aardvark15 said:

He did Pixar!!!!!

Yes, he acquired Pixar in '86 from a division of George Lucas' Lucasfilm.

Identity said:

aardvark15 said:

He did Pixar!!!!!

Yes, he acquired Pixar in '86 from a division of George Lucas' Lucasfilm.

Wow.

Saddened by the news. He's had an unbelievable impact.

It wasn't cancer that killed him. It was the audible yawn he heard from the world yesterday when the iPhone 4S and not an iPhone 5 was announced.

But at least he didn't kill off the iPod Classic.

R.I.P.

errant said:

It wasn't cancer that killed him. It was the audible yawn he heard from the world yesterday when the iPhone 4S and not an iPhone 5 was announced.

But at least he didn't kill off the iPod Classic.

R.I.P.

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Spinlight said:

errant said:

It wasn't cancer that killed him. It was the audible yawn he heard from the world yesterday when the iPhone 4S and not an iPhone 5 was announced.

But at least he didn't kill off the iPod Classic.

R.I.P.

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This might come off a bit forced, but I thought this article was at least somewhat interesting. It's about what Jobs' legacy might teach those of us in theologically related fields. Makes some sense, too...

http://kwokpuilan.blogspo...teach.html

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I was really shocked to hear this I just came home after trying out a family friends new ipad 2 and enjoying it to come to this news. 56 is so young, RIP

RIP

The Thomas Edison of our time.

With all my respect: CNN even credits him for inventing the PC:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/us/obit-steve-jobs/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of the personal computer and of navigating them by clicking onscreen images with a mouse. In more recent years, he introduced the iPod portable music player, the iPhone and the iPad tablet -- all of which changed how we consume content in the digital age.

Wow, that's even more than I thought [I thought the idea for the PC came about a decade earlier - see History at http://en.wikipedia.org/w..._computer]

Interesting how many comments critical or just not praising Jobs on that CNN page get deleted by CNN...

Anyway, peace to him now.

I'm a 48 year old programmer. I became interested in computers around the time I started High School in 1976. Back then computers filed rooms. After a couple of years of using a terminal the school had to the city's only computer, and hanging out at the local computer store, I talked my parents into buying me my own computer, an Apple 2. I remember being worried before I got it. In those days, there was a lot of secrecy and securyty around computers. You had to pass a test before they even let you use one at school, and even then your access was quite limited. Programming was completely off limits until you passed another test. I was worried while I waited for my computer - what if it has the same limited access. Imagine my pleasant surprise when it not only let me do whatever I wanted, it actually came with the complete assembly language source code to all of the built in programming as well as the full schematics that showed how it was built.

I spent the whole summer staying up late at night teaching myself to program with that computer, then used it the whole time in college where I got my computer science degree. I graduated college in 1983 and got a job as a programmer at a physics department at NASA where I wrote software for their mini-computer to run many of their experiments and process/image the results. In my spare time at home I was hard at work on software to use the graphics mode of an Apple 2 to allow word processing where lower case characters would display as the original apple 2 computers didn't have lower case letters. Between the fact that I had just received a degree in computer science (and had received a perfect score on the computer science GRE), had a job at NASA, and was making good progress on my word processor project, I thought I had a pretty good handle on computer programming.

Then on January 24, 1984, I went to that same computer store I bought my Apple 2 at to see the debut of Macintosh. My jaw dropped. I couldn't believe what they had done and the work they had to have put into it to make it work the way it did. Native bit mapped display with pretty much everything modern computers have today (except multitasking). A night and day difference from what came before it. That day changed my life. To this day I wish I could have been a part of that team that built Macintosh and changed the world.

From having the vision to turn Steve Wozniak's personal project into a company, to demanding perfection from the Macintosh team, to transforming the music industry, to transforming the phone industry, to reinventing computer animation, Steve Jobs accomplished a lot in his far too brief life.

For me, the feeling of amazement and disbelief I had on January 24, 1984 will always stand out to me as my best memory of his life. That was Steve's passion, to build products that changed the world.

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SoLiDiFy said:

V10LETBLUES said:

He devoted his life creating products that have made a major positive impact on humanity. That's a lot more most people.

Maybe American workers are more important than workers of other parts of the world to you, as is making a big hoopla every time he makes a donation so you can piously clap from home, but he did not seem like that type to me. You do not know his personal donation tally, so it best to know what you speak of, before being disrespectful.

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I will never ever really know and neither will you. That is why i said "I" see him defferently. But here's someone else who seems to know a little more than me http://www.wired.com/gadg...6/01/70072

[Edited 10/5/11 18:19pm]

How nice of you to share this; I suppose you would be okay with someone dropping by one of your relatives' funeral just to say it is to bad he died but he didn't contribute enough t charity nor help create jobs in America.

Seriously your opinion is your opinion but there is a time and a place.

Someone needs to Sticky this...

