RIP Mr. Steve Jobs

Actualy it's the other way around. The development of the iPad happened first, then decided to do iPhone.
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^ That's what Sony does too.
Makes a console, then makes a smaller version shortly after.

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There's no point in lowering myself to the level of some of the idiots who spew crap in this thread. This thread is about a great individual who has made a difference in this world. Not by the products his company has developed/introduced/marketed, but by the way he inspired the people around him.

You're so cool with your I don't give a fuck attitude.. and dreamy..

Just kidding. Eat shit.

He's this days Gutenberg. The first W3C servers were running on NEXT computers.

101 magazine covers with Steve Jobs.

Kuo Design | Steve Jobs on Magazine Covers

A man that has made a huge impact on the world.


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much respect from google as well. Found on their google page:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6119/...d4eeeef6_z.jpg

Please read about how demanding he was to work with.

Nothing wrong with that. People need to be pushed. Some flourish, some fold.


Union workers.................... nuff said.

It's funny (no actually it's pathetic) to see comments here on RS and in tech blogs everywhere where people are trying to minimize Jobs contribution to the computer/tech industry. It's almost as if all the nerds are raging away trying to re-write history to reduce Jobs to a footnote.

Or they dig through his past looking for everything he might have done wrong to portray him as an evil person (as if their lives or the lives of other notable people are so perfect).

Only an idiot with no knowledge of computer history before Windows 95 (or outside of PC's) could claim that Jobs didn't have anything less than a huge impact on the computer industry as we know it today. And Apple haters claim Apple fans live in a "distortion reality field". Oh the irony.

I'm going to assume like most iHipsters you haven't actually done your own research and only know what Apple has told you. Lookup how demanding and ruthless he was to work with and why he was fired from Apple originally.

Jobs was important to the industry, no discounting that, yet not in the ways most are lead to believe.

Without Apply fanboys there'd be no Apple haters. That's the irony.

isn't this the guy who also said canucks suck :troll:

God, I don't know why I even bother replying to your posts............

Was never really an apple fan, but props to him on the iPhones and iPads.... those things are fun as hell when your bored :)

RIP Steve

He was important to Apple in the very least. The issue most people had with him was the fact that he was very strict with his vision of the company and what products HE wanted to push out. Prior to the iphone, touch screen phones were a novelty and not taken seriously. It was his persistance and draconion omnipresence that allowed the iphone/ipod/ipad to work. This was ultimately why he was REHIRED as a result.

In a way, Jobs dictated the trends that dominates the tech sphere, instead of watching trends form and following the emb and flow of the consumer market.

Sure he was probably and ass and hard to work with, but really who isn't when you are that high up in the corporate food chain. And really, is tacit to discuss his lack of importance or his moral character a day after his death??

A lot of my friends are retweeting this. Thought it was prety interesting.

Hong Kong Teen Designs A Worldwide Phenomenon Remembering Steve Jobs | AX3 | Global Asian Lifestyle + Pop Culture Webzine

Backstory to the design of the Apple logo with the Steve Jobs silhouette (posted previously in other page).

Very touching tribute.
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What does that have to do with how he influenced an entire industry? We're not remembering him for his humanitarian duties, we're talking about his great accomplishments within the tech world.

He most definitely was an ass, but he was an ass who brought Apple back from the brink of bankruptcy to being the 2nd most valuable company in the world. Not to mention he also revolutionized the personal music players, cell phones and computers.

I'm pretty sure if he had not been as demanding as he was, Apple would have died a long time ago.. and we would still be using a god damns stylus with our tablets.

RIP. I heard about his death in class yesterday.

I don't know either, you are so often wrong.

You do know the timeline of when he was rehired vs the timeline of the iPod right? and that Apple didn't even fully design the interface of first iPod?

I've already said this: he didn't predict trends, he set them. yet I do like your word of dictate better.

Context.

I replied to someone that mentioned how "inspiring" he was by recommending they read about how he "inspired" his workers.

This

rip jobs... but i still like my nexus s