12 Responses to “RIP Steve Jobs”

1. gs Says:
   October 5th, 2011 at 9:35 pm

   Dirge without Music

2. Don Carlos Says:
   October 5th, 2011 at 9:43 pm

   He was a technologically brilliant and marvelously successful visionarary, but we really know next to nothing about him personally. Heck, we do not now know why he died.

3. Bernard Says:
   October 5th, 2011 at 10:34 pm

   Thank you Steve!

4. J.J. formerly Jimmy J. Says:
   October 5th, 2011 at 10:52 pm

   Don Carlos,
   It was cancer.

   He was not only brilliant and a visionary, but a man who had an interesting view of technology.
   Jobs: “This stuff doesn’t change the world. It really doesn’t,” he said about technology in a Wired magazine interview, eight years before he was diagnosed with cancer. “I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much — if at all.”

   Many of us might disagree, but in the bigger picture I think he got it about right.

   RIP Steve Jobs.

5. texexec Says:
   October 5th, 2011 at 11:15 pm

   He was extremely creative but he also recognized a good thing when he saw it and gladly adopted it.

   Case in point: This whole business of clicking icons to pull up files or start programs was incorporated into the first Mac after Jobs visited Xerox Data Systems and saw that kind of thing in action. I saw the same demo at the U. of Texas Law School long before anyone ever heard of Apple.

6. Ben David Says:
   October 6th, 2011 at 5:58 am

   As a baby he was put up for adoption by a pregnant college coed.

   Today – she would have aborted him.

7. Daniel Says:
   October 6th, 2011 at 6:57 am

   … and Xerox never became the Apple it was because it took people like Steve Jobs to understand the implications of such technology and were able to drive it to market and make a fortune on it.

   I never owned a Lisa or a Mac or an Apple or an iPod, or Nano, or iPad or iPhone or anything that Apple ever made. But a driven genius is still capable of heavily influencing how I do everything in my work and personal life even though I never bought one of his products.

   The guy was brilliant and has done a lot for us, way beyond what he even thought.

8. texexec Says:
   October 6th, 2011 at 9:04 am

   “… and Xerox never became the Apple it was because it took people like Steve Jobs to understand the implications of such technology and were able to drive it to market and make a fortune on it.”

   I agree. I think his true genius was recognizing a good technology, making it easy to use, and promoting it.

9. ziontruth Says:
   October 6th, 2011 at 9:56 am

   A tribute to Steve Job for so many things:

   For bringing computers to people outside the mainframe room. (Apple II)

   For making computers easy to use for everyone. (Macintosh and the popularization of the graphical user interface.)

   For wedding computers to art. (Macintosh, with Adobe’s print rendering technology, and then Pixar.)

   For giving a friendly external face to Unix, hitherto known only for its internal excellence. (Nextstep, then its derivative OS X.) (Linux user here is personally grateful.)

   For kicking off the digital media revolution with a highly usable player. (IPod.)

   For kindling (no pun intended) the handheld and tablet scene with a second try after a first failed attempt. (Newton flopped, but the IPad really took off.)

   For changing the world from 1977 to now, into one where it’s impossible to imagine life without computers.

   Thank you, Steve. Enjoy your Return To Sky, the burden you Carried having been CLeared, now that the whole world is LoaDed with the Accumulation of your achievements. (A tribute to the Apple II; though I never used that computer, I know its microprocessor instruction set from the C64.)

10. JaneLK Says:
    October 6th, 2011 at 12:16 pm

    To add to ziontruth – Macintosh’s innovations in every aspect of the recording industry and digital music – production – engineering – sound design – recording in general – are untouched.

    RIP Steve Jobs

11. Artfldgr Says:
    October 6th, 2011 at 1:02 pm

    Jobs was a ‘face’, Woz had all the real brains…
    Myrvold is similar to Gates…

12. Francesca Says:
    October 6th, 2011 at 1:55 pm

    I appreciate Steve Jobs not only for all the great technology, but also for the elegant design of that technology. He was a man to whom function and aesthetics were equally important. The minimalism and elegance of Apple products make them a joy to use.

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