Steve Jobs Dead

[Kathianne]

That's the flash.

[fj1200]

Omg!

[Kathianne]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-apple-ceo-dies/story?id=14383813



By NED POTTER (http://abcnews.go.com/author/ned_potter) (@NedPotterABC (http://twitter.com/NedPotterABC)) and COLLEEN CURRY
Oct. 5, 2011



Steve Jobs, (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-resigns-apple-ceo/story?id=14374908) the mastermind behind Apple (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-apple-stock-future-tim-cook-ceo/story?id=14380214)'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.


Industry watchers called him a master innovator -- perhaps on a par with Thomas Edison -- changing the worlds of computing, recorded music and communications.


In 2004, he beat back an unusual form of pancreatic cancer, and in 2009 he was forced to get a liver transplant. After several years of failing health, Jobs announced on Aug. 24, 2011 that he was stepping down as Apple's chief executive.


"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know," Jobs wrote in his letter of resignation. "Unfortunately, that day has come."

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[Kathianne]

Omg!

while the world will keep on turning, he was a great man, we do seem to underplay the greats today:

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/05/123826622/apple-visionary-steve-jobs-dies-at-56


"It boggles the mind to think of all the things that Steve Jobs did," says Silicon Valley venture capitalist Roger McNamee, who worked with Jobs.


McNamee says that in addition to introducing us to desktop publishing and computer animated movies, Jobs should be credited with creating the first commercially successful computer.


"Any one of those would have qualified him as one of the great executives in American history," McNamee says, "the sum of which put him in a place where no one else has ever been before. To me he is of his era what Thomas Edison was to the beginning of the 20th century."


Jobs was just 21 when he co-founded Apple Computer in his garage in Cupertino, Calif., in 1976. The following year, when Jobs and his partner, Steve Wozniak, released the compact Apple II, most computers were big enough to fill a university basement or came from do-it-yourself kits for hobbyists with soldering irons.
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011/08/26/apple_jobs_8450865_sq.jpg?t=1314405587&s=11 (http://www.npr.org/2011/08/26/139952936/steve-jobs-the-man-at-apples-core) Technology (http://www.npr.org/sections/technology/) Steve Jobs, The Man At Apple's Core (http://www.npr.org/2011/08/26/139952936/steve-jobs-the-man-at-apples-core)


With sound and cutting-edge color graphics, Apple II was the first blockbuster desktop computer. Users could hook it up to their TV sets to play games, and its spreadsheet program made it popular with small businesses.


"It made Apple the biggest computer manufacturer in the nascent computer industry," says Leander Kahney, author of Inside Steve's Brain.


But in 1981, Apple got its first taste of serious competition, when IBM released its own personal computer. IBM had the advantage of a well-known, trusted name, and Jobs — a California boy — loathed the kind of conformist East Coast culture it represented.


So he countered with the Macintosh, the first computer to feature a mouse, pull-down menus and icons — thus eliminating the command-line interface.


"Jobs' idea was that we'll make it easy enough that anybody can do it ... a grandmother, a kid, people who don't have any experience," Kahney says. The Mac was an example of the kind of product that would come to define Jobs' entire career: easy-to-use computers.


That's the message Jobs sent to millions when he released the Mac in 1984. In an ad that aired once (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8) during the Super Bowl, a woman dressed in brightly colored shorts runs into a room of gray-looking people and throws a sledgehammer at a screen where Big Brother — read IBM — is talking. The minute-long reference to George Orwell's 1984 became one of the most famous television commercials of all time.
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011/09/21/apple_jobs_8451233_custom.jpg?t=1316633360&s=15 Enlarge Paul Sakuma/AP Jobs leans on the new Macintosh personal computer following a shareholder's meeting in Cupertino, Ca., in 1984.

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011/09/21/apple_jobs_8451233_custom.jpg?t=1316633360&s=51
Paul Sakuma/AP Jobs leans on the new Macintosh personal computer following a shareholder's meeting in Cupertino, Ca., in 1984.




It also illustrated Jobs' belief that computers were tools to unleash human creativity. In an interview for the 1996 PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds, Jobs said, "Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world."
In many ways Jobs was the poet of the computer world. He'd gone to India and become a Buddhist. He took LSD and believed it had opened his mind to new ways of thinking.
But Jobs' iconoclastic ideals did not always make him easy to work with...



lots of stuff about how he was pushed out then:


In 1998, as interim CEO of Apple, Jobs introduced the iMac and once again helped remake the computer industry. According to venture capitalist McNamee, the iMac was the first computer made to harness the creative potential of the Internet.


