Steve Jobs just died

Debaser82 · Oct 6, 2011

Quote from Hydroblunt:

You sound like an Apple fanboy who completely misses the irony and absurdity of the situation. It's just a toy. Hey, I Love my Playstation 3 & PSPGo, but I am not going to proclaim how the founder of Sony's Games unit or their CEO are an angelic human being that Steve Jobs gets made out to be by the Ipod/Iphone/Ipad sheep.
He was just another big time CEO of a bigtime corporate that produces nothing of true significant value. It's just toys and luxuries. At the expense of Chinese sweatshops, pollution & waste. Get real.

Some of the comments you people post make it seem as if he was a close personal friend of yours. Too funny.

I believe he built his reputation by being a global pioneer, then leaving Aple to see it close to collapse and return to rebuild it with basically his creativity as biggest asset to see it grow to one of the biggest companies in the world.

That's quite something regardless if you like Aple products or not.

etile · Oct 6, 2011

Quote from Hydroblunt:

You sound like an Apple fanboy who completely misses the irony and absurdity of the situation. It's just a toy. Hey, I Love my Playstation 3 & PSPGo, but I am not going to proclaim how the founder of Sony's Games unit or their CEO are an angelic human being that Steve Jobs gets made out to be by the Ipod/Iphone/Ipad sheep.
He was just another big time CEO of a bigtime corporate that produces nothing of true significant value. It's just toys and luxuries. At the expense of Chinese sweatshops, pollution & waste. Get real.

Some of the comments you people post make it seem as if he was a close personal friend of yours. Too funny.

Your statement is foolish. Steve Jobs was a visionary and changed the world. Surprising how industry titans, who have revolutionized the way the world works, i.e., eric schimdt, larry page, bill gates, jeff bezos, mark zuckerberg, michael dell, bloomberg and countless others seem to think contrary.

I may have not known Jobs, but I recognize his accomplishments. And apparently you don't know that VisiCalc on the Apple II is the predecessor to the modern day spreadsheet.

Not to mention that the creator of the ethernet, Bob Metcalfe, also founder of 3Com is grateful for Jobs help

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20116378-37/bob-metcalfe-recalls-steve-jobs-cold-call/

etile · Oct 6, 2011

It's also ironic that a board of daytraders will bash a man who created tangible assets for the world through innovation.

Oh yea, I forgot. The day trader's greatest gift to society is liquidity.

jprad · Oct 6, 2011

Quote from Runningbear:

Well he basically invented the personal computer you're typing on right now.

It was, no doubt, successful. However, Jobs had nothing to do with inventing it. The design was entirely Steve Wozniak's baby.

BTW, the history of the personal computer goes back to before Jobs was even born:

http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml

lassic · Oct 6, 2011

Like Gates, he "exploited" other people's talents

jprad · Oct 6, 2011

Quote from etile:

I may have not known Jobs, but I recognize his accomplishments. And apparently you don't know that VisiCalc on the Apple II is the predecessor to the modern day spreadsheet.

Jobs had nothing to do with Visicalc, Dan Bricklin did.

It also may have come out first on the Apple II, but it was also available for the Commodore, Atari, TRS-80 and the PC very shortly afterwards.

It definately was the first killer application though.

dtan1e · Oct 6, 2011

Quote from lassic:

Like Gates, he "exploited" other people's talents

u make him sound like an opportunist or worse a parasite but i suspect there's some truth to it b/c most excellent work produced in a company is not the hard work or brilliance of the ceo but some other lowly paid employee

lassic · Oct 6, 2011

Quote from dtan1e:

u make him sound like an opportunist or worse a parasite but i suspect there's some truth to it b/c most excellent work produced in a company is not the hard work or brilliance of the ceo but some other lowly paid employee

was going to put a disclaimer of not meant as an insult, but I stand with what I wrote

justrading · Oct 6, 2011

I never had any interest in buying a Mac. Windows PCs and notebooks work fine for me.

I bought an iPod some years back because I love music, and this was a practical way to have all my songs in 1 portable place.

I bought an iPhone 3GS purely because of an app that allows me to manage open stock positions. I still prefer to use a cheap little Nokia for calls and SMS, but along the way I have come to appreciate the iPhone more and more.

A phone, browser, email, PDA, calculator, camera, GPS unit, compass, world clock, portable music player and stock trading platform (not even thinking about other apps), all fitting nicely in the palm of my hand, working so intuitively that there is no need for an owners manual.

What would my parents have made of this had they lived long enough to see and use it? Had I told my father that one day we would have such a gadget, he would surely have laughed and told me that was only possible in Star Trek.

An elegant summation - http://www.economist.com/node/21531529?fsrc=nlw

R.I.P. Steve

jprad · Oct 6, 2011

Quote from Debaser82:

I believe he built his reputation by being a global pioneer, then leaving Aple to see it close to collapse and return to rebuild it with basically his creativity as biggest asset to see it grow to one of the biggest companies in the world.

Actually, he didn't leave, he was fired.

He came back to Apple when they bought the remains of his failed NeXT computer company, the core of which went on to become what we know today as OS X.

Personally, the world is poorer now with him gone. But, let's be real, he was mostly a marketer, not an inventor.