RIP Steve Jobs

[titanic3]

R.I.P, and condolences to all those who knew him personally.

[M0nkey_Man]

just saw it

[Hap]

yes rest in peace.  a guy who did so much.

[soda72]

 

[F22RaptorDude]

Paved the way for every bit of technology we have now

[Jayhawk]

Paved the way for every bit of technology we have now

...sorry but not really.

[icepac]

Paved the way for marketers everywhere.

Wozniak is who got things moving.

If either Jobs or Wozniak were replaced with another person, I doubt Apple would exist.

[Hap]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA&feature=player_embedded#!

Job's Stanford 2005 commencement speech.

[olds442]

makes me sick seeing how some PC fanboys are hating on him.....

with out him we would have no aces or some BBS, gosh some people have no lifes, hating on dead people. thats all i have to say.

[coombz]

with out him we would have no aces or some BBS, gosh some people have no lifes, hating on dead people. thats all i have to say.

  makes me scared seeing how stupid some people are

[Tigger29]

makes me sick seeing how some PC fanboys are hating on him.....

WOW!  It's not that we are hating on him it's that we don't quite see him as being the GOD that Apple fanbois make him out to be.  He was a visionary and a heck of a businessman that's for sure.  Did he revolutionize the computer era?  I don't think so.  He just took pre-existing ideas and marketed the heck out of them until they because associated with apple.  Computers were around long before the Mac.  MP3 players were around long before the iPod.  Smart phones were along long before the iPhone.  Tablets were around long before the iPad.

with out him we would have no aces or some BBS, gosh some people have no lifes, hating on dead people. thats all i have to say.

WOW!  I won't even bother to start on that one.. I really hope you're being sarcastic there!

[Wolfala]

makes me scared seeing how stupid some people are

Hate to say it, but should I be bothered by the feeling that I don't care that he's gone? I mean, i have 2 iPads, 2 iPhones and a MacBook - they are tools that I use. Tools, like a Stanley hammer. It's no miracle what was produced - fact they didn't produce any tech that I'm aware of -  it was just packaged in an appealing way to the consumer. I'm no fan of the closed phone iPad architecture, drm and iTunes.

Not everything that came from his organization was Jesus worthy. Spoken as a user, not a fan by any stretch. 

[007Rusty]

 

[Maverick]

I think he really pushed the industry in the direction it has taken. I don't doubt that many of the things we use and take for granted would have come about anyhow but he certainly had an impact on getting them into the market and profitability for his company. The use of competition from his company spurred quite a bit of developments into the market place.

Was he a "god", heck no but he did make an impact.

IMO, and I am NOT an apple / iphone / i anything fan, he did a lot of good. The big question now, what path will his company take?

[icepac]

Steve Jobs was the driver.

Wozniak was the crewchief.

In most star driver careers, the crewchief get's replaced by a collective (team) for the driver to reach his success zenith.

That said, I think apple has let the opposition in smart phones gain far too much market share by being way too tight on connectivity to thier products in that apple usually asks for huge licensing sums for a third party hardware supplier's product to work with iphone/ipad/ipod touch.