Steve Jobs has died.

[DNG]

RIP Steve.... You lived your vision, and changed the world around you... literally!

 

[GaryLH]

I see the point you're getting at with the iPhone (but would like to point out nonetheless that before the iPhone even came out, more than half the world's phones had a built-in camera...) Maybe this can serve as a posthumous tribute to Jobs' marketing genius.

The were a lots of smartphone with cameras. The Sony and Nokia lines had some of the Best cameras. The iPhone actually had an inferior camera originally, but Apple opening up apps to the iPhone and then all the various camera apps really did it.. Of course Apple kept on makings things better and iPhone became the default camera that u always had with u.

Gary

 

[kshapero]

Poor taste comment that was not based upon fact.

Not completely true. He was tought to work for, no doubt, but he was not ruthless and he did not steal ideas. I think you have him confused with Bill Gates. Anyway can't those that admired him have a chance to mourn before bashing him?

 

[kdemas]

Very sad tonight. Here's the commercial that pretty much started it all.

 

[BillBingham2]

I've worked for Apple and known a lot of people who have and still do. One friend years back created a wonderful product that could have pushed Apple down a different path towards success. The product was never released because a different company forced Steve's hand into not releasing it. The engineer never had a bad thing to say about him. His truly met terms of being insanely great and wildly successful. His clarity of vision with a big picture perspective but intimate knowledge and focus on every detail was one of a kind.

B2

 

[sepiareverb]

That said, I don't really think he had an impact on photography though; I don't think anyone's photos look all that different because they were postprocessed using Photoshop for Mac, as opposed to Photoshop for Windows.

I've got to disagree in that I don't think that Windows, let alone PS would be anything like it is without the Mac.

 

[Thardy]

Oh, that is sad.

 

[naruto]

I think the thread is going down the path of trolling...

To have achieved so much, and impacted uncountable number of people in 56 short years, I think Steve Jobs lived many lifetimes in that short span.

*Mac Addict* though I do work for Microsoft

 

[rxmd]

Hey guys, those are just computers and pieces of software. This thread is the one place where the usual Mac/Windows mudfights are pretty inappropriate.

 

[BillBingham2]

That's OK

That's OK

I think the thread is going down the path of trolling.......

I'm trying as hard as I can to keep them away.

*Mac Addict* though I do work for Microsoft

Worry not my friend. I am going to attend and protest at a satellite Occupy Wall Street rally and I have an MBA and have worked in the Finance Industry over 15 years.

B2

 

[naruto]

I have used Apple products for years; nevertheless I am not going to whitewash history or engage in blind hero worship. I apologize if this offends the tender-hearted among RFF readers.

And, why do you assume that we are engaging in blind hero worship or we are white washing history? Jobs was a leading Technology Innovator of our times. He could see a great product or an idea years ahead of anyone else, and that is also a fact. Can't we just acknowledge him for that?

 

[collum]

a little more sensitivity about time and place (ie. this thread, on the day a person passes) would probably display a little more humanity. completely baffles me as to why you would even think about fueling something like this at this moment.

blah blah blah......

 

[v_roma]

Sad, sad news.

 

[back alley]

i'm reading this from my ipad...rip

 

[robklurfield]

One thing that always has struck me about Apple, and Steve Jobs in particular, is that these folks always designed products that they thought were cool, that they wanted to use themselves, that they had paid attention to how they felt to use, etc. At a lot of large industrial companies, more attention seems to be paid to "how many units can we move and at how high a margin." Don't get me wrong; of course Apple has always been concerned about these business imperatives, too. But, the thing that set them apart, and I hope will continue to set them apart, is their own personal concern about "if I could make the product any way that I wanted - with total freedom in design and features - what would I personally want in it? Have I done that with this gizmo? Would I actually use this myself?"

 

[fotomeow]

He is a giant who's shoulder's future giants will stand on. A great example of evolution and of self-actualization.
"this is your life, dont live someone elses". It is quite sad.

 

[Bug]

 

[Ken Shipman]

This hurts a little. I'm sorry you didn't have more time to smell the roses, Steve. My wife and I will miss you greatly. So long.

 

[Bnack]

He believed whole-heartedly that someday everyone would have a computer in their homes, when computers were still gigantic machines that took punchcards for running algorithms. In hindsight the home compter seems so obvious, but once upon a time, it was crazy. People will claim that he stole ideas, but in actuality, he saw the possibilities and eventualities for inventions that the inventors themselves did not. I think visionary is indeed the proper term.

 

[pakeha]

All of the POSITIVE comments so far are of course true. And regardless of western sensitivities at the time of death the fact is, none of you would have your gadgets without a few of these.