Steve Jobs has died.

I didn't know that I could feel so sad for the passing of someone I'm not related to. Thanks Steve, you made great products and you did it with an unrivalled passion.

RIP.
 
rover said:
Gentlemen (to those for which this statement is applicable), with all due respect to each other and Mr Jobs' family and friends, please don't look at RFF as your playground to be a miserable jerk.

No other warnings will be provided.

Thank you
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Thank you. Kinda sorry I brought it up now.
 
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R.I.P. Steve Jobs. Genuinely moved to hear of his death. Can't say that for many C.E.O.s! For many, including me, he has rock star status.

Anyway, I am going to watch 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' with the kids over the weekend. I know is fictionalised, but i think it captures the excitement of the time.
 
Moment to moment - well said Harry Teasley. Same for me. My iPhone, iPad, MacBook, iMacs and Mac Minis. I lost my iPhone 3GS last year and waited 4 (FOUR) days for an iPhone 4: those four days were hard strange days. I'm serious, my life is just so efficient with the benefits of Steve Jobs's vision. I dread the possibility of it all slipping and in ten years we are wading through concrete lamenting the inertia and decline of a post Jobs era. I'm an optimist and I tell myself that won't happen. I'll have my M2 and some nice paper and my pens and my binoculars to console me and I'll retire and spend more time outdoors and won't even try to tell my grandchildren just how good and how exciting it all was.
 
I am born about 3 weeks before Steve Job. What a loss of a genuis mind, and so early.
 
To me, computers are like musical instruments. I've worked with them for so long and incorporated into business, pleasure and artistic endeavors they're just second nature. Perhaps I am lucky to be this way, but I think I owe some of this to Mr. Jobs. Some write the music for the instruments, some make the instruments and others just perform with them. Steve was one of the extremely rare individuals who did all three.

What's truly remarkable is that he could pass that along to so many.

RIP Steve. Thanks for Quickdraw, the system toolbox and system heap. Those were the seeds of a completely different road.
 
Frank Version Two said:
I'm not a fan of over-zealous moderation but you did the right thing by cleaning up this thread.

Woz's comments: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/06/steve-wozniak-on-steve-jobs/ wait for the end.

RIP Steve
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Woz is such a nice guy. I feel kind of bad that their business pulled their friendship apart, when it's obvious Woz still had a lot of respect for Jobs as a person, and not just a business partner.

Jobs certainly had a very interesting career, and a good bit of luck too. It's kind of interesting how things just happened to fall into place for him. I honestly believe that Apple would have gone down the wrong road if he hadn't left/been fired in the 80s - and he was lucky enough to come back, an older, wiser man, to put them back on the right track when they needed it a decade later.

It's a bit of macabre coincidence that Jeff Raskin who started the Macintosh project passed away in 2005, also from pancreatic cancer.
 
Gentlemen (to those for which this statement is applicable), with all due respect to each other and Mr Jobs' family and friends, please don't look at RFF as your playground to be a miserable jerk.
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Dear oh dear.
 
His most memorable quote for me was from 2005. I see that the NYT ended their article today with it.

"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish".

We know what he meant.
RIP Mr Jobs and thanks for all you left behind.
 
I have been away for a short holiday without listening to radio, tv and no connection to the net. Back home this was the first news I got, Very sad. At my age I still remember that my second computer was an AppleII and later I bought the first Mac. RIP Steve, and condolences to the family and friends.
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Very sad news. I felt this way when John Postel died, in '98. Steve Jobs was about the same age as John Postel when he passed away. All too early.

He leaves behind a legacy, and will be remembered for a long time. Anyone with these accomplishments should be at peace with theirself, I certainly hope that he was.
 
There was another OS that was called Pink that became Talagent as it matured. Completely Object based from the ground up. Very very cool. Kind of like Lisa, too far ahead of the hardware at the time. I doubt we would be where we are today without him getting thrown out, building Next and coming back. I do not think he would have been the masterful leader he became without that set of events. It mellowed some of his communication and need to control everything somewhat without defocusing him from being insanely great.

Pink was pretty dang cool, lots of great people worked on it. Like osX, it broke the internals of classic Mac OS, but it was worth it.

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A visionary, a man with class, must be a ruthless critic and a perfectionist (probably towards himself even more).

I am not big on celebrities, not an Apple fan either, but Steve Job deserves his cult-like status.

I can't think of anyone else on his level that approaches his style.

He will be missed greatly.
 
being computer geek, one of moves I especially liked about 10 years ago was when Apple chose Unix as their foundation for OS X. Unix was always stable, secure, efficient etc. but hardly very user friendly, and tricky to bring into mainstream computing. yet its now ticking under the hood of almost every Mac out there, and people choose OS X because its easy and hassle free compare to alternatives. if some average CEO had been behind steering wheel of Apple that the time, doubt this would have never happened.

OS X might be giving away to future iOS, and Microsoft's "we get it right third time" also eventually brings results, but past 10 years would have been difficult without Steve's vision :)
 
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RIP Steve Jobs. An interesting guy-- there was a good NPR radio show about him today. It's probably worth trying to track down on their website.
 
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