We all owe this man.

alandail said:

I'm a 48 year old programmer. I became interested in computers around the time I started High School in 1976. Back then computers filed rooms. After a couple of years of using a terminal the school had to the city's only computer, and hanging out at the local computer store, I talked my parents into buying me my own computer, an Apple 2. I remember being worried before I got it. In those days, there was a lot of secrecy and securyty around computers. You had to pass a test before they even let you use one at school, and even then your access was quite limited. Programming was completely off limits until you passed another test. I was worried while I waited for my computer - what if it has the same limited access. Imagine my pleasant surprise when it not only let me do whatever I wanted, it actually came with the complete assembly language source code to all of the built in programming as well as the full schematics that showed how it was built.

I spent the whole summer staying up late at night teaching myself to program with that computer, then used it the whole time in college where I got my computer science degree. I graduated college in 1983 and got a job as a programmer at a physics department at NASA where I wrote software for their mini-computer to run many of their experiments and process/image the results. In my spare time at home I was hard at work on software to use the graphics mode of an Apple 2 to allow word processing where lower case characters would display as the original apple 2 computers didn't have lower case letters. Between the fact that I had just received a degree in computer science (and had received a perfect score on the computer science GRE), had a job at NASA, and was making good progress on my word processor project, I thought I had a pretty good handle on computer programming.

Then on January 24, 1984, I went to that same computer store I bought my Apple 2 at to see the debut of Macintosh. My jaw dropped. I couldn't believe what they had done and the work they had to have put into it to make it work the way it did. Native bit mapped display with pretty much everything modern computers have today (except multitasking). A night and day difference from what came before it. That day changed my life. To this day I wish I could have been a part of that team that built Macintosh and changed the world.

From having the vision to turn Steve Wozniak's personal project into a company, to demanding perfection from the Macintosh team, to transforming the music industry, to transforming the phone industry, to reinventing computer animation, Steve Jobs accomplished a lot in his far too brief life.

For me, the feeling of amazement and disbelief I had on January 24, 1984 will always stand out to me as my best memory of his life. That was Steve's passion, to build products that changed the world.

[Edited 10/5/11 21:31pm]

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Reacts To Jobs Death

Oct 05, 2011

Steve Wozniak, who started Apple in a Silicon Valley garage with Steve Jobs in 1976, said he'll miss his fellow co-founder "as much as everyone."

"We've lost something we won't get back," he said in an interview with The Associated Press following Jobs' death on Wednesday.

"The way I see it, though, the way people love products he put so much into creating means he brought a lot of life to the world."

Wozniak, a high school friend of Jobs', last saw him about three months ago, shortly after Jobs emerged from a medical leave to unveil Apple Inc.'s iCloud content syncing service and the latest version of its iOS mobile software. At the time, Wozniak said, Jobs looked ill and sounded weak.

Wozniak, 61, said Jobs was a good husband and father and a great businessman who had an eye for details. He said Jobs was a good marketer and understood the benefits of technology. His string of hits includes the Apple II and Macintosh computers, iPod music players, the iPhone and the iPad tablet computer.

When it came to Apple's products, "while everyone else was fumbling around trying to find the formula, he had the better instincts," he said.

After dropping out of Reed College in Portland, Ore., Jobs returned to California in 1974, where he attended meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club — a group of computer hobbyists — with Wozniak.

Wozniak's homemade computer drew attention from other enthusiasts, but Jobs saw its potential far beyond the geeky hobbyists of the time.

The pair started Apple Computer Inc. in Jobs' parents' garage in 1976. According to Wozniak, Jobs suggested the name after visiting an "apple orchard" that Wozniak said was actually a commune.

Wozniak and Jobs both left Apple in 1985. In Jobs' case, it followed a clash with then-CEO John Sculley. Jobs resigned his post as chairman of the board and left Apple after being pushed out of his role leading the Macintosh team.

Jobs returned in 1997 as interim CEO after Apple, then in dire financial dire straits, bought Next, a computer company he started.

According to Wozniak, Jobs told him around the time he left Apple in 1985 that he had a feeling he would die before the age of 40. Because of that, "a lot of his life was focused on trying to get things done quickly," Wozniak said.

"I think what made Apple products special was very much one person, but he left a legacy," he said. Because of this, Wozniak hopes the company can continue to be successful despite Jobs' death.

http://www.google.com/hos...1d227e812e

R.I.P. Steve.... We'll all miss you. Thank you for all of your gifts.

It is not every day that a religious leader dies.

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r.i.p.

Layzie said:

RIP

The Thomas Edison of our time.

Oh please. Eddison didn't take a light bulb that already existed and market it better.

RIP Mr Jobs, a huge part of PC development, but lets not overplay his role. His genius was as a salesman.

The cult of Mac is reacting like the cult of MJ. iphone vigils, I mean, really????

My thoughts are with his family. 56 is no age to die.

I just hope when he got the call from God he wasn't using an iphone 4 and failed to get a signal.

From one fellow Buddhist to another, may your next birth be grand.

