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RIP Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

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Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on October 06, 2011, 05:59:07 am ---Yes, because being an amazingly successful CEO is childs play  ::)

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Gotta have something to sell to be a CEO.  Without Woz, he wouldn't have had anything to sell.

lordnacho:

--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on October 06, 2011, 08:11:14 am ---Gotta have something to sell to be a CEO.  Without Woz, he wouldn't have had anything to sell.

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Woz spoke at my company recently.  Before it, I felt sort of bad for him being booted out and all, didn't know all the details.  But after I realized Woz was the one who loved technology and Jobs was the one who wanted to make money off of it.  I was(and am) a long time Apple hater yet have their products scattered around my home.  Just goes to show how good of a salesman Jobs was.

Vigo:
Yeah, Jobs was a salesman. In the last 15 years, we have seen apple transform from a company name into a brand name. Not that their products are bad, but they are not as innovative as people make them out to be. Tablet PC's were around long before the iPad, it is just that people didn't realize they needed them until Apple told the world that they needed the iPad. I have to get them credit for marketing a product like none other, but that is pure salesmanship.

Oh, and I jumped ship from Apple when the iMac came out. If they couldn't figure out a mouse needed more than one button by the late 90's, then they were not the face of technology innovation.  ::)

lordnacho:
Yeah that was pretty bad and was probably was one of the reasons I didn't like them either, but slowly their mobile devices settled me down enough to let my wife get a Macbook then iPad.  I was going to take the Macbook over and install Win7 on it for my side gig/dev work, just didn't like the feel of it so gave up.  Dumb apple key gets in the way.

HaRuMaN:
Last Apple product I used was a Macintosh SE...  lol

I did get my start computing on an Apple II and Commodore 64.

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