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Steve Jobs Dies: The "Apple falls from the tree"

Posted 7 months ago|16 comments|470 views
The "Apple falls from the tree"
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"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being," the text read. "Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple."
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-j...%29

"Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO, has died at the age of 56 after a long battle with cancer. "The world has lost a visionary," Barack Obama says in tribute."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/st...

The world is connected to day because of the genius of the likes of Steve Jobs, we continue to take for granted each day the ability to step into the future of communication and social networking... we owe a great deal to this gifted man. The "future" of technology seems only hindered by the lack of imagination, and that is what made Jobs a "limitless" visionary and inspiration to all those who attempt to walk in his footsteps. Now more than ever reaching the world is mere child's-play... but will we be great enough for this moment?

Leave your comments of how the life of Steve Jobs, may have impacted your life...
UPDATE - 7 months ago
"Many have said that Steve Jobs is the equivalent of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Walt Disney for our generation. All these men have exerted control on every facet of their company. What they are more famous for is that they have built the future."
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/226947/20...
UPDATE - 2 months ago
John Piper - "Don't waste your life"
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7 months ago: The "Apple falls from the tree" ...makes a good title for a book, I wonder if it is in production as we speak? (October 6, 2011)
Perfect Horizon
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7 months ago: Steve did a lot to advance the computer and modern technology. Without him I doubt I would have an Android Phone to use. He was truly a revolutionary mind when it comes to personal electronics, and while I personally cannot stand any products produced by Apple as they are DRAMATICALLY over priced considering the hardware.

Without Steve Jobs there is no way that Google would have gone to the degree they have in terms of producing Android (which as we speak I am using a ChromeBook, I have an Evo4g and have pre-ordered the KindleFire).

I thank Steve Jobs for creating a market for unique and interesting personal electronics.
7 months ago: The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree?

What if it was a sell-out to Satan from the get go?

Ponder that.
7 months ago: Steve Jobs was a visionary at taking other peoples ideas and making them better. While the iPod, iPhone and iPad are all great devices, none of them were the first of their kind.

The graphical user interface that Apple debuted on the Macintosh, was developed first by Xerox and they showed Jobs a prototype running a GUI OS on an Xerox Alto in 1973 with a one button mouse. The Macintosh does not arrive until 1984.

The iPod was not the world's first MP3 player. The Listen Up player by Audio Highway was in 1997. It was followed by the MPMan from SaeHan and the Rio PMP300 from Diamond Multimedia both in 1998. iPod's don't come to market until 2001.

Apple did not invent the Smartphone either. The first Smartphone was the IBM Simon in 1993. Smartphones running Palm OS, Blackberry OS and Windows CE all predate the iPhone which arrived in 2007.

iPads which debuted in 2010 were based on Tablet PC's the first of which was commercially available was the GRiDPad in 1989 followed by many others.

Steve Jobs vision was to take other people ideas and make them work better for the masses. But nobody seems to recall that all of what he created at Apple had already been seen before. His passing is very sad, but it's not the end of the world or even the end of Apple.

7 months ago: Was Steve Jobs an "Edison" where he made the best of greatest minds in the game, or was he more "stand-alone" in the sense that he developed pretty much just his own ideas?
7 months ago: Was Jobs an Edison for our time?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/06/opinion/is...
sunny2
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7 months ago: The first network began in the late 1960s and was developed in the 1970s to allow gov and university researchers to share information. In the 1980s the Apple II computer made the personal computer industry popular.
Communication started way back in many forms until we got to where we are now. In 1944 computers such as Harvard's Mark put into public service - government owned - the age of Information Science begins.elieve the Government started the internet system. http://inventors.about.com/library/inven...
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7 months ago: Truth if I could answer that too.
I think any great mind that brings us into the future with achievement and new technology advancement stands alone as a brilliant inventor of our times.
7 months ago: "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door" is a phrase attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. It could apply to Steve Jobs as well.

Steve Jobs was able to see what worked and what didn't and put out better devices and services that people could use.