SquirrelMeat said:

Layzie said:

RIP

The Thomas Edison of our time.

Oh please. Eddison didn't take a light bulb that already existed and market it better.

it's true that Jobs/Apple didn't invent GUIs, the mouse, MP3-Players, Smartphones or the Tablet PC but you know.... the light bulb? Edison also used technology that was there before him and brought it to perfection...

The first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy, an English scientist. He experimented with electricity and invented an electric battery. When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. This is called an electric arc.

Much later, in 1860, the English physicist Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914) was determined to devise a practical, long-lasting electric light. He found that a carbon paper filament worked well, but burned up quickly. In 1878, he demonstrated his new electric lamps in Newcastle, England.

In 1877, the American Charles Francis Brush manufactured some carbon arcs to light a public square in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. These arcs were used on a few streets, in a few large office buildings, and even some stores. Electric lights were only used by a few people.

The inventor Thomas Alva Edison (in the USA) experimented with thousands of different filaments to find just the right materials to glow well and be long-lasting. In 1879, Edison discovered that a carbon filament in an oxygen-free bulb glowed but did not burn up for 40 hours. Edison eventually produced a bulb that could glow for over 1500 hours.

RIP Mr Jobs, a huge part of PC development, but lets not overplay his role. His genius was as a salesman.

much like Edison. his real job was done by employees not himself, he just contributed the name to the patents he held. his popular picture is anything but accurate

Thomas Edison is known as the world’s greatest inventor, the mind behind everything from the light bulb to the electric car. His record output – 1,093 patents – still amazes us, over a century later. How could one man invent so much? Short answer: he didn’t. Apart from his pet project, the phonograph, most Edison inventions were the work of unsung technicians, who toiled in the unsafe conditions of his laboratories and factories, so that Edison could take credit and get the patent. He was your classic Dickensian employer, paying as little as he could get away with paying. His move in 1876 to his famous laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, was partly prompted by a strike of his workers, which made him desperate to escape the trade unions of New York City.

OK, Edison was a visionary -– like Leonardo Da Vinci, whose sketches of airplanes and armored tanks could not take form until the technology existed, centuries after his death. Of course, Leonardo didn’t have a team behind him. Without his engineers, Edison would have been no more an “inventor” than H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, or any other great visionary science-fiction writer.

Still, Edison’s name is still synonymous with invention -– proof that, generally, his publicity worked. It wasn’t what he knew; it was whom he knew. As Jack Stanley, curator of the Thomas Edison Museum in Menlo Park, once told me: “He was brilliant enough to realize that he wasn’t brilliant.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-juddery/overrated-people_b_688237.html#s129489&title=Thomas_Edison

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SquirrelMeat said:

Layzie said:

RIP

The Thomas Edison of our time.

Oh please. Eddison didn't take a light bulb that already existed and market it better.

RIP Mr Jobs, a huge part of PC development, but lets not overplay his role. His genius was as a salesman.

The cult of Mac is reacting like the cult of MJ. iphone vigils, I mean, really????

My thoughts are with his family. 56 is no age to die.

I just hope when he got the call from God he wasn't using an iphone 4 and failed to get a signal.

I think the following insights from an article mentioning Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are telling:

"Wozniak's homemade computer drew attention from other enthusiasts, but Jobs saw its potential far beyond the geeky hobbyists of the time."

"According to Wozniak, Jobs told him around the time he left Apple in 1985 that he had a feeling he would die before the age of 40. Because of that, "a lot of his life was focused on trying to get things done quickly," Wozniak said."

He was a genius because he was a MASSIVE dreamer and he had the audacity and self motivation to rise above ALL other competition. He was so driven to make things not just adequate, but to exceed all expectations.

He may have not come up with all the ideas but he was certainly the energy and driving force that pushed his team to refine and create products that have become THE STANDARD. Not once, but several times over several decades.

You'd be hard pressed to name anyone else in the technology field in our lifetime, who has led a company to achieve such amazing innovation and influence over everyone else in the technology sector.

Can you imagine what state our phones and computers would be in without this man pushing boundaries over the last 3 decades? I'd expect well behind where we are at.

What a life he lived.

Was he God? He made lots of money for people, this is the only reason we care about him. Others die in the shadows.

The Pentagon pretty much funded computers during the cold war. He was helped by loads of government research. I bet the reporters who cry at his alter will not mention that.

Sure, death that young is tragic, but it had to be said.

2freaky4church1 said:

Was he God? He made lots of money for people, this is the only reason we care about him. Others die in the shadows.

The Pentagon pretty much funded computers during the cold war. He was helped by loads of government research. I bet the reporters who cry at his alter will not mention that.

Sure, death that young is tragic, but it had to be said.

Must you ALWAYS be like this? You cant say... Damn, Im glad he did what he did for technology cuz I dont know WHAT id do without my ipod?

Sheesh..

I don't have an i-pod.

As a Christian I prayed for his soul.