Wow, after doing research on him, he is one great person who is not afraid of following his own dreams. I respect that.

Only thing that I've owned from Apple is the iPod Touch 1st Gen. I hope Tim Cooks can lead this company. Hopefully, my next purchase will be an iPhone or Macbook Pro.

RIP

I just watched almost all the keynote speeches on all of the new products they released (iMac, iPod, Nano, Mini, Etc.) and by far the most hype and build-up out of all of these was the first iPhone in 2007.

RIP

Respect from the industry from ppl who care about it.

Engineers FTW.

Some of you gadget heads here need to step away from the internet and go for a walk.

RIP a visionary.

i dont use much for apple products, but seeing how apple's vision of user interface and interaction making the end user the most important piece of every product was what made their products stand out above everyone elses.

Love or Hate apple products, his and apple's vision changed how the interfaces of all electronic products today. May you be an andriod supporter, blackberry, or iphone, pc or mac, all great ideas stemmed from health competition and innovation.

I remember using mac's in elementary school, the simplicity of it and ease of use was mindblowing.

RIP a great visionary.

Wow, RIP Steve Jobs!

A man very few have met yet he effected us all!

I didn't think of this, but...

I guess an apple a day didn't work...

well according to Skinny on how Jobs tackled his condition i guess it did work but not in the right way

Then you too can thank Xerox ;)
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I've seen a lot of comments/articles online that Apple is going to go downhill now that Jobs is gone. I don't buy it, for two reasons.

First there's time-to-market. Steve doesn't wake up on Monday with an idea and on Friday it's released. Apple, like any company, would have a roadmap of what it wants to accomplish both in the near term and long term. Steve wanted certain features in the iPhone (for example) back in 2007 which still haven't been implemented because of the current state of technology. It's virtually guaranteed that whatever Apple releases in the next year or two (iPhone 5/6, Apple televisions, game consoles....) have already been well defined with the only thing left to do is work out production details and perform testing. In other words, Apple has a lot of Steve's ideas/vision that need finishing. Apple isn't going to run out of ideas next week now that Steve is gone. In a couple years they might, but definitely not in the short term.

Secondly, and more importantly, is how people react to a tragic event like this. When something like this happens people can do one of three things: fold, maintain the status quo, or rise up and excel. I tried to remember any event where a loss like this caused someone to fold - a company to die off or a sports team to lose and I couldn't come up with any (though I'm sure examples exist). However, I have heard of countless examples over the years where an event like this inspires people to go on to greater things (team sports is a popular theme where losing a teammate causes everyone to rally). I think this is a part of human nature as it's a common theme in situations like this. That is why I think Apple employees will, after a period of mourning, rise up with a new outlook at life and will do even greater things than they have, in memory of Steve.

Now well have to wait and see.....
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iGrave ..

And, if he was such a positive influence on the people he worked with, Apple would continue to flourish even without him.

That's all assuming he is more than just their marketing master.
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See, the LOL was directed towards apple fanboys riding his dick to the grave. My first post which was conveniently deleted by the mod made it sound like I'm making fun of Steve Jobs which I am not but the transparency of retards following popular trends and gadgets.

If he was as good as everyone says he is, then is #1 job was not building a better phone. It wasn't designing a better computer. If he was that good, it was building a better team that can build a better anything.

If he succeeded, then they succeed.

Every indication was that he made building the culture at the company a top priority. Like their products or not, I think he succeeded in changing it fundamentally into what it is today.

RIP Mr. Jobs
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rip steve

Siri told Jobs it was "time to go", so he did.

too soon? :whistle:

rip steve...

American director Steven Spielberg said: "Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips."

"There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will." - Steve Jobs.

outside of HK apple store LOL
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speaking as someone who has never owned an apple product his entire life, you cannot deny the impact he has had on the world around you. nit picking at whether he was the one who did it or not is irrelevant. he was the face of the company and it's leader.

RIP Steve Jobs

Someone on another forum said it best:

Now every iHipster eagerly awaits news of what next trend to follow.