Steve Jobs has died.

As an overachiever himself, Steve had the talent to inspire (or drive) others to overachieve themselves. He had assembled a telented crew to design the Lisa and Mac and the graphical user interface elements that are now common across platforms. All personal computer users have benefitted from this.

In early 1984 I was shopping for a PC, reading Creative Computing to bring myself up to speed on the choices. At this time the IBM PC was primo, and its BIOS hadn’t yet been reverse-engineered, so there was the issue of various degrees of being “IBM compatible”. I figured a solid choice would be an IBM or Apple II, or maybe the DEC Rainbow... and then along came the Mac and I was captured. It was a radical conversion to the GUI. Delightfully, the Mac was the only PC then that didn’t ship with BASIC. Although I could write Fortran, I didn’t want to deal with that sort of thing on a personal machine. Sure was the right choice for me. Thank you, Steve.
 
As a fellow Zen Buddhist, I anticipate Steve's next incarnation.

Last Friday I took delivery of a MacBook Air, my first Mac computer. We have multiple other Apple devices in the house -- 4x iPod touch, a few Shuffles and an AirPort Extreme. All of which did their part in motivating me to save my money for the cash to purchase the MBA.

Maybe it's pure sentimentality and makes no difference, but I'm glad I got the MBA before Jobs died.

For all who feel it necessary to trash talk, maybe just sit with yourself and look inside a bit. The man died.

posted from my MacBook Air 13"
 
His next Incarnation?

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I could care less about Apple, but Steve Jobs started a company that now employs 49,000 people. That is impressive. Go to the billionaires list and see who beats that (maybe Carlos Slim, and possibly William Gates, but I'd like to hear of any others).
 
On an somewhat unrelated note, how many of you are familiar with Ronald Wayne? He was a co-founder of Apple and had a 10% stake in the company. He sold off all his shares in 1976 for $800, yes, eight hundred dollars.

Currently, that 10% is worth over $35,000,000,000.
 
Yup, still alive. We interviewed him when Jobs retired, didnt look too depressed talking about it..
 
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raid said:
Is this man still alive? Did he ever get over it?
This is so sad.
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I remember reading an interview with him a year or so ago. Says he doesn't really care. He wanted to help the Steves get their company going, but wasn't particularly interested in computers, so he left. He also felt that if something went wrong, creditors might go after his property (Jobs and Woz owned basically nothing at the time).

Jobs did later offer him a job at Apple, but he turned it down.

From an article:

"He has remained in intermittent touch with his two former partners and last saw Jobs five years ago.
Mr Wayne said: "He had a computer show and invited me. He paid the plane fare and I was VIP, front row. We met Woz and the three of us had lunch. I'm pleased for them. Whatever Steve Jobs has achieved he deserves it. He worked hard for it.""
 
Thank you steve jobs......

for the Powerbooks, iMacs, Macbooks, ipods and ipod touch....... that I have been using since the 90's in no particular order.

May you rest in peace.......
 
LeicaFan said:
He sold off all his shares in 1976 for $800, yes, eight hundred dollars.

Currently, that 10% is worth over $35,000,000,000.
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Not many people would have kept those shares through 35 years, ups and downs, and many splits...
 
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