or the company I am with.
So I guess you can continue to spout your mistruths about Steve Jobs & Apple, because I am not allowed to prove what projects I was on with Apple at the company I work for.
So continue on, please, just remember, you’re totally wrong and are being 100% deceptive to your audience. All I can hope for is that your conscience one day hits you hard, and you stop or recant.
Have a nice day.
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