Steve Jobs dead at 56

[vikki59]

Desert, do you have kids? Did they ever watch toy story or finding nemo or cars, how about wall-e, maybe up. You get my point. He created pixar. He was a brilliant mind that understood what most of us enjoyed in life. Do you like your computer? do you like your smart phone? How about your mp3? You don't have to like Apple's brand but he was the leader in just about all of the above. He created the competition. The "clones" so to speak... Steve Jobs to the world of technology is kinda like how Alexander Graham Bell was to the telephone, Henry Ford to the automobile Industry, etc etc... ... I for one don't have a mac, but if I could afford one I would. THEY DON'T BREAK, AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE REPLACED AND REPAIRED every time your turn around... I LOVE my IPOD touch!! Oh yea, wasn't the whole touch thing started by Jobs also... ... ... there is a reason why those things are so popular... He will be greatly missed. What a nasty cancer he had and not a nice way to die. RIP Steve Jobs... ... I for one appreciated what you did for us...

I fully understand and agree. I'm not a fan of Apple or Jobs either. I was happy when they started using BSD Unix for their OS but the whole ipod/ipuck/ibrick proprietary thing has left a very bad taste in my mouth. The only thing I could praise that man for now is coming up with a way to rob lots of people of their money happily with products that were never worth half their MSRP to begin with.

 

[K9Luvr]

Desert, do you have kids? Did they ever watch toy story or finding nemo or cars, how about wall-e, maybe up. You get my point. He created pixar. He was a brilliant mind that understood what most of us enjoyed in life. Do you like your computer? do you like your smart phone? How about your mp3? You don't have to like Apple's brand but he was the leader in just about all of the above. He created the competition. The "clones" so to speak... Steve Jobs to the world of technology is kinda like how Alexander Graham Bell was to the telephone. etc etc... ... I for one don't have a mac, but if I could afford one I would. THEY DON'T BREAK, AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE REPLACED AND REPAIRED every time your turn around... I LOVE my IPOD touch!! Oh yea, wasn't the whole touch thing started by Jobs also... ... ... there is a reason why those things are so popular... He will be greatly missed. What a nasty cancer he had and not a nice way to die. RIP Steve Jobs... ... I for one appreciated what you did for us...

Well said, Vikki59

 

[amnesiac]

Christmas morning, 1985, I was 10 years old. I woke up to find an Apple IIc set up outside of my bedroom. My life was never the same! It was the best Christmas ever. Thanks, Steve.
RIP

 

[incantius]

Thanks to him you have that handy dandy mouse you click stuff with.

wrong Clover...actually the "mouse" technology was developed by Xerox PARC (Palo Alto) for computer adaptation (of course the "basis" for the tech was brought about much earlier). for more info you can look at Mouse (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[incantius]

I fully understand and agree. I'm not a fan of Apple or Jobs either. I was happy when they started using BSD Unix for their OS but the whole ipod/ipuck/ibrick proprietary thing has left a very bad taste in my mouth. The only thing I could praise that man for now is coming up with a way to rob lots of people of their money happily with products that were never worth half their MSRP to begin with.

OS X is actually a "hybrid" of the BSD Unix & Jobs' own NeXT efforts. that being said OS X still has the security flaws/vulnerabilities of Unix & NeXT...

 

[incantius]

P.S. Steve Jobs was far more technically gifted than Bill Gates is or ever will be. Gates' biggest accomplishments were purchasing products from lesser-known developers & marketing the heck out of them.

I'm no Jobs nor Gates fan but given the choice I'll take Windows any day...but Jobs did help to push the tech boundaries and help drag people into the next phase of computing. RIP Steve...

 

[Desertfremen]

Desert, do you have kids? Did they ever watch toy story or finding nemo or cars, how about wall-e, maybe up. You get my point. He created pixar.

Nope, no kids, don't want any. I don't care about Pixar or ever liked any of the movies. I prefer anime. (Elven Lied anyone?)

