Steve Jobs Has Died
Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a years-long and highly public battle with cancer and other health issues.
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RIP Mr. Jobs, I'm not an Apple fan, but you definitely had a the vision.
ReplyDeleteOMG. I knew he was ill, but this is completely shocking to me. Sympathies to his family, loved ones, and fans. He really was a visionary.
ReplyDeleteBack in 1998, my brother decided to buy me an iMac (the original Bondi Blue version) in order to make me a Mac addict...which was all too successful, although I still don't have an iPod/iPhone/iPad (no money, damn it; the eMac I'm using now is secondhand).
ReplyDeleteRIP, Steve, and thanks for everything...
What an accomplished life! RIP Mr. JOBS.
ReplyDeleteRIP Steve Jobs. Great genius and wonderful soul.
ReplyDeleteWithout him, Microsoft would be our Overlords. I'm glad he's at peace now.
ReplyDeleteI am a PC user, I don't own any Apple products, don't have an iTunes account, and probably never will, but my PC and my phone are both better because they had to compete with Apple, and for that I appreciate Steve Jobs.
ReplyDeleteRev Fred Shuttlesworth, a key figure in the Birmingham Civil Rights movement, also died today. I personally have a lot to thank him for too.
Rest in Peace gentlemen, we are better off because of your courage and vision.
Rest in peace, Steve Jobs. Thank you so much for getting me excited about technology and for changing the world we live in.
ReplyDeleteThe world has lost someone incredibly special today.
ReplyDeleteRIP Steve Jobs - I'm all Apple all the time over here. iphones, macbook, macbookpro, ipodtouch, nanos...
ReplyDeleteVery sorry to see him go.
I am inexplicably saddened this evening at the news even though it's hardly a surprise. RIP Steve. You're probably up wherever the dead people go hanging out with my Mac Evangelist husband, making cracks about Microsoft. I hope you two don't make each other crazy in the afterlife.
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean, Mary. I am deeply saddened as if I personally knew Steve Jobs. He is a man who greatly impacted my life in so many ways. Thank you for that.
ReplyDeleteI was sad when I saw it, on my iPhone. I'm now typing this message on my MacBook Air with my iPod laying on my bed beside me.
ReplyDeleteI like Apple products.
@abigail7881: I thought the same thing. I'm typing this on my Macbook Air, with my iphone charging, my ipod plugged into a set of speakers, and my ipad at my side. I'm in the medical profession and a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is 99.9% of the time a death sentence, so I wasn't surprised. But I heard the news on the way home from work and began to cry. My son idolized Steve Jobs; my world has been made so much larger by his willing ness to bring us along on his Wild Carpet Ride. More than anything, though, I am saddened that disease can take anyone--rich man, poor man---at such a young age. It's the tragedy and the gift of our small allotment of breaths. May all of us use ours wisely.
ReplyDeleteFS, Shuttlesworth went through hell for the cause. He was an amazing guy too.
ReplyDeleteI am a PC user too. I actually dislike Apple computers, but this news made me very sad.
ReplyDeleteisad
ReplyDeleteI too have never touched an Apple product since the Apple IIe, when I was in 6th grade. It's clearly a personal decision. Of course I am sad for anyone's death.
ReplyDeleteI find it ironic as the hippies that are occupying Wall Street are using ipod, ipad and iphone to spread the tweets of Capitalism is evil.
Last I checked, Apple is trading at over $378 a share on the NASDAQ.
Thanks Jobs for your innovation and therefore free market creation of competition, such as the Kindle Fire.
This made me so sad. I hope there will be another visionary like him to push technology along.
ReplyDeletehe was insanely great, maniac, micro-managing prick.
ReplyDeleteHe was fortunate to be so talented and creative, because he was just as much an evil prick. The one counter balanced the other.
ReplyDeleteHe knew he was dyIng for a long time. It is the real reason he sold Pixar to Disney. Steve woud have preferred to have taken over Disney and, given a few more years solo, Pixar probably would have. When he found about about his cancer he knew if he didn't want to leave a messed up estate behind he was going to have to turn illiquid Pixar stock into highly liquid Disney stock. The die was cast.
