***OT - RIP Steve Jobs***

Goldbully

Apple

keyman64

OMG!

RIP!

blu62vette

lost a great visionary....RIP.

MidLifeCrisis

Damn.

Twinturbo

RIP

hchcoin

56 is too young

relicsncoins

It's unfortunate he did not get to enjoy his retirement. He had a lengthy battle with cancer that finnaly took his life. RIP Mr. Jobs.

ctf_error_coins

I sure hope all his visions for the next 100 years are in apples files.

Let's celebrate his many revolutionary accomplishments for he was a modern day Thomas Edison

BigE

All the money in the world cant stop this cancer disease, it scares me because I have it too. RIP Steve, see you soon----------------BigE

NewEnglandRarities

Terrible....RIP

MercLovin

Buy some AAPL after the dip...

WTCG

Last night I spent the night at my parent's place in Cupertino because I wasn't feeling well yesterday and today happened...

As I stated on Twitter, between this morning's mass shooting at Permanente, the ensuing manhunt with a square mile blocked off and a half dozen helicopters flying overhead all day, today's unusual October weather, residual press coverage from the iPhone 4S announcement and now the Steve Jobs news, this has been one busy day in this west Silicon Valley city of 55,000 technophiles.

Steve Jobs was a true visionary and on behalf of all the people in Silicon Valley we salute him for shaping us into who and what we are today.

Typed from an iPad. Steve would have it no other way.

Coinosaurus

We are all coinheads and understand what the Internet has meant to Heritage.

Now multiply that by a gazillion other industries and you start to get an idea of what this one guy accomplished.

OPA

RIP Steve ... CNBC is running a special on his life.

STONE

jessewvu

Sure is a sad moment for his family.

I hope the flop of the latest iPhone, revealed yesterday, did not have anything to do with it. I read about his death on CNN from my iPhone 4.

partagas

The world lost a great mind today. RIP

Elcontador

My mother died of pancreatic cancer. When I heard Jobs had this disease several months ago, I knew he didn't have much time left. It's unfortunate, but it's certainly no surprise.

pennyholic

Wow so sad, working in the graphic field I had my daughter drink the kool aid at a young age. She loves Mac and Steve is considered a hero to her. She has walked in front of his house in Palo Alto several times and even took and apple from one of his trees in his front yard. His house is about a mile from Stanford and a coin shop I visit, the coin broker. RIP

123cents

Great, great man. RIP!

66Tbird

He change the world. Yet I've never used one of his products. RIP

roadrunner

Sorry to hear this. He was much admired. Pancreatic cancer is a tough one to beat.

roadrunner

SaorAlba

Whether you used his products or not, you no doubt have used something that he somehow influenced with his products. He was a brilliant man who did many great things. I have never owned an Apple computer, but I do use an iPod, and wish I had an iPhone instead of my bleeping Blackberry.

LostSisler

Rest in Peace Steve. Thank-you for all that you did for us...

Wolf359

A modern day Thomas Edison has been lost.

ColonialCoinUnion

I can only imagine what he might have accomplished over the next couple of decades.

MaineJim

Bummer - an era has ended. Sad day. I've been an apple user for 20 years.

Jim

ClosedLoop

cancer is a horrible thing...RIP

secondrepublic

Very sad day for his family, America, and anyone who loves and uses Apple products.

Longtime user of Apple products since the early 1990s... am typing this from my MacBook Air.

ianrussell

Very sad, and at only 56. We're a Mac operation here at GreatCollections and his vision for technology has really changed my life. I remember buying the 1st Gen/original iPod just as I was leaving Australia late 2001 to move overseas. This enabled me to leave my 100s of CDs behind in Australia, while every piece of music I owned was on this small harddrive. The 11 hour flights - having 1000s of songs to choose from. Thank you Mr. Jobs... RIP.

- Ian

mingot

iRip

mrearlygold

RIP

Casey

I never met Steve, nor worked at Apple or even in the computer industry, but feel like a favorite uncle is now gone. My first real computer was an Apple II C and my ipod is a prized possession.

relicsncoins

<< <i>I never met Steve, nor worked at Apple or even in the computer industry, but feel like a favorite uncle is now gone. My first real computer was an Apple II C and my ipod is a prized possession.

