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RIP Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
Donkbaca:
If you don't think the iPhone changed the world, well than... well good for you I guess. That device has changed my life more than any other product I can think of. I use it ALL the time for a million different things. I have in my hand, a little device that lets me call my wife, video chat with my daughter when I am out of town, it will store hours of music, I can read libraries of books on it. If I am lost, it will tell me where i am and how to get home. If I am out of town and want a mexican restaurant, it well tell where the closest one is and with one click it will call it for me. I can watch movies on it, play games on it. I can buy stocks on it, do my banking on it. I can shoot HD movies on it, take pictures with it and share that stuff with just about anyone around the world in seconds. I can do all this ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- in something that is smaller than a deck of cards in size and only cost me a few hundred bucks. That is some straight up Jetsons space age ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- right there.
Here is what you people don't understand. What matters most is how people interface with their products, design and ease of use are almost, if not more important than capabilities. Don't believe me? Get a linux desktop for your grandma and see how much she uses it. Give her an iPad and she will use the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of it.
When I got my iphone, and I was an early adopter, I remember talking to someone about it and saying, "It doesn't really do a whole lot of things that other smartphones can't do, it just does them better." This is Jobs' genius. The iphone is easy to carry around, does a ton of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, and you can learn how to use it in 5 minutes. He realized that you can have the most capable machine in the universe, but if its a pain in the ass, people won't use it. Get an iPad and see how often you turn on your dektop PC at home. Unless you are a hardcore gamer, you probably never will.
Yeah, there were tablets before, but they were pieces of junk, clunky interfaces, annoying styluses, OSes that weren't optimized for tablet use. The iPad just works well.
Silicon Valley is FULL of people that understand technology, Jobs is one of the very few tech geeks that understood people, and his products have brought people and technology together in a way nobody else ever has. To me that is genius.
Hoopz:
Love him, hate him or look at him with indifference, he definitely did the right thing with Pixar. He bought them, bought into their vision and gave them the freedom to do it their way. That, by itself, is tremendous leadership.
Blanka:
--- Quote from: TopJimmyCooks on October 05, 2011, 08:42:31 pm ---I'm no apple fanboi (who here is, really)
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I WAS a fanboy. After OSX 10.4 it started to wear.
Steves most genuis products IMO (I visited Stylectrical in Hamburg to see all in one room):
- SE/30 (the Plus and Mac 512K were too much a clown machine, the SE/30 made it serious).
- NEXT Cube. WOW, saw it for the first time, but I remember getting the bruchure with the specs back in the day. Damn that was a sexy machine. Especially the optional video board that could be installed.
- G4 Cube
- Powerbook Lombard. Still Apples most sexy laptop ever.
- Macbook AIR. I have to say, the tiny ones in there current lineup are the stars
- MacMini. My personal Apple love. From the illegal 1.5Ghz G4 (my first) to the Core2Duo 9400M version, and now the latest Core i7 (running Windows 7 in my case, since Lion is crap). The best desktop computer ever made.
- And a Strawberry matte iMac for the ladies. Cute machine
- And a 17 inch CRT Cinema display. OMG that beast was mean looking with its matte grey sprayed internals.
Mikezilla:
--- Quote from: Pixelhugger on October 07, 2011, 12:20:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on October 07, 2011, 12:05:33 pm ---I dont get why people are going to apple stores and lighting candles and that he "changed the world". Cmon. ::) I was reading an article that he was compared to Thomas Edison. Really?!
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Agreed. The cult like reverence is ridiculous. I do think that people associate Apple's products with Jobs, as though liking the iPhone equates to liking Steve Jobs. I'm pretty sure most people would not have liked him much personally. Apparently he only agreed to a biography so his kids would know him. Combine that with his paternity denial after getting his girlfriend pregnant in his 20's and turning his back on that responsibility going so far as to lie in court documents that he was sterile.... not exactly the behavior you should hold a candle light vigil for.
I've always been an Apple fan and have had a great deal of respect for Jobs' role in directing product development but to confuse that with the individual is wrong. I thing the Onion put it best with their article on an Apple user acting as thoug his dad just died.
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+100000. :cheers:
@Donk: Yeah it CAN do all that stuff, but do YOU personally use it for all of that?! To be honest, I use mine to text, call, GPS, and read the news on it. Thats it. I dont really think of it as "changing my life" or the world for that matter. Its sole purpose is to be a communications device. I just dont think its genius to take what other people have done and improved on it. If I were to say Jobs was a genius, then I would be referencing marketing ability. My grandma wouldnt use either, she is my grandma, she bakes pies and sews ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
Now, Im not fully educated in Jobs backgroud, but did he actually create any of the technology used in his devices, or does he have a R&D department within Apple? REAL genius/innovation to me, is actually creating those things. If he did, then Ill agree with the masses, that he was in fact a genius.
Yeah, it works well because there were products before it to improve upon. Thats the easy part. Thats in all aspects of business. Look at stupid Hollywood.
He doesnt understand people. Look at what Pixelhugger said. He understands that people are stupid, and that they will buy anything you tell them to buy. Name a person from another company that is the personal face of that company that tells you to buy stuff. Its usually a company, not a face. I feel as though thats what Jobs was, a REALLY good marketing guy. He dumbed the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- down and made it easy to use after watching everyone else fail. Read up on his personal life, I dont really think people should be holding candle light vigils at a store for a person like Jobs. Look who released the info about his death. Apple did, no family member or anything. What does THAT say about a person?
Mikezilla:
--- Quote from: Hoopz on October 07, 2011, 01:24:14 pm ---Love him, hate him or look at him with indifference, he definitely did the right thing with Pixar. He bought them, bought into their vision and gave them the freedom to do it their way. That, by itself, is tremendous leadership.
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I agree with that 100 percent. :cheers:
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