Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple, CEO of Pixar, driving force behind the popularization of the Mac, of iTunes and iPods, of Apple Retail, of the iPhone and iPad, and of Apple itself, passed away on October 5, 2011.
A temperamental, triumphant, fallible, transcendent technologist and artist, his taste, sensibility, and the sheer force and audacity of his vision more than dented our universe — it shaped our culture and our lives, and helped empower us to dent universes all our own.
You shook the world, Steve, and it was shaken at your passing. But technology goes on. Art goes on. Apple goes on. We're lessened without you, but what you left behind enables us to achieve so much more.
Thank you.
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Steve Jobs
Awesome Man. R.I.P
Awesome CEO, flawed human being.
Flawed human being.....just like all the rest of us imperfect humanoids
Though I do not own any Apple Products, the tech world can't thank him enough. Two people lead the digital revolution: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. No one in the computer field comes close to their genius and innovations.
May he continue to rest in peace.
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Actually Bill Gates didn't lead the digital revolution; he consistently trailed it. He was a smart businessman who had the acumen to buy an operating system from someone else and then made billions from working hard on licensing. No small feat. In contrast, Jobs recognized the importance of GUI while Gates was focused on improving the DOS that he bought. Jobs and Apple consistently brought transformational products to the masses,such as iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad, etc. Gates famously was late in recognizing the Internet revolution, and infamously in failing to understand that mobile would become transcendent. "Genius" and "innovator" are not two words commonly associated with Gates or Microsoft, or for someone who whiffs on envisioning the impact of mobile. None of that makes Gates a bad guy or Microsoft a bad company. They have both been very successful. .But Gates' good timing and great business sense doesn't put him anywhere near the same league as Steve Jobs in leading the digital revolution.
R.I.P. Steve Jobs, no one can deny how your ideas changed the world of technology.
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It's hard to believe 5 years have gone by already. I lost my father on this day 3 years ago. RIP Steve and Pappy.
A true visionary, R.I.P Steve Jobs.
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Why don't you just dig him up & blow his corpse, while you're at it?
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Sadly, with all his ideas and innovations, he couldn't make people like you less rude or ignorant as you just proved. The village is empty because their ***** is here showing his intelligence.
You took the moral high road. How noble. Aren't you just the self-declared winner?
Maybe you can correct my spelling or grammar in the future and keep the dynasty alive.
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Maybe just a lesson in manners is what you need.
Lesson 1. If you can't say something good, then don't say anything.
The internet isn't for manners. Go back to your safe space, mary
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So what is it for? It certainly wasn't designed for people to troll around and name-call others. Troll is as troll does. Why don't you go back to your cave and blow yourself?
Hahaha
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Says the keyboard warrior. The internet is for intelligent discourse. Something you lack......intelligence. You seem to like to behave likea spoiled 5 year old.....carry on then...
Tee hee hee
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Why don't you troll somewhere else?
He was a great man and will be missed
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Watched the biopic tonight. Amazing guy.
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Thank you, Steve.
And thank you, Rene.
In my opinion, he made two brilliant moves (neither of which were even slightly his ideas I bet)
1. Create a decent device and crappy software to allow non-techies access to digital music (Ipod and Itunes)
2. Scrap their garbage OS and mooch off Unix for their hardware OS's.
Allowing them the funds and profits to attract the people they needed to create/invent/dream up all of the follow on products and services they have.
And this is only YOUR opinion....
Will never be forgotten. Thank You Steve
Rest In Peace Steve Jobs.
https://youtu.be/28QnyN5wOXU
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I always liked Steve Jobs. I didn't really know how much of a jerk he was, way back when. I just knew he was the co-founder of Apple, and more the heart, while Woz was the brains. I respected them both, even though I used their competitor's products. I tried reading his biography — the popular one that came out after he passed, but I could not get into it. Most of what I know comes from movies. "Pirates of Silicon Valley," "Jobs," and "Steve Jobs." And the three-part documentary, "Triumph of the Nerds." While the movies may have been embellished for Hollywood, I think I got a clear enough picture. Steve Jobs was definitely flawed, if the latest film got his treatment of his daughter right. If you watch it, he really comes off as a jerk. But if you watch it again (or read between the lines the first time), while he is shown to be dismissive of his daughter, he does make human connections with her, more as a friend. In the first scene, having her draw on the Macintosh, and in the second scene, relating with her about music. If that's accurate, I believe he was just an introvert, probably had a short fuse. Not at all unlike many of us. Rest in peace, Steve.
Every single moment in the latest Steve Jobs movie was fabricated for dramatic purposes. Don't believe me? Ask everyone that knew him and was there in those moments. They all disavow that film. I liked the movie but it felt like fan fiction of the highest order. You get a more accurate sense of Steve just by watching any one of his keynotes.
There's only one man in this world that can turn the world on its ear. As an Apple product owner such as MacBook Pro iPad Pro iPhone 7 Plus would you can do with these products is totally an unbelievable experience in my opinion. Steve Jobs was not only a man of vision but I man they could for see the future . He change lots of industries and his time with his forward thinking and aggressive vision for where he leaves Apple and the highest pedestal that anybody in the world could put a company . He was truly a special human being that touch many people with his visions of technology around the world RIP STEVE you would be missed not by us as a consumer but as a fellow human being .