>>



My first computer was the Apple II+

GeorgeKellogg

The world has lost a great innovator. From my iPhone, Rest in Peace.

lkeigwin

How sad. I lived and worked in the industry in Silicon Valley for 25 years. Steve was an inspiration, the way he came back to rescue Apple when everyone else had written them off. Steve was a true visionary, a remarkable man of patience, perseverance, and insight. He transformed the world and some day, I hope, his image will be on an enduring commemorative.
Lance.

Dave99B

Not unexpected, but still profoundly sad.

Steve, what an amazing, positive impact you had on the entire world. Rest well, you deserve it.

Dave

notwilight

<< <i>It's unfortunate he did not get to enjoy his retirement. He had a lengthy battle with cancer that finnaly took his life. RIP Mr. Jobs. >>



What retirement? He had enough money to retire at 24. Instead he chose to keep working incessantly (not unlike Bill Gates) and founding new companies and creating new technology. I am not a big fan of his products. I've recently decided to abandon the iphone when my contract allows me to. But I've been reading up a bit about him tonight and he was even greater man than I realized. He announced he had pancreatic cancer (death sentence) in 2004. He didn't retire but seemed to work harder with more urgency. He had a "secret' liver transplant in 2009. He continued to work hard on his baby, the company, as long as he could. Even after he was on medical leave he came back to introduce the Ipad 2 in march.

I was impressed with what I read about his persuasive abilities. He contacted David Hewitt (one of my heros) to ask for parts for a high school science project and ended up landing a summer job. He went to college with no means to pay for it, befriended the dean (as a first semester freshman), and convinced him to let him stay for free. Later he persuaded a retired semiconductor exec (Mike Markkula) to provide the funding that eventually allowed apple to become the most valuable company in the world (briefly). Of course Markkula is now a billionaire himself.

Another ironic story I found tonight. there was a 3rd founder of Apple (Ronald Gerald Wayne) who sold his 10% stake for $800 a couple of weeks after the company was founded. Last we hear of him he was working as an engineer for a defense contractor.

I told my kids tonight that if I were a billionaire I wouldn't work right up to my death like he did. But many of them do. It probably comes with the genetic makup to put them where the were.

Even though I'm not a fan of I-anything or Mac-anything, I realize the interfaces and technologies he developed were adopted widely by the PC industry and I will use his technological achievements for the rest of my life. He was truly a great man.

But I guess it was his controlling nature that drove him to make each product his way and if that's not the way you want it, there was always PCs.

RIP.

--Jerry

Coin Finder

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” — Steve Jobs

notwilight

My twitter feed is 90% Steve Jobs tributes tonight.

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OldEastside

Wow, This man truely Changed our world
RIP Steve, Via Con Dios

Steve

DorkGirl

PinkFloyd

Tremendous loss of a true visionary...truly an Edison of this generation. Thanks for the great run.

Mac Plus from '87 is still chugging along. He may be gone but he's been immortalized in what he left behind.

giorgio11

I had friends who used to work for Apple back in the mid-1980s. I had an Apple II+, an Apple IIc, an Apple IIe, a Fat Mac (forget which one that was), I think I even had a Lisa for about 13 hours before I chucked it as a bad deal. Apple was not only the "computer for the rest of us," it was for many of us the computer for the counterculture, for those who liked to Box Outside the Think. I sadly have no Apple computer today but I have Apple TV, iTunes on my PCs, on and on.

A beautiful man with a beautiful mind. I pray for all who have cancer today (includes some personal friends of mine) and mourn the loss of Steve Jobs. God Bless and say a prayer for those you love today.

Staircoins

<< <i>My first computer was the Apple II+ >>

I had one early on as well. Then an Apple IIe, an Apple IIc, and various Mac models to follow.

RIP, Steve.

johnny9434

what a bummer im sorry to hear about that and best wishes to his family

57loaded

very sad.

his "family" reached far and wide.

gyromac

being a child of the apple revolution and a life longer user it truly is a sad day for the world...

may his memory be eternal

iPhone4(for)S(teve)

LanceNewmanOCC

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i recommend you watch "The Pirates of Silicon Valley" for those of you that have not.

here is a clip i downloaded a couple weeks ago for entrepreneurs and some of his advice - here

It is fun, inspiring and informative.
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mkman123

I think yahoo had a article that he denied his first child with his girlfriend was his and even claimed he was sterile. The mother got on welfare to support the child......way to go Mr jobs!