"The iMac reflected the transition of consumers from passive consumption of content to active creation of entertainment," McNamee says. "People could write their own blogs, make their own digital photographs and make their own movies. Apple made all the tools to make that easy and they did at a time when Microsoft just wasn't paying attention."


Three years after the iMac, Jobs announced Apple's expansion into the music industry with a breakthrough MP3 player — the iPod.


"This is not a speculative market," he said as he introduced the iPod in 2001. "It's a part of everyone's life. It's a very large target market all around the world."


The iPod was a classic Jobs product — easy to use and nice to look at. Apple sold tens of millions of iPods, and the iTunes store became the No. 1 music retailer.


Six years later, Apple released the iPhone — a device whose elegance and user friendliness blew other phone/music players out of the water.


In 2010, Apple created yet another groundbreaking device with the introduction of the iPad. With its color touch-screen, the tablet gave users the ability to surf the Web, send e-mail, watch videos and read e-books.


Book publishers weren't the only ones to embrace the new tablet. A host of magazines, newspapers and broadcast news organizations, including The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal and NPR, created iPad-specific apps that helped showcase stories — and images — in a tabloid-style layout.


And in January 2011, Apple reached a milestone by surpassing 10 billion downloads from its App Store — a sign of just how popular the company's devices have become with consumers.


"Simplifying complexity is not simple," says Susan Rockrise, a creative director who worked with Jobs. "It is the greatest, greatest gift to have someone who has Steve's capabilities as an editor and a product designer edit the crap away so that you can focus on what you want to do."


Rockrise believes Jobs touched pretty much anyone who has ever clicked a mouse, sent a photo over the Internet, published a book from a home computer or enjoyed portable music or a computer-animated movie.


She says they all have Jobs to thank for making it happen...

[ConHog]

a real genius , on par with Edison. I think that is without a doubt true.

[Noir]

RIP Steve ):

iPod, iPhone, iPad, iMac, Air...the list goes on...

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j176/jonathan-mcc/photo-1500.png

[Kathianne]

a real genius , on par with Edison. I think that is without a doubt true.

Yep, Edison and Franklin is the company he's with.

[Kathianne]

Back a few months:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-26/how-steve-jobs-made-business-cool-again-1981-virginia-postrel.html


Postrel: How Steve Jobs Made Business Cool Again <cite class="byline"> By Virginia Postrel - Aug 26, 2011 </cite>
To understand the cultural significance of Steve Jobs (http://topics.bloomberg.com/steve-jobs/), you have to go back in time: to before the iPad or iPhone or iTunes, before Apple Inc.’s comeback products made candy-colored plastics and iAnything cool, before Jobs got kicked out of Apple, even before the Macintosh hurled a sledgehammer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8) at Big Brother (http://topics.bloomberg.com/big-brother/).


It’s 1981. Most people have never heard of Silicon Valley. The country’s most famous businessman is Lee Iacocca, the head of Chrysler Corp. He’s famous because in 1979 he engineered a government bailout -- loan guarantees -- that saved the company. He’s also famous because, unlike his peers, Iacocca is colorful. He seems to believe in what he’s doing.


In 1981, business executives aren’t known for either personality or passion. The general public sees business as a boring, impersonal, possibly suspect activity. Its significance seems purely financial.


“Businessmen,” Tom Wolfe tells the Wall Street Journal, “no longer have the conviction that what they’re doing is exciting and glamorous, which is, I guess, another way of saying intrinsically worthwhile.”


That was all about to change.


In the 1980s, entrepreneurs became heroes, celebrities and role models. The Apple whiz kids, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, were the new face of business.


Money was, of course, part of the appeal -- millionaires in their 20s! -- but there was much more to it than that. The aspirations for pleasure and self-expression that the sociologist Daniel Bell had condemned as the “cultural contradictions of capitalism” turned out to be its fuel. ...

[Trinity]

I was at bike night with my husband when I happen to check my email and got the breaking news story....my mouth about hit the ground, and my husband says whats wrong? I said Steve Jobs died. He said who? I said seriously??!! are you kidding me??!!:slap: He says no who is he? I said ummm apple computers, Macintosh, ipod, pixar.......he then says oh ok I know who he is now....