Apple computers have always have been different than traditional IBM PC's. Apple developed a small niche market and a loyal following. Steve Jobs took Xerox's idea of the graphical interface and made it easy to use. In the DOS days you had to type a Command on the Command Prompt like >C: DIR to view a directory of files. With the Macintosh all you had to do was click on a Folder.

The iPod was not the first MP3 Player, but it had a unique design that made it easy to use. Rather than a push button for every function like Play, Stop and such, iPods had a Wheel you could use your thumb to control it. While the Record Industry was slamming Napster, iTunes made it easy to add songs to it.

The iPhone was not first smart phone either, but again building upon a loyal following and introducing the App Store pushed it to the forefront. "There's an App for that" commercials showing what the iPhone could do that the Palm and Blackberry could not do are what set it apart.

The iPad was not the first tablet either, but making it a bigger iPod, iPhone combination helped drive sales as well as the next must have Apple device.

As great as Steve Jobs was, I wonder how much of the innovation was his and how much was the people at Apple. Steve Jobs was the co-founder of Apple, the other co-founder was Steve Wozniak. How much of the Apple I and II was Jobs and how much was Wozniack? Lost in the tributes to Jobs is the fact that he was kicked out of Apple in 1985 and went on co-found Pixar and started a new computer company called NeXT, which Apple ended up buying and naming Jobs Apple CEO in 1996.
7 months ago: Cully,

It is like I said about being like Edison, taking a good thing and making it better, or paying some working stiffs with their jobs on the line... to manufacture the very future on minimum wage...
7 months ago: "Those who worked for Jobs described him as a tyrant they feared meeting in an elevator. "You'd be surprised how hard people work around here," Jobs said in a 2004 interview with Businessweek. "They work nights and weekends, sometimes not seeing their families for a while. Sometimes people work through Christmas to make sure the tooling is just right at some factory in some corner of the world so our product comes out the best it can be."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/tech/innov...
sunny2
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7 months ago: As far as being a tyrant, I would think that people like him out there in the public eye are open game to be exploited, if not worse. It could of been his way of shielding and protecting himself from that type of contact. Anyone who had his intelligence is going to be challenged or criticized constantly. I think that comes with the territory. He probably had another side of him which was charitable.
He did keep a lot of people working, and their jobs demanding. I suppose you can't have everything and be everything to all people. I'm certain many of us have worked for worse or just as bad, but that's our choice.
I knew people who feared going near tall buildings or walking through large, high doors because they were intimidated by the immensity or fear of the power associated with something bigger than themselves.
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7 months ago: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/10/steve-jobs-talked-about-death-in-2005-stanford-commencement-speech-2/?fb_ref=abc-fb-recs

This is an article on Steve Jobs life. He had been adopted. He speaks about his life. Good Article.
7 months ago: My opinion is Steve Jobs improved upon existing ideas, knowing that if they were successful nobody would remember that the idea existed before Apple introduced new product. Everybody seems to think that there was no life before iPod, iPhone and iPad, when in fact there was.

When you think of MP3 players, you think iPod, even though they are not the only MP3 players out there and certainly were not the first ones. Apple developed a better player and software to run it. They then did the same thing with the iPhone and the iPad taking existing technology and making it better and easier to use.
7 months ago: Henry Ford did not invent the automobile. He DID invent the Assembly Line as a process to build them cheaper for the masses.

Steve Jobs did the same thing with MP3 players, cell phones and tablet PC's. He did not invent them, he made them for the masses.
sunny2
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7 months ago: If you ever were around people such as Jobs, you would see that people basically fear them anyway. It is who that person is and his fame, that makes people afraid. They do become insecure because that is out of their reach.
Myself, working in that type of a company, the company will go out to their employees every so often, and ask if anyone has ideas that they can contribute to the invention of some new product. Of course, the company takes complete ownership of it, from that point on. I would think that is business as usual. Jobs was the controlling force behind this, along with, Woziak. Most of these type people have tempers and dominant personalities, but who doesn't. think they are the inventors and achievers in a world of their own makings and not many can achieve that level of fame and fortune.
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