We Will Always Remember Steve
7Steve Jobs, the iconic former Apple CEO, has passed away. Steve was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004. Unfortunately, he was not able to beat his illness. The following statement was posted to Apple’s website:
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Regardless of how one feels about Apple products, this is a very sad news for the tech industry. Steve Jobs made immense contributions to our industry and will be remembered as an icon. If you would like to share your thoughts, memories, and condolences with Apple, please use the email provided by Apple: rememberingsteve@apple.com.
Reactions are pouring in but the fact remains: we all will miss Steve Jobs. May he rest in peace.
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The world has lost a true icon Mr Jobs change the world as we knew it there will never an
other man and genius like him his genius will be with us far into the future. R.I.P Mr Jobs.
@Robert. I completely agree. He will be missed.
I hope one day people who loved a myth will have the courage to try to get a more balanced picture of SJ & Apple. The data is out there, but you won't find it in advocacy ghettos.
You mean issues regarding Apple workers? Or how some of these products were developed?
Everytime silly ahistorical claims about Apple are refuted the mass-media then promulgates new innacurate claims. Apple products were usually among the best when they came out, but they were rarely the first & rarely the biggest selling. The recent coverage even keeps promulgating the "company started in a garage" & 2 founders mistatements. These aren't important but show how little research was done; even Wikipedia is MUCH better than that.
And if all the praise of SJ when he was powerful& when he was sick & dead is true, why isn't theportrayals in the 1980s, when they had less to fear from offending him. MANY unrelated people who dealt with him in the 1970s & 1980s consistent portrayed a delude tantrum throwing vindictive mega-maniacal fraudulent sociopath (at the time at least). Which conspiracy is more likely? I'm not trying to troll, just encourage people to look outside advocacy propaganda. I've postponed writing much about this 'cause SJ was ill & don't like to do it now but problem is, many folk have heard 3-4x more SJ propaganda the last few days than ever b4 & may never look even at Wikipedia.
Working conditions are appalling for ALL price competitive products, though many of us would pay a bit more if it went to factory ventilation & safety specs etc.
If you want to read about prophets & creators of modern IT, try Doug Engelbart, Alan Kay, Vannevar Bush, Trevor Pearcey, Ted Nelson, William Grey Walter, Countess Ada Lovelace & many more far more important than SJ. Apple was 1 of many conduits from their R&D into products in shops.
There MAY have been many in IT as loved & admired as Steve, eg Fred Terman, Woz, Doug Engelbart, Jay Miner, HP's Bill & Dave. There MAY have been many as hated, eg Jack Tramiel, Ali Mehdi, Bill Gates. Has anyone been as high on both lists? Richard Stallman in smaller numbers perhaps?
Isn't anyone going to call me an "Apple-Hater" (true) or Microsoftie (untrue) or say I'm jealous of Apple (untrue). I'm prepared to consider credible evidence that I'm wrong to consider Jobs an overrated mythologized (con)artist who obsessed about the appearance of things but cared little about real functionality or value.
(I don't consider websites exclusively populated by Apple polishers to be a credible source. Is that what iPhoneness wants to be?)