[Kathianne]

Edison & Franklin:

http://pajamasmedia.com/vodkapundit/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-rip/?singlepage=true


Steve Jobs: RIP (http://pajamasmedia.com/vodkapundit/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-rip/) October 5, 2011 - 6:10 pm - by Stephen Green (http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/author/stephengreen/)





The following appears as it did when I first wrote it on August 25, 2011 — the day Steve Jobs announced he was leaving his position as CEO of Apple, Inc. I feared then that only the final decline of his health would keep him from the company he founded and obviously loved. Jobs has died, just one day after his heir, Tim Cook, unveiled the iPhone 4S. His legacy is complete.



Even most successful entrepreneurs do not change an entire industry. But that’s exactly what Steve Jobs did to personal computing — three times.

http://pajamasmedia.com/vodkapundit/files/2011/08/Old-Apple-Logo-180x200.pngWith the Apple II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series), Jobs made personal computers useful. In the mid-Seventies, home computers were build-it-yourself hobby boxes, useful only to the nerdiest nerds. By the time I entered middle school in 1981 there was an entire lab filled with Apple II Plus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_Plus) machines, and lots of fun software to run on them. The first computer “clone” wasn’t Compaq’s copy of the IBM PC — it was a clone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_II_clones) of the Apple II. An industry was born.


Three years later Jobs made the personal computer approachable with the Macintosh. He didn’t invent the GUI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface) or the WIMP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_%28computing%29) metaphor but he and his team made them useable and affordable. What most computer users took for granted in 1995 was deemed a “toy” by many critics when the first Mac arrived in 1984.


And last year, Jobs made the personal computer ubiquitous with the iPad. This third revolution is only beginning, yet still many critics deride this “toy (http://answerguy.com/2011/08/23/hp-kills-touchpad-ipad-tools-versus-toys/)” as a “media consumption device (http://wiredpen.com/2010/01/28/ipad-a-consumption-device/).” I do most of my photo editing on my fat, slow, first-generation iPad — and I’m outlining a novel on it, too.

Others use it to create music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhGdbulmfzA&feature=related), paintings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OLP4nbAVA4) and video (http://mashable.com/2011/06/23/music-video-on-ipad/). That’s some “consumption” going on.

In the meantime, Jobs also:


• Created the first “event (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8)” Super Bowl ad
• Reinvented the cell phone
• Revitalized and reinvented movie animation with Pixar
• Brought low the old, thieving record labels
• Started from scratch the largest music retailer
• Changed the way people buy, keep, travel with, and listen to music
• Created a physical retailing empire with greater profits-per-square-foot than Tiffany’s
• Apple is currently making people (and the competition (http://asia.cnet.com/crave/intel-sets-aside-us300-million-to-drive-ultrabooks-62210344.htm)) rethink the laptop computer with its diskless MacBook Air


Oh, and Jobs by-the-way took the helm of a computer company that was just months away from bankruptcy and turned it into the world’s most profitable and valuable computer maker, consumer electronics firm, and cell phone manufacturer.
http://pajamasmedia.com/vodkapundit/files/2011/08/Current-Apple-Logo-163x200.jpgGood lord. Any one of these many accomplishments, and Jobs would be hailed as a titan of industry. You may or may not be an “Apple person,” but the way you work, play and compute have all been deeply effected by the man in the black, mock-neck sweater. From your Windows 7 all-in-one computer (http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_can_series.do?storeName=computer_store&category=desktops&a1=Category&v1=All-in-One+PCs&series_name=200q_series&jumpid=in_R329_prodexp/hhoslp/psg/desktops/All-in-One_PCs/200q_series), to your Acer Timeline (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Acer-America-Expands-Business-iw-2011821175.html?x=0) ultra-lightweight laptop, to your SanDisk MP3 player (http://www.sandisk.com/consumer-products/music-player), to your Android smartphone (http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/7/12/samsung-wants-apple-lawyers-booted-copy-case/) or your Samsung tablet (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/aaa17c72-cf1d-11e0-86c5-00144feabdc0.html) — none of them are made by Apple and all of them adhere to the vision of Steve Jobs.


That’s an astounding legacy, unparalleled except perhaps for Henry Ford.


Poor health is certainly what prompted Jobs to resign yesterday as CEO of Apple, Inc. Nobody knows how long he’ll have to enjoy his retirement — but he’s earned it like no one else has.
So, thanks, Steve, for all the insanely great stuff. Thanks also for leaving Apple in such capable hands. But thank you most of all for setting an example that never failed to inspire.