He was a brilliant mind that understood what most of us enjoyed in life. Do you like your computer? do you like your smart phone? How about your mp3? You don't have to like Apple's brand but he was the leader in just about all of the above. He created the competition. The "clones" so to speak... Steve Jobs to the world of technology is kinda like how Alexander Graham Bell was to the telephone. etc etc... ... I for one don't have a mac, but if I could afford one I would. THEY DON'T BREAK, AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE REPLACED AND REPAIRED every time your turn around... I LOVE my IPOD touch!! Oh yea, wasn't the whole touch thing started by Jobs also... ... ... there is a reason why those things are so popular... He will be greatly missed. What a nasty cancer he had and not a nice way to die. RIP Steve Jobs... ... I for one appreciated what you did for us...

I use a Blackberry. RIM never needed the ipuck to do anything. I still have my first BB that was an email only device with black/white LCD screen and it still powers up and works. (though I now currently use a 9850 which I would like to say that I do *not* like the ipuck like touchscreen it has. I want the SurePress touchscreen back!) I like my computer but IMHO microcomputing would have happened with or without him. I have never owned an apple/mac computer though I've had to use them.

I will give apple this: Back in the day Macs did used to be worth the extra cost because of SCSI and the fantastic RISC Motorola processors. But now they are just the same thing as anything else when it comes to hardware.

I'm not sure where the replace and repair comes in since it seems that I rarely have people asking me to fix their BBs. It's always their ipucks or 'roids. Or trying to fix their itunes libraries! ugh. BTW I never was a fan of GUIs! Damn apple! Popular doesn't mean better. It usually just means easier in all the wrong ways.

oh btw mp3s had nothing to do with apple either. I was d/l music as mp2s back in the mid 90's. Winamp version 1.3? (recalling a long ago memory) was my saviour then. Mp3s followed a few years afterwards long before ipuck anything.

 

[incantius]

oh btw mp3s had nothing to do with apple either. I was d/l music as mp2s back in the mid 90's. Winamp version 1.3? (recalling a long ago memory) was my saviour then. Mp3s followed a few years afterwards long before ipuck anything.

i still use WinAMP (it's not as good since AOHell took over but it's still much better than Windows Media Player, etc)

 

[Desertfremen]

OS X is actually a "hybrid" of the BSD Unix & Jobs' own NeXT efforts. that being said OS X still has the security flaws/vulnerabilities of Unix & NeXT...

Now that I didn't know. Since I never found the Mac OS GUI to be intuitive I always just used the CUI terminal window to use these machines of which it always seemed to act like standard BSD. Interesting. I must go read now. TY. =D

 

[incantius]

try this link Looking back at OS X's origins | Operating Systems | MacUser | Macworld

 

[vikki59]

Nope, no kids, don't want any. I don't care about Pixar or ever liked any of the movies. I prefer anime. (Elven Lied anyone?)

How sad that you don't appreciate the work and quality that goes into those movies. I love to take my nephew's and nieces to those movies and watch them be excited and happy to be able to watch something like that. Besides the big kid in me likes to watch them too


I use a Blackberry. RIM never needed the ipuck to do anything. I still have my first BB that was an email only device with black/white LCD screen and it still powers up and works. (though I now currently use a 9850 which I would like to say that I do *not* like the ipuck like touchscreen it has. I want the SurePress touchscreen back!) I like my computer but IMHO microcomputing would have happened with or without him. I have never owned an apple/mac computer though I've had to use them.

I will give apple this: Back in the day Macs did used to be worth the extra cost because of SCSI and the fantastic RISC Motorola processors. But now they are just the same thing as anything else when it comes to hardware.

