Steve Jobs has Passed Away!? (UPDATED)

[Soggy Toast]

Jobs was no revolutionary. He was good at marketing, I'll give him that, but the man never had an original thought.

He invented the iPod!

 

[MolotoK]

Yeah, many other people passed away too. Just because he is famous doesn't mean I should care for him more than anyone else.

Go without your PC, your MP3 Player, Your tablet (if you had one) and remove all those from your life. That is what would have happened in Steve Jobs didn't exist.

Okay, I am being a little over-dramatic however he was a revolutionary. Most of the things were thought of by him. They were perfected again and again by him. Others could have done it, however who knows. It could have taken years longer.

You do realize apple didn't do ANY of those first. Just slapped a shiny logo on it and called it "magical".

OT: I personally don't really care. He's like everyone else but he's rich and has fanboys. He's like the 108 other people that died while I was typing this. But he owns a mansion so I guess he's better right?

The Apple 1 can be considered the first personal computer. That's a pretty significant first.
Bringing the GUI to market wasn't just a case of slapping their own logo on an existing product either (like Microsoft did with their DOS - they bought that from somebody else and rebranded it). Apple Macintosh was an insanely good hardware and software combination for 1984.
The touchscreen smartphone was invented by Apple, the current definition of tablet (multitouch, light, $500 or less, phone processor and phone OS) was invented by Apple....

Don't forget that Steve Jobs was also responsible for Pixar and NeXT Computer.

Steve Jobs turned a lot of things he touched into gold. You just can't deny that.

 

[erztez]

Jobs was no revolutionary. He was good at marketing, I'll give him that, but the man never had an original thought.

He invented the iPod!

For the sake of my sanity I choose to believe that you are joking.
If anyone "invented" the iPod, it was Jon Rubinstein, Jobs just gave a general order.

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

His influence on technology and media, as an innovative, fundamental, driving force, has changed the way we interact, consume, create and so much more. His passion for his work will resonate through the ages, and be seen for lifetimes. Without him, so much of the landscape of media and technology, both on a direct user end, and a market side, would be radically different. I was by no stretch of the imagination one of Apples biggest fans, in fact in it's later years, I was and am quite derisive of the likes of the macbook pro, considering them nigh of veblen good's, but I would be ignorant to dismiss what the man behind the company meant to all of us here today.

I put to you, without the NeXT, what would have become of the internet?

Rest in Awesome, Steve.

My thought's go to his wife and children; I wish them strength, support and solace in this difficult time.

 

[BanicRhys]

Not a surprise. I remember reading that it said he had aids on wikileaks or something.

But honestly, I don't really care.

 

[Sewer Rat]

Must... resist... urge... to make... new version joke...
In all seriousness though, even though I did not agree with his business practices or his view of "innovation", he was still an important figure of this century and the last. RIP Mr. Jobs.

 

[gabe12301]

Yeah, many other people passed away too. Just because he is famous doesn't mean I should care for him more than anyone else.

Go without your PC, your MP3 Player, Your tablet (if you had one) and remove all those from your life. That is what would have happened in Steve Jobs didn't exist.

Okay, I am being a little over-dramatic however he was a revolutionary. Most of the things were thought of by him. They were perfected again and again by him. Others could have done it, however who knows. It could have taken years longer.

You do realize apple didn't do ANY of those first. Just slapped a shiny logo on it and called it "magical".

OT: I personally don't really care. He's like everyone else but he's rich and has fanboys. He's like the 108 other people that died while I was typing this. But he owns a mansion so I guess he's better right?

Because being the first person to distribute a computer with a graphical interface = he just slapped a logo on it and called it a day, right? As much as you want to deny it, he is one of the most important people in the history of technology, and he will be remembered as such for a long, long time.

Google Jef Raskin he had way more to do with that than Steve.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

I can't necessarily call myself an Apple supporter per se, but the things he did for a lot of people are inspiring. RIP Steve.

 

[erztez]

Been a long, LONG time since I've seen someone this jealous of another people. Lumping all 338 patents into your "trademarking the letter i" is hysterical. Now make sure to quote me and cry about a fallacy argument kiddo.

Ok then, should I take them 1 by 1?
Or can I just take the first five?

1: 8,032,843: User interface for providing consolidation and access: Methods and systems for providing graphical user interfaces are described. To provide greater access and consolidation to frequently used items in the graphical user interface, a userbar is established which includes a plurality of item representations. To permit a greater number of items to reside in the userbar, a magnification function can be provided which magnifies items within the userbar when they are proximate the cursor associated with the graphical user interface.

