What a sad day. We have lost an amazing mind. RIP Mr. Jobs.
That should be played at his funeral.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
I credit him with forging the PC market into what it was, is and will become. He’s up there, somewhere, in the iCloud now.
What a life. At the same time, I sense that he faced death a little differently than how most of us conceive it. He seemed very spiritual and his 2005 speech at Stanford tackled death head on Always innovating, that Steve.
May the rest of the ride, wherever it takes you, be insanely great, Steve.
“Despite all he accomplished, it feels like he was just getting started.”
- Disney CEO Robert Iger
As an Apple hater:
RIP Steve. You were a genius and a visionary. 56 is too damn young. The world has lost a brilliant thinker and innovater.
Condolences.
I wanted to be in this thread,
Like all those who had a great impact, a complex person with flaws and faults that were sometimes inexcusable, along with the great achievements that could not be denied. For those of us who were able to live through the arc of this story it was sometimes puzzling, always fascinating.
BTW - in an example of contributions beyond the obvious,Tim Berners-Lee wrote that his original development of the WWW browser was eased by working in the NeXT system, a Jobs product. seems like one could paraphrase what he wrote there as saying “it just worked”…
I had suspected Jobs’ withdrawal from CEO in August meant that he saw he was running out of time, so it’s not a shock. But it is a shame, one does wonder what would have been next.
YouTube video of his 2005 commencement address and text of the same.
I’m more of a Woz fan, but I still feel a great loss.
Here’s to the crazy ones indeed
Brian
When I set out on my latest adventure my girlfriend sent me this, in which Steve talked about mortality:
Thank you for that Steve.
Rest in Peace, Steve.
Apple was a big part of my childhood.
Very sad. I’m glad he was able to keep doing what he loved right up until the end.
Tributes:
A story that, to me, epitomizes Mr. Jobs. Asking for the impossible, getting it, and being aesthetically correct. The Reality Distortion Field in action.
www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.txt
I still remember all of us arguing over who got to use the computer with the color! monitor in the school’s improvised computer lab when I was in second grade. Apple IIs. Classic machines. First computers I ever used. I expect this is true of an awful lot of people around my age.
I don’t know why this surprised me so much, but it did. Thanks, Steve. All those hours playing Oregon Trail? Were awesome. As is my iPod.
My first computer was the Mac, in 1984. What a marvel it was. RIP Steve Jobs.
In the same vein as how rappers will “pour out a little liquor” to honor the dead, I propose that everyone delete an app from their phone today in memory of Mr. Jobs.
The whole internet should go quiet for a minute of tribute.
1984, in Switzerland, teaching kids how to do BASIC on the lab full of AppleIIe computers. It was the future.
Then the following year I bought the AppleIIc and thought it was the coolest, sleekest thing I had ever seen for the $1000 it cost me.
I eventually moved over to the (cheaper) PC’s, but this walk down memory lane is thanks to Steve Jobs. He broke the ice, he made it accessable and he led the way.
Thank you Mr. Jobs for changing everything.
And thanks too for being a geek, but a geek with a true sense of style and design!