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***OT - RIP Steve Jobs***
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RIP!
Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner.
Let's celebrate his many revolutionary accomplishments for he was a modern day Thomas Edison
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.
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Now multiply that by a gazillion other industries and you start to get an idea of what this one guy accomplished.
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.
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<< <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+
Lance.
Steve, what an amazing, positive impact you had on the entire world. Rest well, you deserve it.
Dave
<< <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
RIP Steve, Via Con Dios
Steve
Mac Plus from '87 is still chugging along. He may be gone but he's been immortalized in what he left behind.
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.
<< <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.
his "family" reached far and wide.
may his memory be eternal
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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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