Note, this was filed in 2009...You call that an INVENTION? I've been using freeware plugins like that for about 5 years...

2: D645,860: Computing device: Can't even find out what it's supposed to BE, much less how "inventive" it actually is.

3: D645,037: Handheld portable computing device: See above

4: D644,218: Electronic device with cover: Rofl, no other comment.

5: D643,403: Media player: oh c'mon



You know, I really wanted to do at least a few more, but then I stared contemplating taking out the gun and joining Steve, so, please forgive my lack of motivation.

 

[Soggy Toast]

Jobs was no revolutionary. He was good at marketing, I'll give him that, but the man never had an original thought.

He invented the iPod!

For the sake of my sanity I choose to believe that you are joking.
If anyone "invented" the iPod, it was Jon Rubinstein, Jobs just gave a general order.

You honestly thought that I meant that Jobs SINGLE-HANDEDLY made the iPod?

 

[skennedy929]

Jobs was among a tiny handful of people who saw any future in personal computers. He was the only one with the vision to see it as a tool for creation and entertainment.

He is like the Henry Ford of the computing industry. He didn't invent the first one, but he made the best one that everybody everywhere could own.

In these times of economic strife, Steve Jobs was at the helm of a luxury item company that passed Exxon Mobil in overall worth.

Fucking visionary doesn't begin to describe the man. Everything we do now with any computing device of any kind has its roots in Steve Jobs. He shaped the history of the world.

 

[erztez]

Jobs was no revolutionary. He was good at marketing, I'll give him that, but the man never had an original thought.

He invented the iPod!

For the sake of my sanity I choose to believe that you are joking.
If anyone "invented" the iPod, it was Jon Rubinstein, Jobs just gave a general order.

You honestly thought that I meant that Jobs SINGLE-HANDEDLY made the iPod?

I've met Apple fanboys. Nuff said.
In any case, I apologize for slotting you into that category.
However, my point stands. Jobs didn't invent the iPod. He just ordered some guys to "go make up something that we can sell to the idiots out there for 5 times what it's worth".

 

[keinechance]

A human being died.

That is always tragic.

 

[zarix2311]

Oh well, that's too bad. I wasn't really a apple user though so not a tragic story for me.

 

[erztez]

Jobs took the GUI OS that we all take for granted nowadays to market. fact. and he did not in any way, as you stated before, "steal" it.

he was however, as is always the case in a technological field, standing on the shoulders of those before him but it took Microsoft 25 years to catch up (placing that point at the release of windows 7 finally measuring up to its Mac equivalent)

as for you flippant "trademark the letter "i"" line well that's one then eh?..out of 338...

really count "proving your points" ?

that's...interesting...

simple fact is i own Silicon Valley history books written well before Job returned to Apple and the release of "i" anything and even they cite him as one of the most important and transformative people involved in the birth of the industry.

his relationship and rivalry with Gates alone is the stuff of near legend...

so you don't like him ? i get that. but all i gave you in that post was facts.
an honourable man would acknowledge them and see no need to subvert their use in order to express and opinion.

in the end (and this goes for the "why should i care" people too) it comes down to what you leave behind.

most of us leave absolutely nothing.

Mr Jobs left us a lot.

Actually, OSX was a piece of crap when it was released and it still is today. Granted, it's a mighty PRETTY piece of buggy crap, but it's still crap. The way in which this is most visible is that Windows, a crappy system if there ever was one, is still BETTER. And HAS been better for a while. It doesn't look as pretty, but it actually WORKS, and doesn't need proprietary hardware to run.

See my point above about his 338 "inventions". Read the sources, not just the wiki page.

The only thing Jobs left behind is a cult of idiots who will buy anything with a lower case "i" in front of it.
As achievements go, meh.

 

[erztez]

A human being died.

That is always tragic.

Not REALLY, is it?

Jobs aside, surely we can agree that some deaths are either necessary or funny as hell?

 

[Ghengis John]

whether you like it or not, Mr Jobs left us a lot.

He did not leave us a lot. We bought it.

 

[Jegsimmons]

So much for "an apple a day keeps the doctor away".

...sorry, too soon?

And now, it's TASTELESS JOKE TIME!

What did one unemployed cancer cell say to the other?
Let's go get Jobs!

Now i dont feel as bad for these

guess he ate a bad apple......

Did the doctors not download the right app?

Huh, i guess Mac Users CAN get a virus!


Hey i make fun of ALL celebrities who die, and im not stopping now.
(but in all seriousness, he was a very innovative person who revolutionized computers and deserved a longer life)