Steve RIP

[mrbigstuff]

"The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely."
— Bill Gates

wired.com

[Winston]

I was OK until I watched one of the videos. Macs have been part of my life since 1984.

As someone who has often struggled to figure out where to make an effort in my life, Steve Jobs' life really is an inspiration. He didn't just want things done well, but done so they were "insanely great". I hope his message continues to drive Apple and many others for a long time. The world is better for it.


Mr. Mac is dead. Long live the Mac (and all the iDevices).

- Winston

[Panopticon]

RIP Steve, you made us all think different.

[decay]

this mosaic art is cool:

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Happy-bir...ve/1041025

[RAMd®d]

gl, thanks for the quote. It was indeed nicely done.


I rather like this picture of him. Humanizes him and brings him back down to Earth.

In *our* minds.

I have no doubts he was well grounded long before that picture was taken.

It does much to counter the typical disparaging comments made by people who think they know/knew Jobs without ever having met him.

That All Things D video was great, although the full length version was even better. (I could have done without Uncle Walty, though.) There were a lot more interesting quips, especially by Jobs. It shows how quick he is on his feet, so to speak.

One of my favorite parts is Bill Gates trying to tell the story about how some MS code ended up in a "special edition" Apple. After faltering for a few seconds, trying to start the story, Gates is interrupted by Jobs "Let me tell the story..."

That really cracked me up.

[mrbigstuff]

One of my favorite parts is Bill Gates trying to tell the story about how some MS code ended up in a "special edition" Apple. After faltering for a few seconds, trying to start the story, Gates is interrupted by Jobs "Let me tell the story..."

I have to admit to being a bit wide-eyed at how much Steve chokes up toward the end of the video. It's as if he knows that that may be one of his last times with Bill in that sort of setting.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

One part of Insanely Great is gone. I wonder if he ever talked to his birth father....

[mrlynn]

Posted this on a HotAir thread,

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/05/br...ead-at-56/

which (as usual) has both laudatory and snarky comments:

I bought my first Mac on release day in 1984. Steve Jobs will go down as one of America’s greatest inventors, and joins the ranks of Bell, Edison and Singer. Long live Apple.
Jocundus on October 5, 2011 at 9:02 PM

Agree entirely.

We had an IBM PC-XT in the office where I worked back in 1984. I could not for the life of me fathom what was going on in the thing, which had to be accessed with arcane white-letter commands on a green screen.

Then in 1987 a new employee insisted on a Macintosh SE. She knew a ‘Mac designer’ who could do layouts and typography on the screen, without pasteboards and Linotronic typesetters. Even a used SE at that time was quite expensive, but we got one, with a 20 MB hard drive. It was a revelation to me; the Graphical User Interface opened the door to me with the desktop metaphor, on which one could see the various drives and their hierarchical contents. I never looked back, getting more SEs, toting one in a large shoulder bag on trips. I learned desktop publishing, spreadsheets, and databases, and of course abandoned my typewriters; I ran a small business on that computer, later graduating to Mac IIs and the others to come. I’m writing this on my gorgeous iMac 27", running Snow Leopard.

Yes, Steve and company borrowed ideas for the Macintosh from a Xerox lab, but the team that developed the Mac under his direction produced innovation after innovation. Read Steven Levy’s Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything.

Steve Jobs changed everything for me.

/Mr Lynn

[$tevie]

rgG wrote:
I wonder if this is why Tim Cook and the others were somewhat subdued yesterday. They had to have known the time was near.

That occurred to me as well.

[Spiff]

I have been expecting this for the past several months. Did not make the news any easier. Kinda blind sided me. And yes, I almost cried. However, I was in the men's locker room at Gold's Gym...

RIP Mr. Jobs.

Leader.