I'm not sure where the replace and repair comes in since it seems that I rarely have people asking me to fix their BBs. It's always their ipucks or 'roids. Or trying to fix their itunes libraries! ugh. BTW I never was a fan of GUIs! Damn apple! Popular doesn't mean better. It usually just means easier in all the wrong ways.

oh btw mp3s had nothing to do with apple either. I was d/l music as mp2s back in the mid 90's. Winamp version 1.3? (recalling a long ago memory) was my saviour then. Mp3s followed a few years afterwards long before ipuck anything.

So sorry for you that you just can't see what a great inventor he was. Of course not everyone is going to like his products. just like everyone doesn't like bb's... NO I don't have an iphone, mine are samsungs. BUT I appreciate what a genius he was. Can't you at least give credit where credit is due??? He had a huge impact on the world. Much bigger than bb. He was THE richest man in the world. His company was second only to Exon. He made what most of us like to use in this day and age. He had the vision to see what was cool, what was fun what made our worlds easier for us on a daily basis, before we did. Could you have created what he did with the impact he did? Do I like all apple products? Of course not. What you fail to realize in YOUR technically gifted mind, the majority of us are not technical. We like the gui's. DOS was a PITA. That is why it is no more, except to the repair ppl.

Sounds like you might have job security out of all of these inventions. I'd think you'd be more grateful Steve Jobs helped to create your job.

 

[incantius]

We like the gui's. DOS was a PITA. That is why it is no more, except to the repair ppl.

you think DOS was a PITA you should try "vanilla" Unix & CPM

 

[vikki59]

oh btw mp3s had nothing to do with apple either. I was d/l music as mp2s back in the mid 90's. Winamp version 1.3? (recalling a long ago memory) was my saviour then. Mp3s followed a few years afterwards long before ipuck anything.

Maybe not, but he made it very easy for most of us to use. Until the ipod listening to downloaded music on the go was not that easy for the majority. I absolutely love my ipod touch... I have such a cool library of music on it. All genre's. Most from my cd's. But I can take it anywhere, even play it in my car. By Steve Jobs creating the ipod he took the way we listen to music to the next level, whether you like it or not or whether you care to listen to it or not...

 

[vikki59]

Still have my dos school books (I had to keep them for memories maybe? ) from my computer repair classes. It was fun at the time, but one itty bitty mistake and you spent hours sometimes trying to figure out where it was, lol !

you think DOS was a PITA you should try "vanilla" Unix & CPM

 

[incantius]

still have my dos school books (i had to keep them for memories maybe? ) from my computer repair classes. It was fun at the time, but one itty bitty mistake and you spent hours sometimes trying to figure out where it was, lol !

computer geeks unite!!!

 

[Qlock]

I don't understand the kind of attachment to people we don't know .....he was a business man and a salesman yes but the santa clara valley is full of brilliant minds and public speakers ( after all he was selling ) that created lots of jobs here from the 70's to the 90's who will never see his recognition. I am sorry for his family's loss, no different then for any one else .
As for me ,I grew up here and we never used an apple or an i-phone ...were pc people .
And android apps are spanking apple in sales .Just sayin.Macs have never been on the desks of any high tech company I've seen here .jmho

I bet you can appreciate the mouse you used when creating this post and the smartphone you use everyday. Steve did that. Even though there is the opportunity for people to go overboard, he really was a pioneer that created things that we use everyday and some of us take for granted. He pushed the boundaries. Thats what everyone is mourning.

 

[incantius]

I bet you can appreciate the mouse you used when creating this post and the smartphone you use everyday. Steve did that. Even though there is the opportunity for people to go overboard, he really was a pioneer that created things that we use everyday and some of us take for granted. He pushed the boundaries. Thats what everyone is mourning.

see my previous post regarding the mouse. give credit where it's due. Jobs did a lot of things but the mouse wasn't his...(yet another "inter-webs" myth and/or Mac fanboy fantasy)

 

[ironslave]

jobs got the GUI and mouse and all from Xerox. It's hard to believe they wanted to trash that project.

 

[Clover~]

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." ~Steve Jobs

 

[incantius]

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." ~Steve Jobs

i'm crazy...why ain't i rich???