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Apple CEO Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs On Fifth Anniversary of His Death (macrumors.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: As he has done over the past four years, Apple CEO Tim Cook has shared a tribute to the late Steve Jobs, touching on the importance of remembering the Apple co-founder and former CEO today, which marks the fifth anniversary of his death on October 5, 2011. In previous years, Apple also updated its website to remember Jobs, creating a two-minute slideshow of his various keynote presentations and most famous audio clips on the one year anniversary of his death. In the days following his passing, Apple started posting "Remembering Steve" comments from fans on its website. The company noted that well over one million submissions came in for the project, all from well-wishing fans in the wake of Jobs' losing battle with pancreatic cancer. "'Most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.' Remembering Steve and the many ways he changed our world," tweeted Apple CEO Tim Cook with a picture of Jobs. In remembrance of Jobs, Recode has compiled several of Steve Job's best interviews conducted at the D: All Things Digital conference. You can watch Recode's reflection video directly on YouTube here.
It was his own fault.
http://gawker.com/5849543/harv...
The same company that released products when they were done, not on some yearly schedule (this applies to hardware and software). The same company that actually cared about GUI design, so their stuff was obvious and easy to use and not filled with ultra thin fonts and neon vomit. The same company who cared about professionals, and generally had a usable high end workstation available... etc.
The list goes on and on.
I think Apple would do good to remember some of the things Jobs did to made them a great company, because "Apple according to Tim cook" isn't working out that well. They're going to be in deep shit the moment the inertia wears off and they manage to alienate the zealots too, which won't take more than a few years considering the train wreck of products and services TC has left in his wake.
While Jobs was alive I would comment to my tech friends that his influence on Apple and the industry was overstated. Five years after his death I've come to realize his influence was understated. We need someone like Jobs - not just to think big - but to be the person at the top who wont accept mediocrity and will drive thousands of employees to bring great ideas to the market.
Hopefully the rabid fanbois can handle a little truth. The truth is, Steve Jobs was a real asshole
I only met SJ one time: In 1978, when he was at the Apple Booth at a trade show in Chicago. I was working at a small I dependent computer store at the time. We sold Apple ][s, as well as S-100 bus systems by Polymorphic and Vector Graphics, plus proprietary x86 systems by Compucolor and a company called DTC, that had a black on paperwhite monitor..
Anyway, I walked up to Jobs and introduced myself and shook his hand. What I received in return was a withering glare and immediate dismissal. I got the feeling that Jobs wanted to go wash the "common man" off his hand...
So although I admire Jobs for his obvious talents and persistence-of-vision, I am under no illusions of hero-worship of Steve Jobs, the man.
Jef Raskin, OTOH, enthusiastically grabbed me by the collar (he didn't know me from Adam!), and showed me in detail what was doubtless confidential documentation on an upcoming version of Apple DOS, which hadn't even been released yet...
The sales part reminds me of the Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates. Epic Rap Battles of History (headphones if at work)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Jobs reminds me of the what the band Kansas sings: "nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky. It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy" Good thing too. These people are psychopaths, not innovators.
Really, was that really necessary?
But on the other hand, would SJ have let the Mac Pro languish for so many years in a row?
But on the other hand, would SJ have let the Mac Pro languish for so many years in a row?
Unknown; since it was he that killed the XServe.
Happy Anniversary Steve!
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Don't forget It!
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
The only product category you can really credit to SJ was the GUI. He didn't invent it, but his was the first commercial success. That was 30 years ago.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs On Fifth Anniversary of His Death
That makes it sound like he'd completely forgotten him up until now.
"October 5th... now why does that ring a bell?"
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
That's happy Zombie Steve day, you heretic!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You mean the same Steve Jobs that let the PowerMac towers wither on the branch for 18 months without an upgrade?
Yes.
Reeses
... how Jobs was so critical about not making shit products. No it's not all shit, they have a lot of momentum so it can't be, but generally focus has shifted, fragmentation has occurred just like before, and trying to sell lots of shit to lots of people with the latest flashy shiny features is more important that reliability and thoughtful design. It's a gradual shift back to short term thinking profit driven design.
"Apple also updated its website to remember Jobs, creating a two-minute slideshow of his various keynote presentations and most famous audio clips on the one year anniversary of his death."
So we are remembering the one year anniversary? The fourth aniversary of the one year anniversary ....... right? Also let us celebrate the third anniversary of the second anniversary, because by a happy chance that is today as well.