So sad, he put a good fight for the type of cancer he had (very nasty)...I had hoped he'd beat it. I has a friend who had the same thing and barely lasted 6 months....
ReplyDeleteMy sympathies to his family. this is an enormous loss, what a mind.
Writing from my iPad: I can't appreciate enough how Apple has helped me personally and professionally. Thank you, Steve.
ReplyDeleteI, like others, expected this outcome but am deeply saddened by the news. I would argue that he wasn't just among one of the greatest American CEO's of his time, but that he was one of the greatest visionaries in recent times.
ReplyDeleteIgnoring all of his many other huge accomplishments, this guy actually found a way to make us pay for music again. He really changed the way we live.
ReplyDelete....this was also typed on my ipad
Thank you Steve for your crazy vision and accomplishments. Your Macs got me into art and graphic design.
ReplyDelete3 apples that changed the world - the one that Eve ate, the one that dropped on Newton's head, and the one that Steve built. RIP Steve Jobs.
ReplyDeleteRIP. Steve Jobs will be missed. :-(
ReplyDeletewith all the money in the world you can't buy your health.
ReplyDeleteRIP Mr. Jobs you changed the world forever during your time on earth.
Welcome to iHeaven.
Rip Mr. Jobs
ReplyDeletejobs is the thomas edison of my generation. incredible, extraordinary genius.
ReplyDeleteit's just not fair that people like him die so young. he changed the world.
and how the hell can you 'dislike' macs? come on. it's the most beautiful, intuitive OS there is. windows is clunky and stupid once you use it.
ReplyDeletein the pre-advent of laptop ownership...back in 1990 we had to go to our school's computer lab to get our papers typed up. they had a pc side and a mac side. i went the way of the mac.
ReplyDeletebest. decision. EVER.
my entire life and my entire industry are heavily influenced by SJ's genius, and as a dear friend tweeted last night, 'He was more of a music mogul than our "music moguls". Game changer.'.
from the brilliance of pro tools to the simplicity of ipad...i love this man. from the bottom of my heart and my macbook pro, RIP mr. jobs.
ita, Nancer...and i leave you w/ this:
ReplyDelete“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.”
“I am saddened, not by Microsoft’s success — I have no problem with their success. They’ve earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.”
--Steve Jobs
I can't compete with some of the beautiful tributes already written by y'all - they say it all! Thanks, Mr. Jobs.
ReplyDeleteHe was a genius and truly inspirational leader. RIP, Mr. Jobs.
ReplyDelete"with all the money in the world you can't buy your health."
ReplyDeleteActually, he did - he at least bought himself some time anyways. There's no way that the organ registry would give someone with pancreatic cancer an organ... yet somehow he got one. He bought that new liver somewhere...
Word like icon and visionary get thrown around so much these days, but Steve Jobs was the real deal. He was also hot as hell back in the day. R.I.P. Steve. You've earned it.
ReplyDeleteRIP Steeve because of you there is the color on the computer
ReplyDeleteI've never used an Apple product (very happy with PC) but I'm well aware of how Steve Jobs changed the computer world for the better. He's been compared to Thomas Edison - a bit of a stretch, but close. It's a shame - he will be greatly missed even by those of us who don't use Apple products. His products caused the computer world to be competitive which benefits us all.
ReplyDeleteI am very sadened by his death and I'm taking it a bit too personal, because my father died of the same desease. 80% of pancreatic cancer is discovered on phase 4, when it's too late for treatment. When I saw Steve on CDAN the other time, I thought he looked just like my father on his last days. R.I.P. Steve. Writing that from my iPhone.
ReplyDeleteI remember went on vacation and had no internet on my iPhone. That was so weird, because I was used to it being so much more than just a phone
F*ck cancer.
ReplyDelete"... other health issues"? Are you confirming what I think you're confirming? Beware the wrath of Apple Fan/b/oys; something tells me they'll not take kindly to any deviation from the iGod's established hagiography. Assange is better suited for internet martyrdom.
ReplyDeleteJobs's life was, to me, the very definition of a disciplined, purpose-driven existence. Of potential realised. RiP Mr. Jobs.
AprilinParis: Do share what you think Enty's confirming. Some of us here have no clue.
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