ONE MORE THING: I’m adding this on the day of Jobs’s passing, too. Three days ago, industry analyst Horace Dediu (http://www.asymco.com/2011/10/02/ios-vs-microsoft-comparing-the-bottom-lines/) crunched some very serious numbers. Since 2007, iOS has gone on to become a bigger profit center than all of Microsoft.


That is, in the space of four years, Apple created, from scratch, something more valuable than Microsoft’s entire product line. And they did it with just two devices, the iPhone and the iPad.
Now that’s a legacy.
Rest well, Steve.

[Noir]

This is maybe gonna sound random, but, the topic title is a bit blunt lol something more along the lines of 'Steve jobs passes away' would seem a bit more pleasant than 'steve jobs dead'...

[Kathianne]

This is maybe gonna sound random, but, the topic title is a bit blunt lol something more along the lines of 'Steve jobs passes away' would seem a bit more pleasant than 'steve jobs dead'...

Same thing. I'm all for rhetoric but when it comes down to the end, it's sad and definite.

[avatar4321]

Im sorry for the world's loss despite the fact that i dont use any of his products.

[fj1200]

Im sorry for the world's loss despite the fact that i dont use any of his products.

But you've probably benefited from his advancements/improvements.

[logroller]

Im sorry for the world's loss despite the fact that i dont use any of his products.
His legacy extends beyond his products. Guess who brought the graphical user interface (e.g. windows) to consumer computers? The fact you are posting indicates you have indeed benefited from his prescient gift of delivering what we didn't know we wanted?:coffee:

[logroller]

a real genius , on par with Edison. I think that is without a doubt true.


I'd put him above Edison. Like Edison, Jobs stayed true to his vision; but unlike Edison, (who vehemently opposed Tesla's AC system over his DC), when his ideas were challenged (mostly over price-point in Jobs' case), his core ideals prevailed as technology developed. Not to say they're not in the same class, as Edison's contributions live on to this day; but as a purpose-driven visionary, Jobs ranks higher IMO.

On Edison's passing, Tesla had this to say--

He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene. [...] His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90% of the labour. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense.[48] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison#cite_note-47)

—Nikola Tesla

I doubt Jobs will receive such a scathing eulogy.

[logroller]

I'd put him above Edison. Like Edison, Jobs stayed true to his vision; but unlike Edison, (who vehemently opposed Tesla's AC system over his DC), when his ideas were challenged (mostly over price-point in Jobs' case), his core ideals prevailed as technology developed. Not to say they're not in the same class, as Edison's contributions live on to this day; but as a purpose-driven visionary, Jobs ranks higher IMO.

On Edison's passing, Tesla had this to say--

I doubt Jobs will receive such a scathing eulogy.

I stand corrected.:laugh:

2517
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[Gaffer]

No matter who you are or what you do, there's always somebody that doesn't like you.

[Zona]

RIP Steve ):

iPod, iPhone, iPad, iMac, Air...the list goes on...

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j176/jonathan-mcc/photo-1500.png

A real visionary. He really was. I liked how he tried to keep his personal life to himself.

A true Gentleman.

[sundaydriver]

In the 70's my Dad bought the defunct former Edison Portland Cement Plant in New Jersey to use for a new business. From this he developed quite an interest in Edison and his work in many fields and former employees that worked with Edison at different facilities would come by to talk with Dad and recount happenings, some gave him some really interesting artifacts from Edisons work.

Dad became quite the Edison historian and often gave talk and presentations on Edison to many groups and schools. Edison was in to many areas of science and has 1093 patents. The phonograph, the first movie filmed, and chemistry still used today.

Visionaries both.

[ConHog]

In the 70's my Dad bought the defunct former Edison Portland Cement Plant in New Jersey to use for a new business. From this he developed quite an interest in Edison and his work in many fields and former employees that worked with Edison at different facilities would come by to talk with Dad and recount happenings, some gave him some really interesting artifacts from Edisons work.

Dad became quite the Edison historian and often gave talk and presentations on Edison to many groups and schools. Edison was in to many areas of science and has 1093 patents. The phonograph, the first movie filmed, and chemistry still used today.

Visionaries both.


I think a lot of people forget just how much Edison contributed to society. Let's look at the big one of each person. Lightbulb vs home computer. Hard to tell which benefited society more. And actually neither one invented their "invention" rather each simply perfected them.

[red states rule]

RIP


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