That's almost as long ago as the last update to their high end Mac Pro.
Of course I jest, the Mac Pro is only about 3 years old.
I don't get why people think Steve Jobs is so great. It's not like he found the cure for cancer or something.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs On Fifth Anniversary of His Death
"Heh, check out this picture. It's a turtle wearing a turtleneck. Say, that reminds me of that Steve guy who used to work here. Remember him? He was my boss for a while? Sure you do, he was that guy who used to say all these crazy things, and from time to time he would present what were really pretty ordinary tech advances as earthshaking paradigm shifts of breathtaking ingenuity? Oh, and he used to eat just fruit. Not just vegetables or just plants, but just fruit. They actually put me in charge of supplying him with fruit a few years ago. Yeah, I was supposed to drop off a crate full of fruit in front of his office once a week. I don't remember ever actually doing it, though...
Hm, I wonder what happened to that guy?"
I find it interesting that someone found it necessary to mod the parent Flamebait, considering that it's written by Apple cheerleader/apologist-in-chief on /. It's actually an interesting anecdote, and shows, if taken on its own merit, that our friend macs4all does have some capacity for objective judgment. Kudos to you, sir, and try to apply that objectivity to discussions of Apple's products; you'd come across as less of a foaming-at-the-mouth fanboy.
Thanks for the props, man! You seem to have alerted some mods to change that "Flamebait" to "+4 Interesting"!!! (watch now as the Haters mod it back...)
But as you can see from that Anecdote, I have been an Apple-follower and I would guess, fan (not "fanboi" as some assert), for quite a long time (actually, since 1976); and so have a different (I would say "deeper") perspective on what Apple is, and isn't, and what their underlying motives are likely to be. I don't know how to phrase that to sound less conceited; but that is the truth.
I would guess that most of the over-the-top attacks come from folks that simply don't have that depth of experience with Apple and its products, so I shouldn't let their words bother me; but I am human, so they do.
So, I guess some of my explanations come off sounding like "excuses", and after hours of reading post-after-post ascribing the most unbelievably vile and despicable motivations for literally anything Apple does (for example, the Slashdotters that actually found fault in Tim Cook's recent comments on Encryption, and in this Remembrance of Jobs), and after being "punish-modded" THREE separate times from "Excellent" to "Poor" Karma over the course of 24 hours by those same "judges", most of whom haven't gotten the message that "-1 Disagree" is not really supposed to be a thing, I do tend to get somewhat "strident" (i.e. "foaming at the mouth") in my rebuttal at times.
Most of the people that criticise Apple have never actually owned any Apple products and so haven't a clue about their qualities.
As to Jobs, I believe it's exactly the same people that give Elon Musk a hard time too. There's something about a commercially successful visionary that really annoys them.
Sure Steve Jobs personally was an perfectionist to the point of being an asshole. But then so is Linus Torvalds, but most here give him a pass. Whilst it's an ugly characteristic, in both cases it may be a key ingredient of their success.
Most of the people that criticise Apple have never actually owned any Apple products and so haven't a clue about their qualities.
As to Jobs, I believe it's exactly the same people that give Elon Musk a hard time too. There's something about a commercially successful visionary that really annoys them.
Sure Steve Jobs personally was an perfectionist to the point of being an asshole. But then so is Linus Torvalds, but most here give him a pass. Whilst it's an ugly characteristic, in both cases it may be a key ingredient of their success.
I agree with everything you said, wholeheartedly.
I don't dislike Apple products, I think they're generally very slick and with very visually appealing and stylish UIs. I had an iPad Air for awhile, which was admittedly given to me. I used it for a while, and sold it off about a year later, because I just wasn't using it anymore. It was an extremely nice piece of hardware, very good battery life, fantastic screen, very slick UI. But it just felt so limiting and constrained, tablets in general are a compromised middle ground between smartphones and actual laptops/desktops. They feel limited in a way my Chromebook doesn't.
What I mostly dislike are some of the business decisions made by Apple, such as making the Macbooks borderline impossible to service or upgrade yourself, and the entire "walled garden" approach. I also seriously disliked Steve Jobs' personality, and I hate the "think different, therefore better than you" true believer Mac fanatics.
Could I be perfectly happy using a Mac? Well yeah, as long as I can have Chrome, some decent media players and a select handful of emulators and games, I could be happy on just about any OS. The necessary hardware is way too expensive and limited, though.
Eat the rich.